Corsa sport review

[Brownsfanhere]

Love my corsa as well. Congrats BlueCrayon on your new set up.

[BlueCrayon]

I put mine on last night - Corsa 14873BLK. I did it by myself with a can of WD40 and two deep sockets. The process was 3 hours, and a lot of profanity. I have zero mechanical ability, so I'm sure others could do it much quicker. Taking the old exhaust off was a challenge. Everything I read said to slide it out the back over the axle, but I could not get it completely out going that route. I ended up sliding it back as far as I could, and then pushing it forward to where it dropped to the floor. I was then able to slide it out on the ground. Putting the new exhaust on was relatively easy. The exhaust has a nice rumble at cold start. I don't notice anything in V4 other than a little rumble. Blue Crayon was correct, this exhaust is louder than I expected. Sound is great at highway cruising speed and under heavy throttle. The only thing that bothers me is there is a strange resonance under light throttle, going up a grade, at around 1700-2000 rpm that bothers my ears. I'm going to tighten everything up tonight, and hope that with a little "breaking-in" that sound will disappear (or I'll get used to it!).

 

It sounds awesome doesn't it! Glad you like it. Yeah there is some resonance or something around 15-2000, but if you drive at WOT all the time you don't notice it much!

I still haven't gotten under to do a retighten yet either. I just like that it doesn't sound like every other pickup, it's actually noticeable even at light throttle and idling. Always turns heads.

[pcruis1]

 

It sounds awesome doesn't it! Glad you like it. Yeah there is some resonance or something around 15-2000, but if you drive at WOT all the time you don't notice it much!

I still haven't gotten under to do a retighten yet either. I just like that it doesn't sound like every other pickup, it's actually noticeable even at light throttle and idling. Always turns heads.

I put about 500 miles on it this weekend and re-tightened everything up to the recommended specs. Sounds great. Even the wife seems to like the sound, which is a real shocker to me. The resonance at 1500-2000 isn't really bothering me anymore, but I am noticing the switch between V4 and V8 a lot more than I did at first. The sound isn't bad, it's just different than the sound in V8. I can live with it, but I think I'm going to turn off the V4 mode nevertheless. With the exhaust and my other mods, the truck is a real pleasure to drive.

[pcruis1]

UPDATE: I've had the exhaust for about two weeks now. The resonance I mentioned in prior posts has disappeared.