ANOTHER vararam install issue thread
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: King George VA
I fought with my Vararam for about 5 hours before finally finishing it. I have the Z06 so its a bit easier to install (since I dont have fog lights). Cut my hands up, and cussed a few times, but to me it's definitely worth the trouble... At about half throttle I hear a nice little whistle from the intake. 
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Instructor
Joined: Aug 2011
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From: Johnston Rhode Island
Oh it will work right, everyone loves their gains & performance. It looks right too, the only problem is: if you are **** like me as your installing it, you'd expect it to go ob perfect and fit oem, but the fact is that our cars weren't designed to have these tubes run in that area so it doesn't have the designated room or space to accomodate it & each car is made differently so they manufactured a mass produced piece instead of custom fabbing your own so on each car it will go in differently and not so smooth for some of us lol
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2012
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From: Slatington PA
Oh it will work right, everyone loves their gains & performance. It looks right too, the only problem is: if you are **** like me as your installing it, you'd expect it to go ob perfect and fit oem, but the fact is that our cars weren't designed to have these tubes run in that area so it doesn't have the designated room or space to accomodate it & each car is made differently so they manufactured a mass produced piece instead of custom fabbing your own so on each car it will go in differently and not so smooth for some of us lol
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Instructor
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From: Johnston Rhode Island
LOL no. i mean even the same body style not every single car that comes off the line is identical, each of their fitments is a little bit different, and even their tunes differ from car to car. if you put 5 pairs of headers on 5 different cars, some of their tunes will be spot on, some will be rich, some will be lean
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From: Oak Hill Virginia
LOL no. i mean even the same body style not every single car that comes off the line is identical, each of their fitments is a little bit different, and even their tunes differ from car to car. if you put 5 pairs of headers on 5 different cars, some of their tunes will be spot on, some will be rich, some will be lean
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Instructor
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From: Johnston Rhode Island
you raise a point... just like the f body world how no company could make a nice set of true duals because of such tight fitment coming y pipe factory, until kooks came out with new true duals that they took their time on and made very well and they fit awesome, their expensive but you pay to play.
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From: South Western Ontario
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From: Oak Hill Virginia
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