Exhaust replacement

[banpei]

On Saturday, I replaced the Tanabe with the Fujitsubo exhaust at the TACN meet. I'll put the full report in the project thread, but just adding here some relevant information.

First of all, this is the difference in looks:

On the left is the old Tanabe Hyper Medalion and on the right is the Fujitsubo Legalis-R W-tail.

The Fujitsubo was noticeably quieter, so that was a definite win. The Tanabe makes a low hum with a lot of bass (like a cannon exhaust) and the Fujitsubo is much more toned down. The sound is pleasant, so it's not like the car now sounds like an EE80 on steroids.
In terms of unscientific measurements I took, on my way to the meeting I measured inside the cabin about 77 dB at 100km/h (3500rpm) and on my way back that was between 74 dB to 75 dB. It's almost half as loud as before in that rpm range. At 90 km/h at 5000 rpm it was somewhere in the 78 db to 79 dB range inside the cabin.
I'll try to do a more scientific measurement this week and compose a video out of it.