MS Movie Maker is a buggy piece of crap on my system for some reason, but after farting around with it for a couple of days, I forced it to stop randomly adding 30 to 45 seconds at a time of black screens with no audio to the end of my clips, and threw together a little 2-minute quickie exhaust demo.
I tried to make the recordings as consistent as possible to give a fair comparison - recorded all at the same distances, approximately the same RPM's for revving/cruising/WOT (didn't push the throttle all that hard, since I'm having pinging issues), and used the same road/parking lot/driveway.
Here's the linky:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1461046469
First half is with my old setup: UPR cat'ed X-pipe with Pypes Violators and Dynomax 2.5" SS tails. Second half is the new setup (before I painted the exhaust gloss black with hi-temp paint): Jeg's off-road X-pipe with Dynomax #17676's and 2.5" side-exits. The part in the middle is where I realized I'd forgotten to tighten down the passenger-side header flange (hence the "WTF?!" reaction when I first start it up).
Only gripes I have about the new setup are that I'm probably going to have to take a 5-pound BFH to the underside of my floorboards to beat up a mini-tunnel in the passenger-rear foot area if I ever want to make the side-exits tuck up high enough to blend in visually, but at least I've managed to gain 2" of ground clearance with the swap, and I don't expect to have the same long-term sagging issues I had with the UPR X-pipe (since the Jeg's X has tranny crossmember hangers and the UPR had none). Also, since the Jeg's X comes shipped as a three-piece unit where the two downpipes clamp onto the X crossover section, there's a bit of an audible leak on both sides where the clamps sort of pinch down the tubing - that'll teach me for using those ultra-crappy cheap-arsed clamps that came with it.
I do have a higher-quality 8MB version of the video available that I can post on MySpace if anyone cares - the audio isn't THAT much better, but it's there if anyone so desires - but in either version the camcorder audio just doesn't do either setup proper justice. I really need to invest in a professional DAT audio setup or something extreme to make it just right.
Any thoughts/comments, or recording tips are appreciated. And does anyone else have that same problem with MS Movie Maker freaking out when you try to snip your clips up and refuse to play them in anything but unmodified form? (I had to capture and re-capture each clip over and over and just paste 'em in as-is, since it would freak out and add dead air and black video in my clips, otherwise.)
I tried to make the recordings as consistent as possible to give a fair comparison - recorded all at the same distances, approximately the same RPM's for revving/cruising/WOT (didn't push the throttle all that hard, since I'm having pinging issues), and used the same road/parking lot/driveway.
Here's the linky:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1461046469
First half is with my old setup: UPR cat'ed X-pipe with Pypes Violators and Dynomax 2.5" SS tails. Second half is the new setup (before I painted the exhaust gloss black with hi-temp paint): Jeg's off-road X-pipe with Dynomax #17676's and 2.5" side-exits. The part in the middle is where I realized I'd forgotten to tighten down the passenger-side header flange (hence the "WTF?!" reaction when I first start it up).
Only gripes I have about the new setup are that I'm probably going to have to take a 5-pound BFH to the underside of my floorboards to beat up a mini-tunnel in the passenger-rear foot area if I ever want to make the side-exits tuck up high enough to blend in visually, but at least I've managed to gain 2" of ground clearance with the swap, and I don't expect to have the same long-term sagging issues I had with the UPR X-pipe (since the Jeg's X has tranny crossmember hangers and the UPR had none). Also, since the Jeg's X comes shipped as a three-piece unit where the two downpipes clamp onto the X crossover section, there's a bit of an audible leak on both sides where the clamps sort of pinch down the tubing - that'll teach me for using those ultra-crappy cheap-arsed clamps that came with it.
I do have a higher-quality 8MB version of the video available that I can post on MySpace if anyone cares - the audio isn't THAT much better, but it's there if anyone so desires - but in either version the camcorder audio just doesn't do either setup proper justice. I really need to invest in a professional DAT audio setup or something extreme to make it just right.
Any thoughts/comments, or recording tips are appreciated. And does anyone else have that same problem with MS Movie Maker freaking out when you try to snip your clips up and refuse to play them in anything but unmodified form? (I had to capture and re-capture each clip over and over and just paste 'em in as-is, since it would freak out and add dead air and black video in my clips, otherwise.)
