Hey all, at the end of the summer I plan to buy all my turbo parts, and hopefully have it all working before Christmas. I'm going to be doing a dual exhaust with turbo- it's really more of a personal style thing than any functional gain from it. I LIKE the look of it- so why the heck not? >>

Of course, I don't have the exhaust piping yet- but I was wondering.

Should I now, buy one of the mufflers I plan to get and install it on the car?

After the dual point, it's going to be 2.5 inch piping on the new exhaust (3" to the dual point) so I know thats not too big- and since I'm not expanding my stock piping, will it result in the loss of low end torque? I don't care if it doesn't GAIN me anything- basically I want to see how the muffler looks on the car and how it sounds (although I understand the sound will change when I turbo). I figure do this before I buy 2 mufflers- and possibly not like the sound.

So basically I want to: buy one muffler, install now. test. see how it looks/sound. if I like, order a second muffler. When the turbo is installed, have custom exhaust put on, use the one slightly used muffler and a brand new muffler to be the two mufflers.

Is this a BAD idea? or no harm done?

for the installation of the muffler i do not see any problems with that. Dont expect though that the noise will be the same when Turboed. for the rest of the exhaust you must waight until you finish the turbo project as you will probably need a new downpipe to handle the heat.

I would postpone all exhaust related matters to after the completion of the turboing but i have to tell you i am not really that knowledgable on swaps and turboing.

Thanks neo- yeah, I know the sound will change- but it won't change from "non ricy" to ricy etc etc. and I wasn't goint o do the piping.