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Originally Posted by NickTurnon
I have recently been looking for either test pipes, HFC, or y-pipe that gives me a few more horses. I have heard the aam's with test pipes and its awesome.
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Just a little too loud for my everyday driver..
Now, I am in love with the short tails. I have actually had people tell me that they think its a GT-R before they see the car. I love that. I think the simplicity of the "bolt on" concept is great. The only downside is going 50 MPH up a hill. Drone like a mutha'...and the fact that the gains are so minimal, if any.
I would like a better flowing system, and like someone said before... If the price is right, i think its great.
I purchased the short tails for $415 after shipping over a year ago. Obviously prices have gone down a little since I bought mine, but even for $415- thats a hundred bucks or so over what it would cost for custom pipes. For $550, you can purchase a complete full exhaust with gains over +15hp. The only downfall--none of the exhausts online sound like the short tails.
If i was able to get gains and the same sound with less drone..i'd be sold. Sorry, I vented. |
It doesn't take much to release the drone from the vq37hr. You have to remember the short tails delete your main source of sound control and deadening, there is just no way you can do this, get the sound, and have no drone
the exhaust you're talking about for $500 bucks I don't want to get into this debate now but they are that price for a reason.. some have luck, some don't.
I'll give you an example that actually occurred at the shop today. A customer GT-R was brought in to be checked for an exhaust leak, the culprit was a cracked downpipe, right at the turbo flange. We then tried to figure out what brand it was, the first dead give away was the fact that it WAS a shiny polish finish (typical of over the seas products) well it was shiny, but turned to a bronze/gold/purpleish hue so then we found out it's brand, I won't disclose that information, but that brand sells GT-R downpipes for almost half of what we sell ours for. The buying decision is obvious at that point, why pay 2x more for AAM downpipes that aren't even shiny. Well here goes it
Replica brand companies outsource; whether it be the materials only, materials and labor, etc and we all know where it goes to/from.. so we asked why did this downpipe crack, well we measured the gauge metal that was used, it's no where near the thickness of the stainless steel we use. Not to mention we noticed some rusting on the flanges.. they cut corners and use mild steel flanges.. we use stainless steel flanges. It's tough to compete in this market when stuff like this goes down but we just need to stay loyal and really push the idea that all of our parts are hand crafted by a production team that actually makes a proper wage
Be very careful when buying "cheaper" parts. I do not completely discredit them but I also don't fully encourage it. Some will swear by it, some extremely hate it. I personally fall right in the middle. Hey I rock a CNT downpipe on my subaru and that's an Invidia copy, I'm 100% happy with it. Hit or Miss is the best way to describe it
and that's truly my rant on why there are true duals going for $500
/rant