Preference on Secondaries

vanillagoorilla · Jul 23, 2025

So I dont see much difference between the choices. Take the ARK and the DC, cost is the main difference as far as i can tell.
What am I missing?
You all have a preference?
What is it?

KDM Racer · Jul 23, 2025

If you have the RWD then the DC Sports are a great option especially for the price. AWD guys can use it as well but the brackets for the bolts in between the pipes are in different spots so you won't be able to bolt them down in that spot. We are an authorized dealer for both DC Sports & ARK and you can use the promo codes on our site to get yourself a discount

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Plakchup · Jul 26, 2025

There really isn't any difference between them much. I mainly went with the ark due to good feedback with fitment from others. Mine are the RWD pipes so I had brackets put on for extra support since my car is AWD.

How it sounded after with borla non valved on a 23 GT2 with K&N intakes:

djerickd · Jul 28, 2025

all the same, get the cheapest.

BIG-D · Jul 31, 2025

Just punch out ya secondary cats... takes 10min costs nothing.

Soon as you change up to twin 2.5" pipe you get drone right under your seat.

InvestorZ_GT2 · Sep 26, 2025

Does adding these mean you cant add resonators?

jinthadell · Sep 26, 2025

BIG-D said:
Just punch out ya secondary cats... takes 10min costs nothing.

Soon as you change up to twin 2.5" pipe you get drone right under your seat.

Was thinking about doing just that! And yeah for $0! Def a W!

Daniel @ K8 Stinger Store · Sep 26, 2025

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djerickd · Sep 27, 2025

jinthadell said:
Was thinking about doing just that! And yeah for $0! Def a W!

Might do this to my primaries and put the OEM secondaries back on..

BIG-D · Sep 27, 2025

If you mean factory primaries good luck lol it's a bit squished getting into them because of the bends.

I actually did mine from underneath still bolted on the car... probably die in another year from breathing in the particulate dust.

globalrebel · Oct 1, 2025

BIG-D said:
Just punch out ya secondary cats... takes 10min costs nothing.

Soon as you change up to twin 2.5" pipe you get drone right under your seat.

If you don't care about future SMOG checks and such, then yeah . . . that makes sense.

I live in CA and have to get it smogged every 2 years after 2030, so I'll be making sure I can swap back to stock and pass SMOG.

I will say that the DC Mids do not have the best fitment. I had to futz around a lot and even after a that it still wasn't great. But, no leaks and car sounds fine.

I don't get any drone while driving, but I do get a slight vibration under driver seat at startup for like 20 secs. Outside of that, sounds exactly the same as stock in Comfort mode (maybe a TINY bit deeper)

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