BAM! Mr. Tarrou and this is my 2016 Mazda Miata
now obviously I'm known for my math videos occasionally I've done some
random videos like building couches out of pallets and replacing the front wheel
bearings of my old g35 coupe and I don't really feel the need of doing car
reviews when I see awesome videos out there such as those on savage geeses
channel actually his review of the Mazda Miata is one of the reasons why I chose
to buy this car now when I started shopping for cars I thought oh I'm gonna
go get used Mustang or Camaro or use Corvette or maybe even go crazy and get
a used Porsche Cayman you know get that v6 or that v8 ground go for the high
horsepower numbers that you just get enthralled with with reading all your
magazines and seeing your internet reviews but it was actually not only the
looks of this car but a review that I saw from Dave Coleman talking about the
engineering the wit in the car and a review that savage geese did so I went
out and test rogue one and that was it the next couple of months was trying to
find one of these cars knew that I could get a good deal on and at the time a
couple years ago that was extremely hard to do it gets you know zero to 16 about
six seconds which is the same amount of time my 2004 g35 could manage course
that held four people in an actual amount of luggage but for 155 horsepower
it has plenty of get up and go even though every other review you see online
you know talks about you know Miata is being slow but I have an absolute blast
in it it is so much fun to drive my wife even likes it it handles fantastic and
you know it's not very sporting to talk about but the awesome gas mileage is a
bonus as well my mind there is only two major flaws in this car one of which I
just took care of you can see I've got a Blackbird fab works roll bar which I
wanted to do an install review but I didn't want to
you know at my novice spilt skills trying to instruct someone how to
install a roll bar which may possibly save their life so plus I wanted to
respect the wishes of the designer and producer of this roll bar and keep the
complete design you know confidential since there's a lot of man-hours and
time spent in the design of this roll bar but I would highly recommend anyone
getting or owning the Miata to buy one of their roll bars extremely well
engineered and fits perfectly it took a former student and now a friend of mine
who has some mechanical skills as well as I do as well but he has much more
than I do 13 hours to put this roll bar in the amount of cutting it took to get
the plastics to fit around it compared to the piece that wasn't here just took
a tremendous amount of work you know and I wish that it was a little bit taller
or wider but it is as large as he could manufacture and have it fit the roof and
be able to keep the main you know maintain that factory roof just to
compare what you can see here this is full roll bar tubing is triangulated
inside all the bodywork lifting up the roof a little bit not sure if we can be
able to see this but it comes down and not only mounts at the body at its
factory mounting points and another second place farther down with some
plates but you saw those those bars going down into and mount bolt into the
floor and the wheel well the rear wheel wells giving the car much more
structural strength in the rear is the structure that came out of the car to
install the roll bar you can see that the actual hoops underneath the plastic
hoops that you see from the exterior of the car are just then aluminum tubing
now that's in my mind the first flaw fixed with the car the second now the
second major flaw of this car this sports car
yeah it sounds like a four-cylinder Civic Camry Ford Focus you know whatever
not too fancy ST or RS models but just just just a four-cylinder sound when
you're driving along the road you really can't tell when you need to shift
blipping the throttle to downshift Kyoto nothing exciting it just sounds like a
4-cylinder so today we're going to take out the factory muffler and install this
this is Goodwyn racing roadster super sports
super street exhaust single tip and that is my version of an unboxing video so
this job from what I've read should not take any more than 15 to 30 minutes from
what I've read online and of other people's reviews it just depends on how
tight those bolts are and how long it takes you to wiggle the old muffler out
of the factory hangers okay so this is what we're gonna have to disconnect
there's our rubber hangers two on each side there is our flange coming from the
factory muffler just those two bolts behind those Springs back there I've
also from Goodwin Racing bought a new doughnut seal that goes between the mid
factory mid-pipe and the muffler just to make sure that I don't do this install
and have an exhaust leak and then have to order a part and wait for that to
come in so here's update number one literally
just about one minute since the last clip spend more time making this video
than replacing this exhaust on one part on one bolt the entire Cup trying to
take the nut off the entire bolt the spring assembly came off with it you can
see it just is going to threaten to your new muffler the other bolt actually are
the other nut seized may keep calling it a hole
actually came off tough that stud so we're not the work that stud out of the
factory muffler when I'm finished uninstalling it but
that literally took almost no time at all now I just have to wiggle that
factory muffler around and work in the soap be water to loosen or create some
some lubrication here on these hangers and I'll get that old met factory
muffler out of there okay if you need to and I'm sure some mechanic is gonna tell
me there's an easier way to do this but getting this nut off of that stud is not
easy but a very tight set of vise grips a lot of pushing leverage on a fourteen
millimeter socket got it loose okay I'm gonna be honest getting the stud out
putting these nuts on back-to-back I think I was going to tighten these
together and using the bottom one to loosen it did not work eventually got
this big old channel lock put it down here on the bottom squeezed as hard as I
could and marred it up just a tiny bit but I did get it to come loose so now we
are ready to get this new muffler on I honestly thought getting use hangers to
loosen up would be the toughest part of this job but really it was getting these
studs and nuts out was definitely the hardest part a little spray on a rubber
hanger
twist oh and those come right off so we're just coming in here with some dish
soap and water spray on our stud throw two hangers of our new muffler and we'll
just wiggle that on and push they go I'm pretty easy but I can't do it one-handed
and hold the camera at the same time okay so to use my channel locks and got
these studs in as tight as I can and you can see I've mocked this up a little bit
these are almost look like they should be able to be turned with a you know
regular wrench surprisingly a half-inch wrench was the tightest fit but it just
slid around I tried channel locks and pipe wrench and you can see I'm like
that up pretty good but it shouldn't be a problem as they reinstall this since
of course this nut this flange nut is actually just what compresses the
springs onto the mid pipe here oh and I could be wrong but I thought I remember
the original Road source port muffler is having a flat flange here but this will
appears to be now one that will fit the doughnut sort of washer if you will seal
that's already installed in the car so I might have bought that seal for no
reason I'm just going to leave it the original one in place and see what it
sounds like when we're done here's the new muffler next to the old I believe
the new muffler I had this to memory at one point that I believe that is about
seven pounds lighter than the original stock muffler and it really just has
pretty much a straight-through design so it has been tested independently to add
about seven or eight horsepower to the top end of the car of course I don't
drive my car in a red line all the time so probably just enjoy the sound more
than the extra horsepower okay so if it wasn't forgetting the stud out of the
old muffler and I was really just trying to get the nuts off of the stud that did
come loose because I thought I was going to use it to get the other stud out of
the original muffler this would have actually been literally
maybe a 10 minute job but as it was probably spent more like 45 minutes
because I'm not an actual pro mechanic but at any rate so I'm gonna see if that
this thing sounds like hopefully there's nose exhaust leaks and you know they
never sound the same as they do on video so this is my first time here in this
muffler yeah that is what this car should sound like
I'm excited
you
well this is good one racing roadster Sport Super Sport single tip is their
sort of second most aggressive exhaust their most aggressive Eagle exhausts is
their roadster sport race which clearly is not what I did get but I am extremely
happy with the low base tones and the trouble that you get as you rub up the
motor and I also like the very clean single tip look of the exhaust so I
really absolutely could not be happier thank you good and win racing not that
this is like a promotional video or paid paid promotional video it is I bought
the product and reviewing this for free but your workmanship is very much
appreciated as well as thank you Blackbird fab works for my manufacturing
of my awesome roll bar mr. true BAM go have some fun