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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 10:45 AM
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Just got my car back yesterday with the new long tubes installed and it sounds awesome. Melrose headers, cats delete, X-pipe and mid pipes to delete resonator. Has a much deeper exhaust tone. Installer was impressed with the quality of the system.
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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 12:14 PM
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Nice setup!
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I have the same setup, i have been very happy with it.
recently i ordered a second xpipe from melrose, and did the rest of the run in 3in, then mated to some flow master 40s.

​​​​​​​I love the rumble, and it's nearly deafening in wot like that.
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Old Mar 9, 2017 | 08:27 AM
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Any pics?

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Any pics?

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Or a video??
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congrats. Still trying to get mine installed, itching to hear it and see how much better it runs in the 1/4
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Originally Posted by yd328
Any pics?

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I got a pic of one of the headers. I haven't taken any yet of them on the car.
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[QUOTE=yd328;1594260078]Any pics?

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Here's one.
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I did the same thing with a new set of ceramic coated hooker headers awhile back. It made a big differance performance wise and sounds great. I now have a complete and ported high flow intake,runners,plenum and 52mm bbk throttle body to install. I also have a performance chip and breathless performance air intake system which will be plumped to where the front license plate cover use to be..
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Can you put up a pic of how low the headders hang anybody? Or which brand gives you the most road clearence. TIA
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Nice

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Originally Posted by BV85
Can you put up a pic of how low the headders hang anybody? Or which brand gives you the most road clearence. TIA

If you mean a pic of underneath the car showing road clearance I can do that in a day or two. Just from looking mine seem to have the same or better clearance than the stock cats.
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Originally Posted by 9T3VETTE
Or a video??

Tried to load a vid but it kept denying it.
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Originally Posted by Natrlone93
Tried to load a vid but it kept denying it.
Upload it to YouTube then paste the link here
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Originally Posted by BV85
Can you put up a pic of how low the headders hang anybody? Or which brand gives you the most road clearence. TIA
Here's one looking from ground up and one looking straight across. You can tell nothing is lower than frame.
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If you have a rwhp number from before it would be interesting to see the difference and if it runs leaner now.
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