It feels like this moment has been coming for quite some time. Once we found the missing link that brought our exhaust together, it was only a matter of time before we pulled the trigger. Laying out the pieces is was very tempting to bolt the straight pipe to the test pipe and see how raspy the Miata could be, but for the sake of our neighbors and the environment, we went with the resonator and kept the cat in place.
Being the lazy parts installers that we are, instead of dropping the Cannon brace that ties the rear suspension together and encompasses the one-piece factory cat-back, we chose to employ the hacksaw method. Hopefully, the cut was straight enough and in a place where it can be put back together easily if needed. Everything looked good laid out on the floor, with a little tease of the Butterfly brace that will one day reside up in the underside of the Craigslist Miata.
