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Old 08-31-2003 | 07:49 AM
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Hello,
I have 2 questions for now.

1st: I've been looking at mufflers and magnaflow seems to make good ones. If any of you have or heard/seen this brand of mufflers or another brand could you please give me a review of the sound/appearence? Thanks. I'm don't have enough money for a cat-back system and my current muffler is small and flat black. I want something with a little bit bigger dual tips in stainless steel (no grapefruit shooters). Also, the sound is important because I don't want an annoying lawnmower sound, just a reasonable rumble, and since my car is auto I don't want it to be obnoxious. Thanks again

2nd and last: I've been looking at wheels and I found that 4x114.3 lug wheels fit the 4g prelude but what offset would you recommend for a 17x7 wheel? I know stock is 55mm and I don't want to sacrafice my lude's handling advantage. Thankyou.
Old 08-31-2003 | 08:36 AM
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go with apex'i, i have the n1 series on my lude and it has great deep tone sound, but i got all new piping and the combined price of my exhaust was roughly 650 so its a lot but if you want performance your gonna have to spend money. oh yeah i bpught my muffler of ebay and then got pipes done at the gulf station, i got custom piping so thats hot.
Old 08-31-2003 | 09:22 AM
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So are you saying you had the N1 Muffler then custom machined cat back pipes? I can't really justify spending 650 for a cat-back exhaust that gives you only 10hp to the flywheel. I'm just looking for something that looks a little better and sounds a little better. I'm not really concerned about performance because I know I can get smoked by pretty much anything.

BTW, are your wheels 17" or 18"?
Old 08-31-2003 | 03:13 PM
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dont listen to the electrician.


you can get a full catback N1 system for $450 if you shop around. it's worthless to try and out-engineer a team of engineers who made the N1 setup. but, as far as muffler/exhaust setups go, i'm not a fan of the N1. just get whatever suits you, as you're not going to see much of a gain in power at all... only a gain in sound.

as for your offset, +45 is the lowest i'd go. it'll bring your rims out to the edge of the fenders without rubbing or looking like a skateboard.
Old 08-31-2003 | 05:57 PM
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Cool thanks a lot drift. Last quick question lol: is there any way to change a wheels offset? Cause I might be able to get some wheels with a 40 or 42 mm offset for cheap, and if I could change it to 45 that'd be awesome. Is this what spacers do? Thanks.
Old 09-01-2003 | 02:18 AM
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Originally posted by sambo2005
Cool thanks a lot drift. Last quick question lol: is there any way to change a wheels offset? Cause I might be able to get some wheels with a 40 or 42 mm offset for cheap, and if I could change it to 45 that'd be awesome. Is this what spacers do? Thanks.

spacers will only exacerbate the problem. 40-42mm offset would have to have the wheel's hub shaved to achieve a higher offset.

the lower the offset, the more the wheels will stick out.
Old 09-01-2003 | 01:44 PM
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damn drift you just wont let go off, the burning dash will you. no you gotta go around and crack on me on other threads. im just looking for some help not comics.




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