I know what you are thinking.

This morning I woke up and had a stroke of genius.

For months I have been driving myself nuts trying to decide on what to do with my exhaust. I already have the y-pipe, 5th gen muffler.... was thinking about a b-pipe.

Then I recently decided to bite it and pay for an SP2. Great exhaust from what I have seen and heard. But (1) I don't want another car with permanent fart-pipe appearance (2) The gredddy isn't quite loud enough to scare women and children, but it is too loud for commuting at the same time.

So I googled "electronic exhaust cut-out". Low and behold... the first link was to an IS300 owner in my hometown. I'm sure I probably ran into him at this summer's www.seloc.net meet. Kind of suprised me too.

Link with pics: http://club.lextasy.com/ftopict-831.html


I talked to him, and I talked to the shop that did the work. $110 for the entire assembly, another $150 to install it.

That leaves me a great deal of spending money compared to say, buying a $600 cat-back w/o shipping or custom fabrication included.

Which brings me to part 2 of my plan. An AK-47.



It really doesn't have much to do with my car, but I think they are hella cool.



Cliff Notes:

I'll probably be going to jail soon.

 

right..........

 

I thought you would like it.

 

you could even have your trigger switch on your shift **** with "go baby go" written around it!

id rather have an sp2...

 

Well good luck getting it to fit. There isn't enough room on the underside of the 4th gen for the whole assembly to fit. I got the actual cutout welded into a test pipe, and have it facing towards the drivers side of the car, since the 3 bolts that hold it in only allow for turns of 120 degrese (sp?). The cutout fits fine, but when I tried to install my electric motor on the end of the cutout the motor wouldn't fit. Basically, the underbody needs to be banged upwards, and parts of the flange/motor need to be trimmed. It's do-able, but it will require some custom work and time. Good luck man.

 

at you

 

NOWHERE?

From the y-pipe to the muffler there is no place that it will fit???

I figured they would have to fabricate some stuff... Hmmm maybe I will take the car up there first for them to look at it.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

you die! you go to hell and you die!


ScarfaceTHX- Well, in the 15" or so of the test pipe, there are no other place for it to fit. If I move it down the cat-back, I would lose some of the gains from it, plus it's already welded into the test pipe.