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Old 03-08-2004, 04:32 PM
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I have talked with that guy quite a bit. He is in North Carolina, someplace where cops respect an awesome sounding car. He has said that cops have pulled up next to him at a stop light and asked him to rev it. When he does he gets the thumbs up from them.

I drove it into work today and had to run a couple errands at lunch. I was constantly looking over my shoulder for anything with lights on top of it or anything that resembled an undercover car.
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yeah well i havent been too lucky with the concord cops here, they dont like me too much i got pulled for doin 12 over and was treated like i was doin like 100 over, *** holes man i swear
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Its not my cup of tea at all, but I bet that thing sounds badass on the race track! (which is the only place that car belongs now)
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I bet the sound is something that I would love but like a few others I do not like the looks. I have always liked symetry in a vehicle and I would rather have side pipes exit both sides.
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Originally Posted by blk~2000~Z28
I bet the sound is something that I would love but like a few others I do not like the looks. I have always liked symetry in a vehicle and I would rather have side pipes exit both sides.

But then again, form should follow function.
Oh, looks are always subjective. I copied this thread to my friend... he didn't care for the look either.
I like the look.
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Wow, the looks are way different. Why not just run open headers?


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All I can say is it is to loud for me

I am planning on building a smaller version for my cut out now that I see how to do it
Old 03-08-2004, 11:39 PM
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Wow, the looks are way different. Why not just run open headers?


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There is the extra advantage of having the exhaust "scavenged" out by the 197mph wind he should be seeing (mph found in his sig). Open headers have been shown to be a little down on power in certain setups than an X-pipe or even this boom tube configuration.
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Why not have it exit from both sides of the car splitting off from the X pipe? That would have looked bad ***..
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Sweet setup, i cant wait to hear the clips.
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Originally Posted by Damian
Why not have it exit from both sides of the car splitting off from the X pipe? That would have looked bad ***..
I'll be doing a setup similar to this in about a month. I'm going to use some type of muffler or cat to reduce some of the noise. I'm going to polish the tips of the boom tubes and cut a little into my ground effects. That way the tips will only be 5-6inchs long on each side instead of one monster tip coming out of only one side. I'll post pics when it's done.
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I think it looks really tough. I agree that it would look really good exiting on both sides of the car and rather than painting it, polish those tips up nicely. I love the look of the exhaust exiting in front of the rear wheels like on the lightning and the viper. I wish someone would step up and make a rocker panel to accomidate side exhaust.

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I will be putting a rocker panel together for this. Once that gets on it will really help with the looks. I am also going to be throwing some high temp black paint over the whole boom tube. No chrome for me.

The biggest reason I went with this set up was the price I got for it. I ended into this system for less than 1/2 of normal cost. Once you are all said and done with something like this using all Dr. Gas components, you will be close to or over 1000.00.
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I might go with the summit x-pipe just because it's a ton cheaper. If not then the setup I'm looking at will run about $700. Just for the exhaust. Not including the body work that I'll be doing to get this to tuck up nicely.



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