Anyone Tried AE Performance Sports Exhaust from EAS????

[mact3333]

EAS selling this exhaust for very reasonable price and sound clips from EAS website sounds very good...anyone have experience with this exhaust????


http://www.europeanautosource.com/pr...oducts_id=3661

[LarThaL]

Originally Posted by mact3333

EAS selling this exhaust for very reasonable price and sound clips from EAS website sounds very good...anyone have experience with this exhaust????


http://www.europeanautosource.com/pr...oducts_id=3661

Don't know about the sound, but the fitment in that pic looks very "low budget"

[Fsarc]

Here you go..............

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthr...ht=performance

[J08M3]

Originally Posted by mact3333

EAS selling this exhaust for very reasonable price and sound clips from EAS website sounds very good...anyone have experience with this exhaust????


http://www.europeanautosource.com/pr...oducts_id=3661

They actually claim 18 hp on EAS site which is hilarious and bullshit

[mact3333]

More i look into this exhaust the more I am impressed!...a bargain for the price....the sound is throaty and mean....even more so than the BMW Performance Exhaust...sounds meaner than the Eisenmann Race...if anything, this thing is very raw and loud, that would be my only concern.

Im very tempted to get this...the quality doesnt look too shabby to me either....like the 83mm tips also.

Not sure why more people are not buying this exhaust for less than 2K.

But agree that 18 extra HP is bs...but I dont believe any of the numbers I see claimed for any exhaust, I would get purely on sound and aesthetics.

[J08M3]

I remember the company was on here quite a bit promoting it just as it was coming out and claiming zero drone. Jet after some users came back with reports of some drone the company seemed to disappear off the forum. But the price is better than many other choices.

[kitw]

Not that I should talk, seeing as how I've bought many many exhausts. But $2000 for a rear section is reasonable?!?! I think somewhere around $700 of that is the M3 tax on top of the $300-400 BMW tax

[Richbot]

It's tied for my favorite for looks with the BMW performance and is my favorite as a stand-alone catback for sound so far. The handmade in the USA B&B exhaust is just as nice though and makes the $2k price look kindof stupid, that one goes for under $1500 shipped and B&B has a much, much longer track record. There's probably a Hype-afornia/Westside tax in there too somewhere

[inter1032]

Originally Posted by J08M3

I remember the company was on here quite a bit promoting it just as it was coming out and claiming zero drone. Jet after some users came back with reports of some drone the company seemed to disappear off the forum. But the price is better than many other choices.

there probably just busy and the owner has been going through alot with his health over the past year

[kitw]

BTW, if you couldn't find it, here is my review with some video:

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthr...tobahn+exotics

[mact3333]

Originally Posted by kitw

BTW, if you couldn't find it, here is my review with some video:

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthr...tobahn+exotics

This sounds very similar to the BMW performance exhaust imho but at 1/2 the price...also, considering Akro slip on is 3400.00 and Eisenmann Sport is 2800.00, the 1995.00 price tag doesnt sound too bad.

I havent heard the B&B exhaust for 1500.00 though.

Why did you get rid of this exhaust anyway??...the drone at 1800 rpm??


EDIT: just listened to the BB exhaust, dont like that tone at all...reminds me of Supersprint and Borla...has that flatulent buzzing sound...

[kitw]

It's totally different sounding than the BMW performance exhaust. The performance exhaust is Iconel and lighter, plus it is completely stock sounding at low throttle openings. The AE is aggressive and bassy, the BMW performance is higher pitched.

Honestly, they sound nothing alike, unfortunately the cameras don't do a great job of capturing it. The main thing you are paying for with the Performance exhaust is a stock level of drone. The AE was not quiet around town and was a touch droney going up hills, etc. I found it too bassy and droney at low RPMs, although it was much less so than the Magnaflow.

[Richbot]

Yeah they don't sound the same to my ear either.

[Draff1]

I heard the AE at EAS with a challenge xpipe. It's relatively loud with some drone. Fairly well made locally in Socal and the guys at AE are pretty responsive. Overall a nice solution if you like it moderate to loud. Not sure I would use a catless X-pipe with it but it's subjective.

Downside is $2000 for a niche exhaust that is no better or worse than some of the other 100 or so exhausts on the market for an M3. I'm personally tired of paying the BMW tax that tuners apply to pricing for parts for M3's. A good stainless rear section should cost no more than a grand. It only looks like a good deal when compared to the other overpriced exhausts we have to choose from.

As stated earlier, their HP gains make me laugh so for me, it's a bit of a turn-off. Look at any straight through design like Akra or Dinan and they claim 3-6 HP. Exhausts don't magically make HP they reduce restriction so any straight through design is going to max out roughly the same.