Tell me what you guys think.
Anyone who has done it, do you have any tips onthings I might have overlooked?
Eric
Thanks for the compliment. Kevin(roush2k) did a great job of formatting everything. (He is awesome with photoshop and web hosting tools.)
The install took a solid day. I would say about 9 hours. If id did it again I could easily cut the time to 6 hours. (I was taking my time and writing a lot of stuff down as I went.
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As far as feeling a difference it's hard to say. I hadn't driven the car for a week so I couldn't do a really good back to back comparison. I will get it dynoed to see what kind of gains I got. I have the stock Bullittt cat-back and it sounds pretty mean under full throttle. I can only imagine what it would sound like with magnaflows or something a little more agressive!
Eric
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Did you listen to the mpeg at the bottom of the page? You can get a pretty good idea of what it sounds like. (Ignore Kevin saying go... go, we were at his place and I was afraid I was going to piss of his neighbors so I was taking it pretty easy)
When I get back from my business trip next week Kevin and I are going to make a sound clip of me doing a full throttle drive-by. (This is when it sounds the best.)
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to let you hear it in person. I just got the O2 harness extension late yesterday.
Eric
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The car sounds bad ass. I'll drive down Thursday and we can swap cars again. That will be a good indication of what the difference is.
If I'm home on Thursady it's a go! Pray for good weather. I'm in Columbus, Ohio as I write this, but I'm scheduled to fly back Wednesday eve.
Stoked,
Did you ever get you exhaust leak fixed?
I've had the SES light come on once. It turned out to be a "delayed O2 sensor reading" I'll have to see how often this crops up and decide if I need to get a chip burned.
BlownMystic,
LT's were $500+tax and shipping
Catted H-pipe was $300+tax and shipping
Figure about $1000 bucks by the time you by O2 harness extenders and other odds and ends.
Eric
The fitment of your LT's sound like a nightmare. On my car everything lined up perfectly. I reused most of the stock studs and only had to use a bolt in one location. I went to kragen adn found a bolt the same threadcount and size as the ones supplied by BBK, but it was longer by 5mm. This allowed me to put a lock washer on it so I don't have to worry about it baacking out.
I thought the code was wierd also. I ahd Bill at Apex pull it and I thought for sure it was going to be a rear O2 sensor warning. I figured even though I'm running the cats they don't clean as much as the stock ones. Once Bill told me what the code was It mnade sense. The O2's are alot farther down the line than they used to be. I'ts possible that the computer has gotten more picky with the later models as they are always trying to tighten the emmisions on these things.
Eric
Stoked,
I really need to get an mpeg of the car while it is accelerating. The sound is awesome. I hope to be able to do it this weekend if the weather permits.
Eric