The only mods on the car are a steeda strut tower brace thats been installed, 3.73's in the rear, and of course a tri-ax to improve the feel of shifting. Question: If I wanted to get a nice legal exhaust note happening and maybe pick up a few horsepower, whats the best way to go.
1) I want to keep the thing legal cuz emissions here in CT are on-again, off-again.....2) I kinda want to keep the installed price under a grand......this meaning H/X pipe and mufflers...ie: catback..but...what about a replacement for the stock cats.......Ehhhh, as you can probably tell I'm not much of a modifier and only know what I read here..hence, whats the smart move here: Unequal Length Headers, replacement H pipe and then a cat-back system with mufflers? like MAC or Flowmaster or.....??? Are the headers really necessary?
FWIW: The only other mods I will probably ever do is perhaps do a different set of heads......but not anytime soon. The cobra is a 95 and I've just got about 20k miles on the OD.....
Opinions..?
This isn't a racer, its a summer daily-driver.....and I dont put many miles on the car, obviously.