Instagram

View this post on Instagram

I barely have 300 miles on my car so I’m not changing from OEM any time soon, as I like to experience the difference, but I’m curious about a few things.

I love akrapovic on my Ducati’s but not sure if the extra expense is worth it over some of the other more simple Center muffler deletes. It seems the akra slip on is roughly $5k? Can’t seem to find clear pricing on that. I’d imagine the full system doubles that price.

I’ve had some nice conversations with GMG and they seem like a stand up operation. I asked them to compare their product to sharkwerks which they were very complimentary to sharkwerks and then explained the added cost of their unit. I’m very likely to go that route as I liked their communication and honesty. I also like that they’re a race shop who uses their products on track.

Then there’s GRP/BBI. They seem to advertise a ton. Newer to market? But their unit looks oddly similar to GMG. Why would one choose their unit over GMG? Seems to be identically priced.

I’m no expert, but GMG has been around longer, can anyone tell me why they chose GRP/BBI over GMG?

You’re in Vegas right? Do you have a car that’s currently equipped with GMG? If so, I’d be curious to hear it in person.

Had the pleasure of attending the Grand Prix of Long Beach this past weekend as a guest of BMW for winning a driving contest. Anyway, reading up on the BMW race team, I realized the Rahal family are the principals. So, I shot an email to Graham thanking him again for his incredible GRP/BBi exhaust and let him know I was in Long Beach.

He emailed me back and invited me to swing by the Paddock where the Indy team was set-up for the weekend. I finally made it over there Saturday afternoon about 45 minutes before Graham had to qualify for the race on Sunday. My wife and I both had the pleasure of meeting him. Very friendly and gracious and we really appreciated him taking the time out of his very busy race weekend to spend a little time with us. Great guy and made my purchase of their awesome exhaust bypass that much cooler.

Anyone on the fence, you just can’t go wrong with their system or customer service. I’ve had 5 track days so far with this bypass and it just sounds incredible at full wail at the track and it’s very civil around town when the sport button isn’t pushed and I’m not ripping for redline. Completes the 991.2 GT3 for me.

Fast forward to the middle part of the video for the full throttle sound. I had an external microphone tucked down into the cargo net in the passenger footwell to try to cut down on wind noise. That slight resonance is only the microphone as there is ZERO untoward sound or resonance in person.