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06-22-2011, 08:15 PM | #826 |
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Nice. I've always liked borla. Who knows, being that its a Subaru you might get to cash in on that borla million mile warranty. Lol
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06-22-2011, 08:25 PM | #827 | |||
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I've had the sedan axleback on the STI for about 2 weeks now. And to be honest, its the best sounding exhaust note I've heard from a Subaru. I was just at a huge Subaru meet this weekend and had LOTS of interest in it. People LOVED the sound. Inside the cabin is not as loud as people make it out to be. To give a more accurate comparison, I used to own a 2006 STI w/ a 3" Cobb TBE on it and this is much quieter in the cabin then that exhaust was. Also, when you cruise it really mellows out, when you open up the throttle she growls Its a mean sounding growl but its super clean. Obviously everyones definition and expectation of a perfect exhaust note will be subjective, but to me this does NOT in anyway sound unrefined. Its clean and badass. Perfect. There is NO rasp and no droning. This car was also at an autocross event this weekend. Again, alot of people were asking me about the exhaust and were telling me it sounded amazing outside of the car at WOT. Quote:
So yeah... If you guys have had any doubts about this company up till now, I really recommend you give the shop a call and follow them on Facebook. Hopefully you find this post helpful. I am in no way affiliated with Nameless Performance, just an extremely happy customer trying to give you guys an accurate description of the product and the company behind it. Last edited by Trigg; 06-22-2011 at 08:32 PM. |
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06-22-2011, 09:03 PM | #828 |
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gAh, ya beat me to it! I'm updating the website right now for a number of our as yet unreleased parts. Also to address some questions in regard to the sound, etc:
Hatch Owners: We are going ahead with testing a full muffler delete axleback for your cars. We are also releasing (today) a non resonated catback and midpipe for the 2008-2011 hatch. Sedan Owners: See the photo above, that is the preliminary design for our factory fit muffler for the midpipe on your cars. We have a midpipe fully developed and have tested it with the single resonator in the middle on a stock downpipe car and it sounds phenomenal. Add a downpipe and it gets a little rowdy, so that is where this muffler design comes in. Best part is, you can buy both the standard Y and the muffler and also swap them in and out of your car. We have the shell of the muffler out for laser cutting and forming right now (prototyping both aluminum and stainless iterations of this muffler) and should have those back in on Monday of next week. We have also sourced a few different packing materials for the muffler to test and validate for a variety of sound signatures. These include but are not limited to: 4 densities of ceramic wool used in high temp, high boost diesel applications, a few densities of stainless wool - the go to for mufflers that you'd find on the shelf, as well as some other novel concepts that we have been wanting to test. We are doing everything in our power to make this a fully serviceable muffler - allowing you to change packing on the fly or just repack the unit after a few years of service. All of the packing materials we are working with are easy to handle and don't have the common characteristics of fiberglass packing often used in the exhaust silencing industry. We have also spent a lot of time researching exhaust frequency and design methodology and have found a number of ways in which we can band pass filter the various ill sounding artifacts that often come along with any given exhaust design. As an example, we have wanted to product a design that utilizes a helmholtz secondary resonator for controlling drone and unwanted frequency and this muffler can gives us a prime opportunity to do so, as it has a large volumetric space between the legs of the Y which can be used to house a variety of helmholtz resonator sizes and designs. Tuesday-Thursday of next week we will have a 2011 STi Sedan back in here to test this muffler out as well as (hopefully) finalize our divorced downpipe design to get it ready for market. We should also have up-pipe flanges in by then, which would allow us to lay out the up pipe with external wastegate flange, or at least get lined up to do so in the following weeks. I look forward to sharing more details soon. I apologize for not being more active on the forums, but if you want the scoop - our FaceBook page is the best place to see exactly what we are working on every day. http://facebook.com/namelessperformance Anyone can view it, you do not need a FB login to do so. And yes, I do know that most of your employers know that people f-around on fb every day but they don't know about NASIOC ;-D Jason Griffith Nameless Performance, Inc.
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06-22-2011, 10:26 PM | #829 | |
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This really does beg the question though - how can a company like ours produce exhausts that can be tuned to the liking of the customer without radically changing the system? We have some ideas and are really commited to trying them out and experiementing with active exhaust systems and a variety of torque and horsepower controlling variables in them. Because you really can have your cake and eat it too if you look at how one exhaust behaves relative to another and why. McLaren does it all day long. Their new MP4-12C uses an active exhaust cutout in the rear of the system. Here's the rub: It's not a cutout that bypasses a muffler or dumps the downpipes or anything of the sort. It's just a butterfly over the tailpipe tips. It actively varies backpressure to maximize power across the powerband depending in which type of circuit or activity the car is participating. I haven't been around here much lately but I've been doing a lot of homework. Our electrical and computer engineer has been doing a lot of homework as well, and we are really excited to start looking into building a few prototype systems to see how feasible development of this scale on an enthusiast car can be. And the muffler shown above is just one method of allowing the previous configurability of our systems to be passed one step further into the hands of our customers. We want you to be able to start from a reference point (say, a youtube video of a setting on the exhaust system, whether it is electronic or manually controlled like with the muffler packing or variable helmholtz devices) and then make changes as described in our product literature. These comments give us an opportunity to discuss the ways in which our systems can improve and continue to deliver the quality and service you expect from our company while bringing another few levels of tuning capability to the table. Some of the elements we are currently working on: - Use of helmholtz devices (dead resonators) whether internal to the muffler or external to the exhaust. - Use of mechanical frequency absorbing devices for controlling rasp and nasty exhaust sound artifacts that aren't associated with specific frequency at all flow levels. - Variable packing material density and serviceable muffler designs. - Mechanically variable internal helmholtz resonators. The good part about our systems is that once we commit to a factory fitting design, all of the pieces are interchangeable - allowing upgrades and new designs to be largely backward compatible with the former generation of the system. It is also why we have waited to release the midpipe for the sedan this long - having a system with a muffler that is interchangeable with the non muffled version allows more versatility than does releasing the midpipe with a v-band in the middle that won't attach to an as-yet-undesigned muffler. We're working hard to bring you good products and think through our designs to the fullest. We're also really learning a lot about what OE manufacturers do to solve these challenges on a much larger scale. We have a lot more we are working on as well. I have literally typed one paragraph discussing a new project into three or four forum posts and then deleted it because it's really not ready to discuss...but there is a lot more to come. That much I can tell you. :-D Talk to you soon, Jason
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06-23-2011, 08:06 AM | #830 | |
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I give the nod to Nameless. Look at all the time they have spent here explaining their product. They have been professional and personal time and again. Although the axleback wasn't for me, it is a great product by a great company. Keep up the good work! |
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06-23-2011, 08:27 AM | #831 | |
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$950 for a resonated exhaust system isn't too expensive considering what you are getting. Maybe if NP has a prototype out before I buy they can change my mind. I think that that the Borla has 4" tips too. I personally believe that this car and its many tips shouldn't have anything larger than 3.5" I saw a bunch of q300's at a meet, they just look too big. |
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06-23-2011, 09:24 AM | #832 | |
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06-23-2011, 10:32 AM | #833 |
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The q300 tips are not quite 4 inches. They are 3.8. They sit better in the cutouts then my single wall 3.5 NP did in my opinion due to it being able to fill the gap that you could see through to the suspension on the car with the NP. I had a lot of comments about that on the NP at meets and it bugged me as well. I also felt that the single wall tip was more of an American muscle look for me too. Like mustangs, camaros, etc. Just my opinion though. As far as the flow of the q300 versus the NP it isn't a fair comparison as its an a axelback and mine is a cbe. As far as the NP cbe flowing more, I would be interested in seeing that. One would think it would flow more due to the lack of mufflers but at a cost of it being to loud for my taste. I know NP is working on some ways to muffle the exhaust but I would be interested to see it gain more power then the q300 and keep that deeper and quieter sound. I hope they can, they are a great company and produce top notch parts, the axelback as stated earlier just wasnt for me. Good luck to you NP!
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06-23-2011, 10:47 AM | #834 | |
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110 millimeters = 4.33070866 inches So much for quality control. |
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06-23-2011, 11:39 AM | #835 |
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Lol. The website I looked at said 3.8 but it wasn't invidias site either. I didn't look much further into it because I remember NP saying they couldn't use a 4 inch tip because you would have to cut out the opening more. Invidia required no cutting so I assumed it was under 4. I gotta go measure it now. Lol. Be right back!
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06-23-2011, 11:45 AM | #836 |
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Just measured! Its just under 4". Probably 3.8 is right. Invidias site must have a typo. As far as 3.8 compared to 3.5 goes...the fact that these are double walled tips is what makes them bigger. The inside diameter of the tip is 3.5 just like the NP, just double walled instead of single.
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06-23-2011, 01:03 PM | #837 | |
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06-23-2011, 03:17 PM | #840 |
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Yeah. Mine actually sit flush. The holes on all of the flanges are oblong so you can adjust it. I've seen them adjusted to stick out like that too, not my thing though.
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06-23-2011, 04:55 PM | #842 |
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And in terms of arranging the tips, we can stick them out an inch past the end of the cutout if anyone wants that, just ask. :-D
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06-23-2011, 05:00 PM | #844 |
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Here are a few shots of our Staggered 3.5" Single Wall Tips as well:
We have stuck those out past the bumper for 2-3 customers already. Jason
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06-23-2011, 06:43 PM | #846 | |
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06-24-2011, 08:07 PM | #849 | |
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I would trade droning for loudness any day. I would assume a muffled midpipe would quite down the axelback a bit (vs stock midpipe with stock downpipe)? Not that i'm really concerned with the sound level. I had a full 3" catless TBE on one of my older cars which was pretty damn loud.. and no drone. |
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