One of the most effective modification to free up lots of horsepower (especially turbocharged car) is by simply changing to a freer flow exhaust system... If you're driving a naturally aspirated car, you really need to choose your exhaust setup wisely... As for turbocharged car, changing exhaust is as easy as 'ABC'... Normally people will tell you to go with the biggest diameter allow for your engine and the less resistant the better (meaning straight all the way without any resonator)... 

At first I'm planning to go 3" all the way but decided to go against it after much consideration... Now I'm running 2.5" only as noise is my biggest enemy... I like to set it up as quiet as possible as this is my daily drive and I need to ferry my customers occasionally... So I've got no choice but to opt for silent exhaust...

The normal 'Merc' exhaust system was way to restrictive... After changing the piping all the way, I felt my car got a bit more power especially at higher RPM...

One way to solve the noise issue is to use back the original 'Merc' muffler... With this on, you can barely hear anything!!!... Okay, the noise have gone up a notch with the new piping but still very much habitable... Most people will think that I'm running on stock eventhough my exhaust is straight flow all the way (good thing about turbocharged car as the turbo helps to muffled out a lot of noise!!!)... With the original muffler on, I'm very sure I've lost some power but this is a trade off that I must accept!!! Currently I'm really happy with this setup and I don't plan to do anything to the muffler for the time being... 

To be continue...

I will be adding another new category to my blog real soon!!! Believe me, this will be the 'BEST' category as far as I'm concern!!! I'm so very excited about it!!!

STAY TUNE!!!

Recently I found one of the BEST photo editing software and is call 'pixlr-o-matic'!!! I may be outdated but is better late than never as I know this software has been introduce quite some time ago... What I really like about this software is the accessibility of it... I run this software from my 'iPad 2', 'Galaxy Nexus' and also my desktop computer!!! Three very different platform but with the same satisfying result!!!

As for photo editing tool, I believe 'pixlr-o-matic' is also one of the best out there!!! Lots of things and effect for you to edit and you know what, I stop using 'Photoshop' nowadays and my 'DSLR' is sleeping soundly in the drybox... Now I just use my 'Galaxy Nexus' to take pics and edit it using 'pixlr-o-matic' which is so much easier to do... Guess is time for me to pamper my 'DSLR'!!!

Here's what I have to endure for more than one week!!! The whole interior looks really ugly and not forgetting scary as all the wiring loom can be seen snaking all over the place... Before this, all my interior lighting were off except the meter (thankfully if not I really don't know how to drive at night!!!)... So I took this chance and send my car for checkup... The wireman found a short circuit and replaced the wire and now the interior is back to normal except my boost meter!!! Will need to recheck this when I'm free...

This is the looks on my interior right now... All wood parts had turned into carbon fiber instead!!! In my opinion, it looks so much nicer if compared to the original wood trim and also the carbon fiber sticker that I had some time ago...

Thinking of buying some epoxy and hardener for my carbon trim as I ran out of those and some of the part is still not perfect!!! I still need to sand it and reapply at least for one or two more times!!! But too bad I ran out of the epoxy and hardener and I need to live with imperfection now I guess... Anybody know what kind of epoxy and hardener suitable for carbon fiber??? Will those used on fiber kit works???  

To be continue...