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Old Mar 7, 2010 | 10:24 PM
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http://raleigh.craigslist.org/pts/1633313393.html is this a good deal? if so what kind of pipes and are they worth a crap? help please!
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Old Mar 8, 2010 | 12:58 PM
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I would try to contact the seller to determine what type of pipes they are.

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Seems like a good price, but it is really hard to tell based on the picture quality. As for side pipes themselves, I love mine!!
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Old Mar 8, 2010 | 02:26 PM
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It looks like the patriot universal side pipes that someone has setup to go to a stock manifold:
http://www.jegs.com/i/Patriot+Exhaus...H1050/10002/-1
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They look like Patriot's.
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Old Mar 8, 2010 | 10:07 PM
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Those are Patriots , they are the same as the ones you see in my avitar. Don't buy them. They sit too low and will drag on everything if your car sits at stock height.
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Originally Posted by bj1k
Those are Patriots , they are the same as the ones you see in my avitar. Don't buy them. They sit too low and will drag on everything if your car sits at stock height.
Do they sit that much lower than hooker side pipes? I have looked at the patriots a few times and have considered picking up a set. can you measure the clearance from the bottom of the pipe to the ground and from transmission crossmember to the ground? That would help a few of us out a lot - so we know how much lower they sit than the rest of the body.
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Originally Posted by Kevins77
Do they sit that much lower than hooker side pipes? I have looked at the patriots a few times and have considered picking up a set. can you measure the clearance from the bottom of the pipe to the ground and from transmission crossmember to the ground? That would help a few of us out a lot - so we know how much lower they sit than the rest of the body.
Sorry, I already took them off. I'm in the process of installing factory style replicas from Sweet Thunder. They are like the originals except they improved some of the factory problem areas by using stainless in the ends where the originals rusted out. The Patriots aren't even worth what the sell them for. They are low quality and will rust within a year if you don't continuously clean and wax them .
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Originally Posted by Kevins77
Do they sit that much lower than hooker side pipes? I have looked at the patriots a few times and have considered picking up a set. can you measure the clearance from the bottom of the pipe to the ground and from transmission crossmember to the ground? That would help a few of us out a lot - so we know how much lower they sit than the rest of the body.
Patriots sit below the frame. Hookers mount to the frame and are no lower than the frame itself.

Patriots:


Patriot fake 4 into 1:
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The real thing (Hookers):

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