which still remains awesome, I have now some smoke on cold start up which I never experienced before ?

 

thats normal. It's just expelling the gasses that are sitting in the pipes.

 

Ruined, old and busted. You should sell it to me for $500.


Seriously, do you have any "drone" at 2500-3500rpms. This is my #1 choice currently for a new exhaust. LSM raved about how great it is. Do you feel the same?

 

the very fact that there are no used Cargraphic systems on the market ( or at least I couldn't find one in the US or Europe ) says something:

If I were to start over again I would also seriously consider the PSI as the Cargraphic has a deep sound, 2.5-3.5K there is some reasonance but with the stereo rebalanced, sound proofing back in and my tips moved out its fab ! In fact I never thought a 996 TT could sound like this

 

I can't speak of how it was without sound proofing, but, I'm glad you put the sound proofing back in and see that there is really NO resonance to speak of. I couldn't agree more on your sound assessment either, best sounding by far, spool up is quicker and I was consistentlyu hitting .1 bar higher with only the exhaust and air filter

Lou

 

If you drive the car hard, make sure you let it run for 5-10 minutes before you shut the car down, cool down the turbos and burn off all the trapped exhaust gases. This will eliminate the smoke on cold start up.

Lou

 

I have a set of 60mm Techart tips. Does the Export loud exhaust come in this size? I'd like to be able to use them with the new exhaust if possible.

 

Lou, I was hitting 1.3 bar before CG, so can't really improve on that !

 

Is there anyone in the bay area that has this cargraphic exhaust? I'd love to compare the sound to the PSI Loud, which has a very nice low to midrange sound, that stays controlled all the way up the rpm range. It never loses its character, not even at WOT, which the EP does. Upon deceleration, you can prolong the burble from 3k rpm all the way down to 2k rpm with a slight throttle opening.

I'd like to know if the cargraphic has similar characteristics.

 

is certainly there in a big way, CG is definitely wayout west on a cold start, it even puts my Stradale with hyperflows to shame (which on tickover is just very urgent) whereas the CG export is more F1 !

with tiptronic, the CG has some res. as noted before between 2.5/3.5K but beyond that its very consistent to the redline without going lary like the Stradale does 4-8K rpm (and can be heard about 2 miles away)

 

Yea, they'll fit...

 

I had a manual, no resonance between 2500-3500.. Really not much more resonance than stock at any rpm..... I've had two separate Cargraphic Super Sound exhausts...... same with both

Lou

 

I run the Cargraphic loud on our GT2.. BEST SOUNDING EXHAUST out there in IMHO...

I would highly recommend it

Hehe and I have a system instock if you need one NEW... -----
my shameless plug hehehe

 

Cargraphic has hands downt he best exhaust for the 996TT in my opinion.

 

There is no standard way to measure drone or resonance. It all depends on what your tolerance is and what you're accustomed to. The only TT exhaust that have no unwanted "drone or resonance" to the untrained ear is the stock exhaust.