Supersprint Sports Exhaust Order

Almost a requirement of any good build is an exhaust upgrade. Everyone from school boy tuners to fully blown racers do it. So now it was my turn to have a look. There is a very exhaustive and well written thread (Thanks to aznbo187 over at M3Forum) that covers all of the potential options you could ever imagine for the E46 M3.

Now my drivers for the exhaust were I wanted; an all-in-one ready to go package (as usual), a performance increase, a little bit of extra noise without being obnoxious and a taming of the tinny rasp all E46 M3's have. There are multiple options to address the noise, tinny rasp and all-in-one requirement, but after a bit of research there was only one that offered a confirmed and consistent performance increase and this was the Supersprint option. So with that in mind I was very quickly set on the Supersprint offering without really jumping into anymore research. I didn't see any point spending any money on anything that wouldn't provide a performance gain and as I had a Euro car (and hence Euro headers and cats) the only performance gain was going to be found with Supersprint.

Even with the brand decided there was a few options to make. Although I was pretty locked with what headers I could chose (as I have a RHD car) there is a few to choose from. There is also cats or no-cats Section 1, resonated or non-resonated Section 2 and 3 levels of muffler to chose from. As I wanted this car to be street legal yet track oriented car I decided on the following:

This setup should hopefully give me the increased performance and noise I want (without being obnoxious) whilst being able to pass inspection over here in Australia and be street legal.

I was lucky enough to be able to find an Australian distributor for these who gave me a great package price over at Best Exhaust. So I went ahead and placed an order.

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