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Got about 1000 miles on my new 17' WRX, and have been thinking about how I want to upgrade my exhaust. Since it is my daily driver I wanted to keep it somewhat on the quiet side at lower RPM's, but sound more aggressive when you open up the throttle. I've been looking at about a million different options. Cat back, axle back, turbo back, etc. Since my car is brand new, and I don't want to tune it (opted for the 100k mile warranty), I am going to keep it to a cat back setup.
I think having the mufflers right behind the bumper looks horrible. I love the factory quad tips, but dislike the mufflers being so visable. I was thinking about taking my car to an exhaust shop and get a custom catback setup. I would put a muffler where the factory resonator is, and just put some sort of heat barrier above the muffler. Looking at photos online of the undercarriage of my WRX it looks like there will be enough room to put a decent sized round muffler there to help keep it somewhat on the quiet side. Maybe even fit in a smaller resonator to help keep the sound down.
Has anyone done something similar to this? Any complications or things I should know about? It's how Evo X exhausts are run if anyone is familiar with that.
I think having the mufflers right behind the bumper looks horrible. I love the factory quad tips, but dislike the mufflers being so visable. I was thinking about taking my car to an exhaust shop and get a custom catback setup. I would put a muffler where the factory resonator is, and just put some sort of heat barrier above the muffler. Looking at photos online of the undercarriage of my WRX it looks like there will be enough room to put a decent sized round muffler there to help keep it somewhat on the quiet side. Maybe even fit in a smaller resonator to help keep the sound down.
Has anyone done something similar to this? Any complications or things I should know about? It's how Evo X exhausts are run if anyone is familiar with that.