JDM Hawkeye Exhaust Options
 

Hi All,

I know this has been done a few times before but I still haven't found the answers I was hoping for.

Basically, I was absolutely set on getting a Tomei exhaust after watching some videos online, links below. Two things are concerning me though, firstly everywhere I see them for sale they taper to 2.5" where they join the downpipe and secondly for the price I could nearly get a full stainless turbo back and a remap.

With the above in mind, are there alternatives that give a similar sound, I get not being titanium it's never going to sound exactly the same? Does anyone have any videos showing some other examples, similar to the video links below to get a perception of how they actually sound driving rather than just at a standstill?

Tomei have had a few that have welds that fail. Invidia titan is a manderel bent titanium exhaust, 3" all the way, just waiting to fit mine, but jdm needs a custom down pipe to connect up.

My JDM had a Tomei expreme and it didn't sound like that. Either that one is also decat or its just the video not giving a true representation - which happens most of the time. People often say the JDMs really scream up high in the revs, like a motorbike, but I now have a straight through centre and a Nurspec box (standard cat is still on the car) and mine doesn't. You pretty much have to decat to get the noise I think your after so your cheaper option inc remap sounds like the way to go I'd say. Bit of a bugger come MOT time though.

Thanks for the replies, I think I'm swaying towards the full stainless system and a remap, at least that way I can get the cat back in the short term and see what I think of it and then get the decat and remap at a later stage.

Has anyone got any videos of a JDM with a stainless system, Afterburner, RCM etc? Unless my search skills aren't very good I can't find much.

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I have a hawk with standard exhaust with future plans of downpipe cat and keeping the genome backbox

Hi. I had a Tomei system. I tried to fit a RCM downpipe and it didnt fit. So I ended up selling the Tomei and went full RCM. Tomei is loud and aggressive, with motorbike type rasp. The RCM system is much quieter but a great system overall.

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Did you de cat or sports cat?

I had a genome back and centre pipe on my jdm blobeye and sounded ok, but once I put on a hayward and scott decat and had it mapped it now sounds insane on boost.

Orignally sports cat

Which RCM system? Is it louder than the Team Ice?! Thats about the loudest exhaust i've ever heard. That and the GpA replica I have.

Do RCM have a sports cat downpipe?
Edit, just read your reply that you do. What's its diameter?
I cannot find the sports cat downpipe in their website.

No with the RCM its a full decat system 3" all the way.

I'm another for the Hayward and Scott which I fitted to mines , full 3" decat all the way