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Old May 3, 2011 | 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by HoLLo
Awesome. You are failing us in one part: sound clips!
It'll be coming soon tomorrow gota get the pieces tig welded up and then final installation and start it up I just ran out of time on the weekend and I am itching to hear it as well
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Old May 3, 2011 | 03:59 PM
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this setup looks awesome! makes me want true duals. waiting for the video clip!!
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Old May 3, 2011 | 04:30 PM
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Hey who's the goof ball in the pic with the thumbs up? Lol
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Old May 3, 2011 | 04:33 PM
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Right out of the box start chopping pipes and tips off on a 1600 dollar exhaust system LOL
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Old May 3, 2011 | 04:41 PM
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I have cme but never thought that I could fit true duels to them. I actually had custom tips made up because the original ones are starting to crack.
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Old May 3, 2011 | 04:52 PM
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I have cme but never thought that I could fit true duels to them. I actually had custom tips made up because the original ones are starting to crack.
Yea that's a common thing but mine have the extra squred aluminum piece in the back and the original broke even with that..going to tig that original little piece again
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Old May 3, 2011 | 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by quik01ss
Right out of the box start chopping pipes and tips off on a 1600 dollar exhaust system LOL
Right out of the box people take a grinder to a $900 intake also..

But hey.. Tis the car world.
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Old May 3, 2011 | 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Orange Juice
I have cme but never thought that I could fit true duels to them. I actually had custom tips made up because the original ones are starting to crack.
SLP actually supplied the later CME tips with extra bracing due to this problem...when I ordered another set from them right before they got rid of their extra stock, they came with a pretty sizable piece of square tubing welded right behind the dinky brace that was supposed to hold them together.

The CME tips aren't anything special that can't be worked around...people have mated them to all types of exhaust, including true duals like what I had done years ago by Speed Inc.
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Originally Posted by quik01ss
Right out of the box start chopping pipes and tips off on a 1600 dollar exhaust system LOL
Lol....x2 Ballsy man....but its a clean set up.
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^ OP's prolly confident in his abilities.. But someone had to try it!
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Lol I had this planned before I even got the box delivered
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Originally Posted by quik01ss
It'll be coming soon tomorrow gota get the pieces tig welded up and then final installation and start it up I just ran out of time on the weekend and I am itching to hear it as well
yea lets get that thing done this week guy..........lt1/ls1 shootout this weekend
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Old May 4, 2011 | 08:04 PM
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sick, Now i have some pictures to work with. I posted a thought about doing this back in Feb on another forum i read. Time to start saving for this exhaust.
Please post some sound clips.

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Old May 4, 2011 | 08:35 PM
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Interesting set up. Looks great!
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Old May 4, 2011 | 11:09 PM
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Started the car after I got all the clamps n stuff on and it sounds awesome and I love it took it up n down the road and let my friend drive it up n down the road to hear it and let the exhaust settled where it wanted to go only noise I haer is where the x pipe goes through the ds loop might put a bracket before the pipe go over the axle to hold it off the loop.. also gota push the tips back a little, to far out for my liking. Will have vids tomor
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bump.... wanna watch the vids!!
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Old May 9, 2011 | 07:43 AM
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heres a little street pull of the car from inside.............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB2tjxiyPYQ
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Sounds good! Time for exterior vids now!
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Old May 9, 2011 | 11:14 AM
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^^^^ +1!
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Old May 10, 2011 | 04:15 AM
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I'm interested in knowing what you did at the tip connection. I noticed that you cut the 2.5" extension off the cme which left you an oval shape. Did you ovalize the 3" to mate to the tips. Awesome work btw I'm glad to see people forging forward on 4th gens.
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