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Old 11-07-22, 07:36 AM
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GTHaus and APEXi have their systems complete.
I’ve had my APEXi full catback since April.
@Fman2118 Was your setup with the resonated or non-resonated midpipe?
Old 11-07-22, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by 95bat
@Fman2118 Was your setup with the resonated or non-resonated midpipe?
Mine is resonated
Old 11-07-22, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Fman2118
Mine is resonated
Nice, sounded like it, but wanted to make sure.

I think that's the route I'm gonna go.
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Old 11-09-22, 06:59 PM
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GT Haus midpipe is on sale for $700 off!

https://gthaus.com/product/cat-back-...section-sus-3/
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Jeez, that's tempting. I may have to treat myself to an early Christmas present.
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Old 11-10-22, 06:29 AM
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@Meraki Autoworks Nice! Do you know what their "high performance resonator" is? It looks like that means no resonator at all going by pictures lol

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Did people reuse their stock gaskets during install?
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Originally Posted by AmbyBomb
Did people reuse their stock gaskets during install?
They are crush gaskets and reusing them may result in incomplete seal. They are intended for single use.
I bought new gaskets.
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Old 11-12-22, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Fman2118
They are crush gaskets and reusing them may result in incomplete seal. They are intended for single use.
I bought new gaskets.
Exactly this. Spending thousands on a high quality exhaust, worth spending an extra $10 to do things right. If there’s one thing we know it’s that the downstream O2 sensor is very eager to make its presence known.

Related - seen a couple GS-F / RC-F videos so realize it’d sound same/similar, but would love to see IS500 videos for those that only changed out the midpipe.

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Old 11-12-22, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Fman2118
They are crush gaskets and reusing them may result in incomplete seal. They are intended for single use.
I bought new gaskets.
do you happen to have the PN to the gaskets or did you use the ones provided. reading some posts earlier, users were saying the gaskets provided by apexi were junk.
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Old 11-12-22, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by cp2
do you happen to have the PN to the gaskets or did you use the ones provided. reading some posts earlier, users were saying the gaskets provided by apexi were junk.
I was the first to use the APEXi provided gaskets and got the exhaust CEL.

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much appreciated!!! already see that it's cheaper from Toyota...haha
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Old 11-13-22, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by cp2
much appreciated!!! already see that it's cheaper from Toyota...haha
Funny thing is even online suppliers charge a blatant Lexus ‘premium.’ This company sells it for 10% more on their Lexus parts website versus their Toyota parts website. Same exact company, same exact websites (other than the URL).


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Old 11-13-22, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by cp2
much appreciated!!! already see that it's cheaper from Toyota...haha
you could always just buy a Camry. 🤷‍♂️
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