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Originally Posted by jaffa12
Nice Kkuba, nice to see someone actually working and modifying their car components instead of plug and play components, both electronic and mechanical. Good job.
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Thanks! Appreciate it.
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Originally Posted by andnkuhn
I love the idea of this mod, but is it worth it?
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Well, it didn't really cost me anything, my friend did not charge me for the welding, or any of the associated materials. It took us about 1.5 hours total, I was under the car removing the exhaust, while my friend was welding the (spare) exhaust. Just to give you an idea.
After some more driving. I can say that the only other thing I noticed was slightly louder overrun. Standard exhaust, you can usually hear the overrun very slightly, for example when in first gear driving around a carpark. Still the same (only in carpark), but now a bit louder.
Is it worth it? I guess that depends on you. I enjoyed (and always have) the DIY aspect of it, almost like a 'hack', the fact that you can get extra noise for free, essentially. Even though, it was only a very slight increase in volume, personally, it was very satisfying.
If you're going to pay an exhaust shop to do it.. I'd say, maybe don't bother. I guess depends on how much they charge for something like this.
It seems from the thread which I linked to in my OP, that it makes a big difference if you have some supporting exhaust mods already, like de-cat, or resonator delete, or something. All videos and anecdotes seem to have some other mods to go with it.