actually, i am 16 years old and i've had the car since june. it was an act of god that brought me to my se-r, and i've never regretted it. i was looking for a good autocrossing car, and i found the se-r in the auto trader. i immediatly told my dad and he called about it. after about a week or two of trying to get ahold of him, we finally did and went to look at it. the car has it's dents and dings (little rust on the drivers side front panel, lower left) but i always am reminded "it's a 1991, it could be a lot worse." anyways, he drove it, loved it, and it was purchased. after getting the manual transmission down the only abuse it sees is autocrosses, but it's not that hard on it.
anyways, about the exhaust system. i purchased it from dynamic turbo. it has a 2.5 inch inlet and a 4 inch, angle cut, tip that the gases come out of. i went 2.25 inch piping from the catalytic converted back (no stainless steel, just steel) and had a converter made to fit it to the 2.5 inch inlet. it took the stock cars exhaust system route since se-r's had a stock exhaust that wasn't overly restrictive. the car flows a heck of a lot better now, it's noticable, but she is running a little rich.
sadly, there isn't a place around my part of kansas that will do mandrel bending, so i had to go with the second best kind of bening. i forget what it's called. the price of the muffler was $180 dollars, i forget how much shipping was but ohh well. all together (with the exhaust system done) it cost me 220 bucks. considering the price of a tanabe cat-back for a se-r is around 500, i think i did pretty well.
drone, highway yes. keep in mind i'm going about 75 (3500rpm) and there is basically no muffler there. it "numbs" the ears of a 16 year old, but i've always had sensitive ears. on long trips i most definatly put the silencer in (pic below of it in) and it quiets the car DRAMATICALLY!
snow, not much. it's kansas. we either get blizzards or nothing basically here. i'm not complaining though.
if yah got anymore questions shoot. i'll list the mods i've done to the car so far and include that silencer pic:
mods:
basically oem 7mm spark plug wires
platinum spark plugs
arospeed tunable bomb exhaust
k&n filtercharger kit
matrix pedals (slide on, helps my big feet find the clutch pedal)
4 speakers and a cd player
that silencer pic:
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