CME install
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Staging Lane
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: (Lincoln/Fairbury, NE)
My stock tips are on now but I'm going to cut them off before it goes in. I just wanted to know if there is room to install the cme tips without taking the valence back off after it is painted.
Theres some room. BUT be careful welding up the pieces near the valance. Heat will melt it. You need about an inch clearance from the tips to the valance. Hers my first set of ugly tips....the quad-si-motos
I had plenty of room for mine. My exhaust guy worked really hard on my setup and we were bouncing ideas off of each other throughout the install and what we came up with was swelling the 90* elbows so that the ends of the elbows fit snugly inside the ends of the tip, but still allowed movement. This allowed me to move the tip side to side and up and down to get it exactly where I wanted it and I used 2.5" band clamps to secure it instead of welding it. However, I did weld the elbows to the tailpipes so that the connection would be solid there.
^ That is pure sex. I want to run a cme on my car with a gmmg so bad I can't stand it. I just can't justify the price for the valance, the elbows and the tips. Just too much money for me, well, for the wife, lol.
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Staging Lane
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: (Lincoln/Fairbury, NE)
Do what i do, i put money into my paypal account. Ill send whatever i can afford to without hurting me when bills come, build that money up to the price of the parts i want then buy them. Dont break my wallet that way.
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there paying for the other shop to fix it right? that's messed up. I helped the shop center my tips cus I wanted them to be perfect as possible and like they say no one will do it better then the owner
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If I lived close to you bro I would go back to the shop with you and make them fix that ****!!! then if they messed it up more I would bill there *** with SLP cost then report them to the BBB. dont spend more money make them fix it
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Staging Lane
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: (Lincoln/Fairbury, NE)
I had the valence painted where i'm originally from then had them install it. I had to go back to lincoln where I live and didnt want to drive with the exhaust shooting on the valence. So I figured that the local exhaust shop should be able to accomplish this task because it really didnt look that difficult to me. My dad emailed me these pictures this morning and I was not impressed one bit.