Whats in a name?

AvusHatesCones

So I've been looking for a section 3 (axle back) exhaust for the E46, I honestly do love having a quiet car for once in my life, but I'm also so tired of when I push the car, I hear nothing... it goes like the dickens but makes no discernible noise. Its like being with a supermodel that when you're.... never mind I'm getting side tracked. Either way, I want some more sound out of it. And found that I like the sound of the Agency Power section 3, with some AR20 resonators welded in the section 1 to cut some of the rasp.

Problem 1.

Its $1,200.00 for the exhaust, I could take that money and buy the soon to come out Castro motorsport CSL intake

Problem 2.

I did some searching and found out that this exhaust has an identical twin ( I mean exactly the same product with a different logo)... and its twins name is Megan

Problem 3.

The Megan sells for a relatively piddly $450.00 and comes with the obvious curse of badged tips that say Meagan.

So the question is, whats really in a name? I suppose I could just have the tips re-polished to remove the logos like a boss?

Thanks for letting me think out loud and I will leave you with this:

YoungCR

I say who gives a fuck, its your car, you drive it and if you enjoy the sound then go for it. If they really are the same exhaust, I wouldn't hesitate to buy the cheaper one anyways. Why spend the money if you don't have to.

KaiserRolls

If it's exactly the same then why spend more money?

Same thing happened to me when purchasing a full exhaust for my supermoto. I could have bought a 700-some dollar yoshimura titanium exhaust system, but after searching for a while, found an exhaust builder out of CA who worked with an engine builder and they developed a pipe that performed very similarly (a tad more peak hp) than the yosh pipe. Oh, and the pipe was over 300 dollars cheaper. It was made out of stainless (and it was about 4 inches shorter) so the weight wasn't much of a concern.

Is there any difference in customer support? build quality? (if anything were to go wrong)

So yeah, personally if it was literally an identical twin, who cares? save some quarters for the same sound; just my .02

Oh, and thanks for that video, sounds nice.

AvusHatesCones

^ that's what I've been thinking, the only real concern was (and I know this is shallow) but I don't really want a Megan logo on it. Like I said it's shallow, but, the name just doesn't sound like it belongs on this car I'm sure I can get the tips re-polished to remove the logo though

Also, pics of said supermoto? ^

Ryan...

Go with the Megan parts and use the money saved to buy the CSL intake. That will give you more of the sounds you crave

AvusHatesCones

Ryan... said:

Go with the Megan parts and use the money saved to buy the CSL intake. That will give you more of the sounds you crave

Ohh the CSL intake! one of the best sounds out of a BMW ever! Its just a shame that you have to spend so much on the intake and then $1,000.00 on software

KaiserRolls

AvusHatesCones said:

Also, pics of said supermoto? ^

Here you go. My daily (except for winter)

owned it since '07. 14,xxx miles later as it sits

cosmetic/safety/relocation stuff are easy to see,

But I put in hotcams (in & ex) fcr-mx carb (a bitch to jet perfectly) full exhaust, airbox modification + k&n, etc.

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Brian.

Just go with ITB's. Screw intakes. ITB's with stockings rubberbanded over them for that old school race look.

AvusHatesCones

^That's a sick looking bike!

AvusHatesCones

Brian said:

Just go with ITB's. Screw intakes. ITB's with stockings rubberbanded over them for that old school race look.

I have ITB's

Or do mean stacks?? Because that would be awesome too, but even more money and work

Brian.

I keep forgetting M-series use ITB's. Yes, slap on velocity stacks as well.

KaiserRolls

Thanks! it's a lot of fun too! getting pulled over sucks though

AvusHatesCones

FMU has done it, I just wonder what the drawbacks would be, if any. I could see that being a lot of really hot air going in the engine, where as right now my intake brings in just over ambient temps into the engine. With air being pulled in through scoops in the front grilles and piping coming from the air duct next to the driver side fog light.

AvusHatesCones

KaiserRolls said:

Thanks! it's a lot of fun too! getting pulled over sucks though

Getting pulled over sucks no matter what!

Brian.

If you do velocity stacks you can run a plenum ontop of it, to have an air intake tube from the grill/headlight or foglight area. velocity stacks are fucking sexy sounding too. like, Omg wow sexy

AvusHatesCones

Well I guess that would essentially be the CSL box, six stacks with a filter right in front of them with a plenum surrounding it all.

Brian.

Guess so ;3

WIBIMMERS

Whats in a name?