Well lets just say that it's Christmas on Guam...After Five months and traveling over 5,000 miles from California to Guam crossing the Pacific Ocean, my Berk's Exhaust finally arrived.
I will start off with a review of the packaging and product followed by some pics....
PACKAGING
Let me just say that after traveling over 5,000 miles, I am suprised that this package had no rips or holes...Packaging with A+ The box looked like it just came straight out of Berk's Warehouse...LMFAO!!! A big thumbs up to Bryan and the crew at Berk for making sure that this package was built to take a beating...Also special thanks to my shippers the folks at Triple B Forwaders in Carson, Hawaii, and Guam for making sure that this package was well taken care of. The exterior looked great...It got caught in the rain on back of my truck on the way home, but a little rain never hurt anyone right?!!
Once we opened up the box there was a cardboard box on top with tons of papers..
I then sent in my son to test the packaging, and as you can tell by the pic he was a lot more excited to unwrap this thing then I was...
I knew from all the paper, bubble wrap, and cardboard placed inside that it was built to face the toughest of shipping conditions...It was pretty much built as a box within a box. Especially after surviving the unpackaging conditions that my son put the box and all its papers through...Reminder that letting a kid loose on a package is the ultimate test to see how tough and well a package is actually packaged...Needless to say, the Berks survived
After digging a few inches we came across the mid portion which had my HFC's, the X-Pipe (X-Caliber) and the bag of goodies containing the nuts, bolts, and gaskets.
Once these parts were removed, there was another ton of paper stacked in between, and after digging further we came across the rest of the exhaust with the muffler in the center region and both resonators on the side protected by foam wrap, bubble wrap, and several peices of cardboard to keep the resonators in place.
Beneth that was another layer of paper, followed by another peice of cardboard on the bottom.
The Product Inspection
After going through the whole box I took out each part peice by peice to lay it out for some photos and here's a quick pick of what she looked like laid out...
I then made a formal inspection of each part to make sure that everything was accounted for. There were no scratches, dents, or dings to any parts of the exhaust, and let me just say that this thing is "Blinging!" Welds are beautiful and there are no complaints thus far. All the gaskets and bolts were accounted for and everything came out the way I expected. Big Thumbs up again guys..
I am scheduled for install sometime this week or early next week...which ever comes first...I am one happy camper and can't wait to get the install done...I will be sure to post up a couple of vids...Until then, the only thing that I can say is GREAT JOB BERK! THANKS A LOT! AND YOU DID IT!!!
IT FINALLY MADE IT TO GUAM!!!!!!
Here's the link to my update of the install with vids...
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