First Impressions with different mods

[curly2k3]

welll, as much as i am sure you will all hate it, i have modded my svx, some would say ricely, but i disagree. it started with the BBS's, now i have an intake that we rigged to work and full out exhaust...the intake made a huge difference, i went from a cotton K&N to a dual coned filter, and then we proceded to modify my buddy's ram air for his 2.0 Jetta(now WRX powered) and got it all leak free and working great. this mod seemed to help across the board, the power seemed better in all RPS, however it was a tad bit louder. next to come was full exhuast, being MN with no emissions we decided to go all out, we expect this to become somewaht of a track car so, yeah... um, we started it all buy creating a custom 2 into 1 Y pipe, 2.5" tubing, all mandral bent and welded up, we then procedded to create the rest of the exhaust, it was basically setting in the 3" tubing that we wanted to run as close as we could where we could, no cats, no resonator either. then to top it all off we put on a Blitz Nur Spec muffler from an STI set up. with it all said and done, i can say i lost some lowend torque, but other than that the rest of the powerband was greatly increased. my only complaint is that it is VERY loud, i need to do atleast a silencer at this point as i am on the verge of getting a ticket, it is extremely low, grumbly and very sweet sounding, there is a very small amount of resonation around 3k, but only until about 3200... once the IRS valve opens the thing sounds insane... enough said i am glad i did what i did, a little loud and a little ricey looking but overall very pleased.