So I just bought Megan Racing headers for my MCS and yes it is the one that deletes the catalytic converter. I probably should have asked this before I bought them but will it make a tin can noise? Or will it make it more bassy? I have a Borla Race exhaust on the car and would love to enhance the already deep sound.
- Thanks!!

 

I have had them installed for about 2 weeks. Resonator is pretty much melted out and it sounds F&@KING awesome!! It has a little backfire and actually you can feel the bottom end power.

 

Great to hear, I was alittle nervous about them but am glad to hear that. I am getting the car tuned in a couple weeks so hopefully itll give it even more power

Thank you for the info!

 

Putting a stainless header and catless exhaust on a 1.6L SOHC supercharged motor will never be 'bassy'. It will be loud, but never bassy. The change in header material, primary tube length, and absence of a cat will make the exhaust raspy compared to it's previous sound.

 

yeah mine isn't bassy, but it is loud but only during WOT. It sounds like Honda B20 motor on crack.

 

Same here.

 

Yea I have had them installed for a little over 2 weeks now, I'm happy with them, they unleash the cars inner beast WOT But I have a small fitment issue, where the deleted cat and cat-back meet, did any of you have a hard time connecting them? There is a small gap and the gasket rattles just a little... any suggestions?
-Thank you all!

 

i had that as well. I had to completely adjust my exhaust and I got it to squeeze together. I put new bolts in the place of the old rusty ones and used a couple of washers. Fixed the problem. Hope you can get it to work.

 

Ok, thank you so much!

 

Can you all more details on how you got the header to mate up with the rest of the exhaust? I already had the Borla S-Type with resonator installed and I am trying to add the Megan Racing Header with the test pipe. Problem is it looks like the down pipe is about 2 inches too short because to have any chance of the two mating, the resonator would have top be pushed about that far through the floor pan.
I guess if I deleted the resonator and added a straight pipe I could get it too work but I really don't want to do that. I have even chopped up the original manifold and a Magna Flow header trying to piece and part something together but I do not like how it is turning out.
I sent a video to Megan Racing on Friday showing them the problem but I bet they will come back with an "it would fit a factory cat-back just fine" type of response.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

I have the Borla Race exhaust so I don't know if the resonator is different, but what I did was use a jack to push the resonator up to just fit on the header ( it is a very tight fit and has no flexibility at all ) Then I allowed the car to run, and rev it a lot to get the header and resonator very hot and carefully adjusted and tightened the whole piece together, I have not had any problems yet.

It is kind of disappointing however, you would think a Megan Racing piece would be more reliable. I hope this helps

 

Not sure of the difference either. Mine is about 6 inches in diameter. Is yours closer to being a strait pipe?

 

I talked to Megan and they simply said to send back the header for a refund. They didnt seem interested at all in trying to figure out what was wrong woth the build and come up with a fix. If it werent that right now it is hard to find a header for my Mini that isnt going to cost me $800 - $1600 I would have sent it back but instead I ended up taking the cat off of the broken MagnoFlow exhaust and then I welded a cuople of very odd angled flanges on it and got it too fit. It aont the prettyest thing but it got me going for $200 rather than $800.

 

OBX unit is inexpensive and performs fairly well.

 

Yea... that was actually my first choice but I could not find them in stock anywhere. Best I could find was that they would be available sometime in March. Actually found the same with the Megan header but ended up finding a new one on eBay.