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CAYMAN EXHAUST BOLT ON SOUND WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS I DEAFEN MY NEIGHBORS CLUB MEMBER MIKE REHAK So, on a late December Saturday afternoon, Fred invited several people over to hear the “new” exhaust for his car and to mock, I mean help put on the new exhaust for my car. We needed to use the lift, so Fred had to move his Porsche and show off the new exhaust. 04 YEARS With everyone standing outside the garage and with clever use of the afternoon shadows, Fred fired up his car and the “new” exhaust. Man, did it sound fantastic. As everyone peered into the gloom of the garage, it suddenly dawned on them that the wing on the rear of the car was just a bit bigger, and that the front fenders looked a bit different. Fred did not have a new exhaust for his Riviera Blue GT3. It was the same exhaust, My 2006 Cayman S gathered quite a few modifications over its 70k mile journey with me. It acquired Side stripes, a Numeric Racing short shifter, wheel spacers, new taillights, new headlights, a front splitter, headers, and of course a cat-back exhaust. I learned a lot working on that car. One of the first mods I did on that car was to put on an Agency Power cat-back exhaust in my brother-in-law’s garage with the car on jack stands. I liked that system and it sounded great, but I never got the burbles and cackles on the overrun that make your spine tingle. Along the long trip back from Arizona, one thing kept bugging about the new Porsche. It had the stock exhaust and boy, was it quiet. I had grown used to that flat six wail at wide open throttle, and though the new car wailed, it just did not seem right. There was something missing. It was quiet, but too quiet. Fortunately for me, Fred Quintana had a cat-back exhaust from his recently departed 2013 Boxster S that would fit nicely. 58 Der Sportwagen