I received my Tanabe SRM yesterday by UPS ground. I purchased the Cat back along w/ the Stomung catless downpipe from Brett at Renick Subaru in California ... great customer service so far. The Tanabe was installed yesterday and it sounds ... MEAN
. I thought it was very loud at first which I still think it's loud but not as loud as before, maybe because I'm getting use to it. People say the car just hints "Try Me
!" It gives off a true, deep boxer tuned sound. The Tanabe was very easy to work with and everything fits perfectly. However welds are good not as good as the Vishnu up-pipe.
Shane and I are going to install the Stromung catless downpipe tonight and hopefully that'll also go well. The welds are "ok" and don't come close to either products ... I hope Stromung watches the quanlity of their products more carefully in the future. Hey what do you expect for a $200 catless dp
which should equal 10+hp? I heard that w/ a catless dp that the Tanabe will sound even louder. If everything goes well then I'll have some GTech numbers later tonight.
http://www.richard.chu.com/exhaust.htm