RS*R ExMag is in! (I HAVE RECORDINGS)
 

Holy shit this thing is ****in awesome! It does not fart, it does not burble, it just hums sonorously....
Windows up, 65 mph, you hear nothing... highway cruisers... this is the one! It seems to quiet down at higher speeds... its a little audible below 30, but nothing bad... when you take your foot off the gas above 4K, you can also hear it... other than that, its pretty quiet. Imagine a stock exhaust volume... just a few notes lower.
It does pretty much what it's supposed to do... it clears up the mid-range... which it does quite well... the car is much more responsive to a touch of the gas, I now find that I don't have to downshift at 35... I can leave it in 4th, and it just kinda goes (in a Civic definition of fast). Well worth the over $500 I spent on it. Construction wise... it's pretty straight through,ceramic coated stainless. The muffler looks to be steel wool or glass lined. Right now it's in that kinds stinky phase... so I gotta drive it around for a while until it burns out. Clears the RSX sway bar with ease, but my car is not dropped.
I don't have anything to record it with right now... I'm working on getting a video digicam this weekend for autocross... so I'll record it then. Right now... here's a few bad pics (it got dark)
http://tools.ecn.purdue.edu/~krausej/rsr/exmag1.jpg

http://tools.ecn.purdue.edu/~krausej/rsr/exmag2.jpg

http://tools.ecn.purdue.edu/~krausej/rsr/exmag3.jpg

As far as who has it... massimoperformance.com and modacar.com are 2 that I am aware of. I got it from autoall.com, they took a little while to get it here (a little over 2 weeks), but I caught a free shipping promo and jumped on it.

I am ready for the question barage.... ok, go.

Recordings are on PAGE 2.

Re: RS*R ExMag is in!
 

Yea RSRs stuff is pretty kick butt IMO, i just got my hands ona 7th gen one here. just started carrying RSR. Let me know how that one performs for ya. cars lookin pretty good man. whens the next AutoX??? any near northern IN?

drop me a line

Boilermaker, good to see the install went well. can u messure the tip for me. id like to know the diameter of the outlet.

Thanks in advance,
Jon

The polished tip is 4". The liner inside is about 3.75 or so.

I have to say that's the most impressive looking exhaust systems for a 7th Gen I've ever seen.

Do whatEVER it takes to get a sound clip of it. Inside the car, outside the car, fly-by, cruising at 80, @WOT from 1st to 3rd! EDIT: Oh yeah, and definitely idling and revving up that sucka, y0! :)

How much does it weigh? What other mods do you have?

If I had to take a completely blind guess.. I'd say around 35-40 lbs. The rear section was a bit heafty, but the pipe weighed next to nothing. Only other power mod is an Injen CAI. I'll have lots of sound this weekend... an autocross lap with a camera in the car should serve as a pretty good sound check.

Oh, and this is an EX exhaust, right?

All you need is a good header. Too bad the only good one requires an engine lift or shaving the motor mount for an EX manual. Blah. Well, that's up to you.

At any rate, I can't wait to see/hear your car autocross.

do they have one for an LX or DX? that way there is no modification to the exhaust involved.

oh and is the tip removable? i dont like the chrome look on the tip.

As far as I can tell... the tip is welded in. It looks like you'd have to torch it off. There is no LX/DX version of it that I'm aware of... the box came to me marked as ES3... which is the sedan... so it does fit 2 or 4 door models.

it looks good and if i were to get an exhaust, this would be the one. but one question, i'm not a fan of the whole 4" tip thing, can you get a smaller diameter tip?

No you can't get a smaller tip... but to be honest... it looks right at home. It fills out the cut in the bumper very well and looks to be in perfect proportion. I suppose if you were to cut it off, you could knock it down to about 3.75" but it would probably be all ugly looking since the cutting torch would screw the ceramic up.
everything is kinda dirty right now. When I clean it up later, I'll take some far away pics and you can see.

sounds like a great mod! I need to buy one!

muffler tip looks PERFECT. sweet catback. you should make video/ sound clip for other members to enjoy it ;)

Borrowing office camera tonight... as long I can get it to record (last time I tried it didn't work), you'll hear lots tonight.

you finally did it boiler! kicks arse. post clips asap!

Post some more pics of it in the day light!!! Let us know of how it sounds after it gets broken in. Can you compare the sound to another exhaust you have heard??? Or is it in its own little category?

Ok... here's a few pics from far back...

http://tools.ecn.purdue.edu/~krausej/rsr/side.jpg

http://tools.ecn.purdue.edu/~krausej/rsr/rear.jpg


And now what you've been waiting for... sounds...
(if you are on 56K, you will meet your doom)

Idling

Revving in the driveway - Hanging camera out window... enjoy looking at the Bimmer

Offramp fun

The famous WOT 0-80 Dash - Yes... I bogged the shit out of it.

Another full blast run

I tried recording it on the highway with the windows up... nothing came out... its too quiet.
I was trying to drive and hold the record button at the same time... so enjoy looking at my knee.

sounds great, thats probably one of the best, if not the best, that I've heard.

that sounds really good man, definitely one of the best that I've heard

yeah i agree sound great no rice!

sounds excellent. i love it

yeah that sounds great! that seems to be the same exact way my skunk2 sounds.

sound really good man

It sounds nice. Skunk2 is a lil' deeper - and yet a bit higher pitched in the high RPMs.

It sounds nice but it's not the sound I'm looking for. Still, overall gets the thumb upz, y0!

Sounds really nice. One of the best Ive heard

thanks for coming through with the recordings. damn now i want one. the low profile is just what i need

Well, it's breaking in/burning junk out... and I'm surprised... its doing the opposite of what I thought... its actually getting QUIETER. This is simply wonderful. I've got a couple of my friends who are dumbestic drivers (the V8 RWD kind) liking the sound of this thing.

And the tip really ain't that bad. Polished tips w/dark mufflers own.

Very nice! I was thinking of getting a new exhaust in the future and that looks pretty sweet. :tup:

-Kre