This. I always understood as well you see more benefits from Ethanol on forced induction.
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This. I always understood as well you see more benefits from Ethanol on forced induction.
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The gas mileage comment had nothing to do with cost. Its a matter of being annoying. Case in point, me and few friends go for a cruise/fun-run. We can't go more than 100 miles with cruising/playin-around because all of my buddies in the E85/Meth Z06s physically run out of fuel. It gets annoying have to fuel the car up twice as often and also to be tied to ethanol, which isn't as widely available as people may think.
Car sounds SICK! I've had a few gen 2 & 3 vipers a couple with exhaust and the sound was always lacking...yours is not. Nice!One more fun little upgrade.
I always felt like the catted Belanger setup was amazing in tone, and the perfect sound level at WOT. The only thing I wished was that it would give me a bit more chop at idle now that the car was HC (the cats really mute out the idle chop). That, and I've always wanted the possibility of spitting flames on fools on the freeway LOL. So on a whim, we got Lou to ship out their new 3" catless setup to replace my existing 2.5" catted system.
I've run Belangers on my last 3 Vipers and no other exhaust sounds like it on these cars, just really enjoy their smooth bellowy sound. After pulling the new setup of the box I could see there had been some worthwhile improvements to their kit. First off, they've really stepped up the overall build quality of the system, and I particularly like their novel secondary 02 bung placements--right at the tip exits. They did this for 2 reasons; (1) it is the only location that welding a bung into the free stream doesn't take away the cross sectional area (still full 3" there), and (2) It let's you tuck up all of the 02 extensions up into the chassis and keep them away from the high heat areas, only getting anywhere close to the exhaust at the outlets. Secondly, I like how they've integrated the mid-pipes into the catback itself, just one less connection to make/worry about.
In for surgery;
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Existing header-back removed;
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Look at that pickle!
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Onto the goodies;
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Laying out the new 3" (left) vs the removed 2.5" catted setup (right).
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2.5" vs 3" outlets
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Perty muffler, er, resonator
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New tips, notice the secondary 02 bung placement;
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Very nice flow area even with that bung;
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All buttoned up, here's a quick vid, the car is still not warmed up so its on a high idle (hasn't settled into the full chop yet). A few quick revs to 3k rpm. Car is MUCH louder, but still maintains that belanger tone that I like. I didn't get an opportunity to drive it yet as a storm rolled in directly after we took the idle vid. Will report back on whether its obnoxious or not, and whether or not I can actual smell the loss of cats (which is honestly my largest concern).
Was wondering about the r888s...i have Pirelli p zeros now and they suck. Car spins all 4 tires like crazy. What are your thoughts on the r888s?I have no idea, I never look at tread ratings. I can tell you I squeezed about 10,000 miles out of my R888s last go-around with A LOT of racing (but no burn-outs, dumb shit, etc).
^^ You have to be happy as shit with that! Outstanding