Stillen Exhaust/Intakes/HFC Install

Nitex

After a month of having my exhaust setup i figured its time to post my thoughts and a few pics/vid of the results.

I decided on Stillen for the catbacks and intakes with Berk high flow cats. I was affraid of the "cutting" needed to install the gen'3s but decided to go with them due to the great reviews everyone seemed to give them for performance and sound.

On a side note, i wasnt sure how i was going to get everything to the shop Just a heads up to plan on taking everything in another vehicle or use sheets and towels to wrap everything up.



The install of the Stillen cat back was easy. From my research it seemed it could be hit or miss in reguards to fitment however i had no issues. Tip allignment seems good side to side, yet feels some what low to me.




How ever installation of the Berk HFC and the Gen 3 intakes was a different story. Starting with the driver side top bolt on the stock cats! The passenger side was tight as well but eventually gave. Yet the driver side refused to budge. After an hour working on this one bolt alone, we finally got the sucker off.



After that everything bolted up well. Now on to the Gen 3 Intakes! My mechanic got cut happy on the first hole and... well ill let the image speak for itself.



This was the first 370 intake install for this shop. Thankfully they learned enough on the first go to make a proper hole on the driver side, and the rest was a breeze.




Unfortunately with the passenger side intake hole to large, there was now room for it to move around so I had them fab a bracket up for temporary purposes. I plan on removing the bracket and putting a small ammount of heat wrap on the pipe in that area to close the gap, unless anyone has any suggestions?



My thoughts in the end are somewhat of a mixed bag. I do love the sound, yet at times the loud hiss/rattle on decel truely annoys me. On the performance side of things my but dyno wants to tell me im that much faster. However i realize i need a tune and some dyno results to get an accurate result. I plan on getting tuned next weekend, and i will post up the charts soon. Here is my video with start up and a drive around town.

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