Borla Exhaust System
03-19-12, 01:10 PM
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but does decrease HP by about 10 from what I've read...
03-19-12, 02:21 PM
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Thanks for the tip
I was planning on doing the headers at the same time, but figured I will wait a little while and save some money. Installation will likely cost a few bucks on the headers, and I am also adamant about welding in free flow cats like you did...want to be at least a little environmentally conscious and not delete all cats.
I was planning on doing the headers at the same time, but figured I will wait a little while and save some money. Installation will likely cost a few bucks on the headers, and I am also adamant about welding in free flow cats like you did...want to be at least a little environmentally conscious and not delete all cats.
With that said the car still burns pretty clean and the exhaust smell is only really noticeable in the garage or sitting at a stop with a backdraft and the windows are down. The main reason I did the high flow cats before was to reduce the drone and loudness of the header/PTS JoeZ exhaust combo, which worked but now have the solution solved with the Borla exhaust which keeps the noise down, no worries of cat failure and no potential for power loss.
03-19-12, 03:39 PM
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^^^^James, I'm really not a Green person, but my only reason for putting hi-flow cats on my system was purely environmental. IMHO, it makes no sense to add to the Pollution problem if I don't need to. If I was tracking the car, I would have made them removable.
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03-19-12, 04:12 PM
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. If money was of no concern though I too would go the route of setting the exhaust up with removable cats utilizing vbands, but with that you end up lowering the resale of the exhaust and end up spending nearly another grand on the conversion. (2) cats, (2) test pipes, several vbands and all the labor involved.
03-19-12, 04:44 PM
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Those are good points...and I don't drive very much anyway. If/when I decide to pull the trigger on the Sikky headers, we'll see if I want to spend the extra grand for parts and labor to put in the high flow cats.
03-19-12, 08:02 PM
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03-19-12, 10:57 PM
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