My Stillen CBE arrived today , pictures!

Elia Cid

Hi,
The install went without a hitch, around an hour. Greg the service manager and the Martin Nissan mechanic were impressed at the quality of the exhaust and the ease of the install. I also had them performed an oil change using Ester oil, and their larger than stock oil filter.


I also insisted on a walk around before they lowered the car. I was informed that the weakest link in the exhaust system was the three clamps.

I was advised to weld or at least get the stainless steel ones. But for now they’ll hold.

The moment they turned on the car, I felt it was a new car; the sound was deep and mellow, no rasping and not a trace of drone on the road.

I immediately felt the increase in power. Martin, the mechanic, also told me that it was going to be on self-learn mode. I would also have to put up with the odor that smelled like rotten eggs coming from the exhaust for a little while. He also indicated that I didn’t need a tune up, just yet to drive it around a bit.

The only issue was aligning the height of the right tip. When I arrived home, I noticed the right tip looked lower that the left driver side tip.
So I drove back to Nissan and asked Greg the service manger. The mechanic took a look at it and they felt the tip was a bit off and needed to be re-aligned, that meant heating and welding! I just said thanks and that I would not go that route.


When I got home, I measured it with a ruler and to my surprise the tips were the same height and the same distant from the ground on two different surface locations. What was off was the cut out on the car itself! Oh brother how do you fix that and why didn’t I notice it on the OEM exhaust?

I ‘ll just have to live with a 1/3 of inch off rather than lose sleep over it?

Greg the service manger did make an interesting remark. He felt that for my next mod, I should go for Nismo headers , rather than Berk’s HFC.

The OEM headers were very restricted and the that the Nismo were much more open, this way I wouldn’t have to worry about emission or the o2 light going on and given me trouble!

Appreciate your input on all this.

Thanks,

Alex

P.S. Dave, no noting that dramatic I’ll be keep ‘Elia Cid “been using it for lots of years as my web name!
Orpheus had that dark go to hell and back ring to it that appealed to me, for some reason?

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