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Old 09-29-2009, 12:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Let's hope my experience goes better than yours have. I have an experienced shop installing the exhaust on Saturday. If they have problems, then there are likely still design problems with the exhaust. I'll be eagle-eyeing everything as well!
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Let's hope my experience goes better than yours have. I have an experienced shop installing the exhaust on Saturday. If they have problems, then there are likely still design problems with the exhaust. I'll be eagle-eyeing everything as well!
My bet is everything will go OK.

If I had known what I was getting into I'd have taken it immediately to a shop and not even bother trying to **** with it myself. There really is a difference between someone who does this everyday and someone who does it every 2-5 years.
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Mine's been absolutely fine. I upgraded the Cheezy "U" clamps with some T-Bolts though. No issues, no rubs, no fitment issues. Sound is perfect and I will not be going to HFC's or headers for that reason. Car runs like a beast and I'm coming from a modded '08 Corvette. Nothing else needed until I get tempted by a supercharger kit....

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Mine's been absolutely fine. I upgraded the Cheezy "U" clamps with some T-Bolts though. No issues, no rubs, no fitment issues. Sound is perfect and I will not be going to HFC's or headers for that reason. Car runs like a beast and I'm coming from a modded '08 Corvette. Nothing else needed until I get tempted by a supercharger kit....

Where did you get those T bolts? I wouldn't mind picking some up for the install Saturday just to improve things without going back later. Also, what size did you buy?
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Mine's been absolutely fine. I upgraded the Cheezy "U" clamps with some T-Bolts though. No issues, no rubs, no fitment issues. Sound is perfect and I will not be going to HFC's or headers for that reason. Car runs like a beast and I'm coming from a modded '08 Corvette. Nothing else needed until I get tempted by a supercharger kit....

Ended up ditching the U clamps and had the shop weld the slide tubes. The shop felt the same way. The guy said: "at least they could have included some nice bands instead of the chincy U clamps."

Also it's the high flow cats that really makes one loud. The first thing I did was the high flow cats that dynoed 12 hp addition, but honestly wasn't prepared for the difference in noise. Under 3500 rpm the stock system with cats pretty much sounds stock, over 3500 it's a real surprise in the difference in noise.
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