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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 02:18 PM
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just installed aset of coated Pacesetter's with the ORY.
went in pretty smooth (with a little coaxing on the drivers side). they sound great with the borla at WOT. Thanks a ton to TSP for getting them here so quick and to 2002silverws-6 and Tileman for help on the install!
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 02:49 PM
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Sweet, i ordered mine several days ago. I'm also running borla, does it sound pretty tame under normal driving or can you obviously tell its a header car?
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 02:56 PM
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love the sound of mine as well
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 03:30 PM
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you can definetly tell that the car has headers all the time. its just a constant deep rumble until you jump on it . it took me a little while to get use to how loud it actually was. i dont think that any of my neighbors are use to it though
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 04:09 PM
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Right on... just ordered a set of PaceSetters with the ORY yesterday. Any fitment problems with the y-pipe, or did that go in smoothly?
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 04:15 PM
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the ORY went pretty smooth. we did have to cut about an inch and a half to 2 off of the intermediate to get the y to fit. it was a REALLY tight fit as far as hitting the floor board...once it was on we just used a pry bar to push it away a little....no more rattles...good luck with your set!
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 04:47 PM
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Well, cutting the i-pipe shouldn't be a problem... I had an SLP y-pipe put on a couple of years ago, and the idiots at the exhaust shop I went to welded it to the i-pipe... which means when I do my header install, I'll have to cut the SLP y-pipe off... so I suppose while I'm doing that, I'll chop an inch or so off of the i-pipe.
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 06:44 PM
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how hard was it to put in? and like how much did u have to bend the pipe? and was is easy to bed? should i bring a heat gun to heat up the pipe incase i wanna bend it or would that not do anything
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Old Nov 29, 2003 | 06:54 PM
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it was a little tight until we got a couple of guys in there to pull down on the headers to slide the y pipe on. After it was on we used the pry bar to give just enough space so it wouldnt rattle against the floor board. I should mention that we forgot to take the heat sheild of on the driver side of he car which didnt help with the rattle and i wasnt about to take the header back off just to get to the heat sheild. you could use a torch or something to heat the y pipe up to bend it with but i really dont think that you need to. just pry enough so you can slide your hand flat between the pipe and the bottom of the car.
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 12:32 AM
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How much did you pay for your header install. I know a guy that does superb work and almost free.
Time to get some tires and converter.
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 10:19 AM
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How much did you pay for your header install. I know a guy that does superb work and almost free.
Time to get some tires and converter.
I know that guy....


2000blackta...I hear the car runs pretty good with the dipstick out
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 01:18 PM
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its all about the weight reduction brotha.........hey 2002silver....you can talk people into pretty much anything....definetly time for tires and the converter
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 03:44 PM
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I have pretty much the same set up.
I too love the sound.
I used a Twister bullet to kill the rasp.
how do you like that rasp?? you know the 2000-2300 range???
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 05:35 PM
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to be honest i havent really noticed it.
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Old Nov 30, 2003 | 06:41 PM
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i dont have any rasp wtih the dual dual slp
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