Man, this thread is an easy answer..
First of all, think of it from their point of view..The "ricer" is just now getting into cars and doesn't know an valve cover from an oil cap. Second of all, their knowledge isn't based from an car guy, a shop, or even a book. Most of it is comming from the movies that they see at the Theater or their "friends" ideas who prob don't know any better. They think that since they saw it in the F&F that it has to work. Also, getting an exhaust done is very cheap compared to anything, and those freaking fart pipes are usually cheaper than anything. When I bought my cavy, I had to much peer presure to get an "fart cannon" from all of those little punks that have them because they say they are great and really do free up so many horses..Screw that..I wont have an fart pipe on my baby. I now have an Magnaflow that is deep and low toned..Not ricy..These kids just need to shop around and spend some time on the computer researching.
Just my 2 cents..lol I could be wrong though.