Well my car is at Sharkwerks for Phase IV - Custom addition to my CarGraphic Stage V setup. Basically it's a removal of my stock muffler as you will clearly see from the pics that it can't handle the back pressure from the new setup. So now my car is gonna be 18lbs lighter and sound even louder!!

I'll have Alex talk more about what they are doing to my car and what is coming out for the ones who don't run the Cargraphic setup.

Pics of my car at Sharkwerks. (nice collection of cars!)



My stock muffler


New parts going on today/tomorrow



Videos coming tomorrow and I'm racing my car at Thunderhill Friday so will more to come as well!!

I bet my neighbors are gonna love me even more, NOT

 

nutz...............

 

Hehe your neighbors always love you.... Indeed, we had to come up with an alternative to the stock center piece on Fred's because the Cargraphic Kit 5 wasn't blending well with the stock section. The stock section is made of very thin double-walled material so I'm not suprised it cracked like that so for the local guys with the cargraphic system we can do something similair to what Fred will have. You can't tell but the black section is the bottom piece and in the shot below you can see the top piece "cross-over" (trying to create some sort of resonance chamber for Fred's neigbors!) being test fitted. The solution seems to work well and saved about 18 pounds off of the booty.

The other stuff we're doing is fitting one of those "green" Fire Extinguisher kits. Fred gets the first one since we don't actually have our seats yet I'll post pictures shortly but the powder-coating is spot on.

On the orange RS we already installed our own exhaust bypass for the stock system which you can listen to here. It's going to Thunderhill on Friday so it will be interesting to see what he thinks:
http://videos.g33kd.net/Shark_Werks_..._preview_1.wmv

It's got the same 997GT3RS seats as Fred and the RS roll bar but was kept in black to be more stealthy. I'll post pix shortly (he's still waiting on his orange FE kit tho lol). What you can't see is from yesterday we also had a White RS, which I hadn't seen before... It'll be back soon for some work obviously so I'll take some pix then. All in all, it's been an RS-week here and as Kirby says you'll see more RS' than Camry's these days.. Dime a dozen I tell ya!

 

Looks good Fred!! Can't wait to here it at Thunderhill...

 

I wish I had words to describe how Fred's car sounds but I just don't.... The cross-over was a good idea my friend. Your neighbors might not like you but they'd hate you more had we not done that

 

Isn't it time to unveil the SharkWerks exhaust for the factory header/side mufflers? Suspense is killing me.

I mean pics. Seen the great video already.

 

You got it We've got three out there (the orange one) and once the orange one gets back from the track I'll post pix of the production unit... We'll be ready real soon though, I promise!

 

Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Fred, Are you done yet? It is fall and my Money tree stopped producing $100.00 bills two weeks ago!!!

 

What laptimes are u doing at T-hill Fred? Love the green : ). Mike

 

Fred's not done yet of course not... He _needs_ to be environmentally friendly (hmm maybe not since it's halon) and have a green fire extinguisher kit (powder coating came out real good I think).

 

So from what I see, it'll be the headers, 200 cell cats and straight out to the center tips. This has to be outrageously loud. I'm interested but I have the FVD system. Can I go for it? GT3Ranger

 

It is louder than before because but we created a cross-over and hence a chamber for resonance so it's not unbearable...How loud it is will be determined by the set up you have for headers and cats mostly. The 100 cell cats and cargraphic headers make the car already very loud so the center muffler wasn't doing very much anyways and the car was LOUD. Actually it was quite loud with a hole and cracks in four places I'd need to see the car to do anything custom like that since you have the FVD. If I can find someone local we could get a test fitment and see...

Has your center muffler given you any problems? Send me some pix of your set up if you can and I'll see what might work. Depending upon the angles we may even be able to use the center piece that we have on our car and the orange one.

 

damn the backpressure blew that big of a hole?

so are you tossing the stock exhaust or try to somehow claim warranty?

 

That has got to be loud. Any problems at the track with decibel limits?