CAI and exhaust mock assistance

[Big_tugg]

I've been reading about the issues with drone from cat back and no CAI support. I reached out to some friends who assisted with my race car. I have a buddy of mine who has the bending numbers for cat back for the sedan; he is willing to do a CAI and cat back for our cars. He own a shop in Kent, Washington. He needs a car for mock up. Does anybody live in that area? If there is a interest in headers this is something he can also handle. Still working with folks about tuning.

 

[SmoovC]

Stan's?

 

[Big_tugg]

Clearimagine automotive, owner name is Dan

 

[Rey]

No one has tried to produce headers, long tube or shorties. Long tubes definitely cannot be sold in CA. Shorties, maybe, but there is an approval process that can be expensive.
Ideally, long tube headers for the V8 would make nice power with little noise increase (no drone). You probably could use the secondary cats as the primary cats.
I don't think shorty headers produce enough power to justify all the approval effort.
Whatever, the market for headers is quite thin. Wonder if you'd even sell ten sets?
As for cat back, Magnaflow has the market well covered, but even with their latest version there is still some drone. I think there is some potential for competition with Magnaflow by developing just a replacement for the rear muffler, complete with pipes, etc, - using the Dynomax VT mufflers. This will net a nice power increase, no drone and should bring a good profit at around $600 retail, half of Magnaflow's retail.