Speed Engineering True Dual Exhaust Kits!!
02-03-2017, 12:56 PM
#141
Today 11:09 AM
BrntWS6 This will bury the kooks setup as long is fitment is decent. Wish you guys were a little faster to the party though, kooks tds came out what, 5 years ago?
Yeah,kooks are 3K dollars....this kit is 800.00. I would like to see them side by side tho. I know there has to be a difference but what?
02-03-2017, 01:03 PM
#142
Ok I was quiet about this until now. I bought the set last Thursday. It came in last night. After getting it assembled on the ground I was very impressed. So then I start assembling it under the car. Everything was fitting up nicely then I started to clamp it down. The hardware on the band clamps is the trashiest ******* bolts I've ever used in my life. They started to rip the threads out of the bolt and wouldn't get tight enough to cinch the pipe down. So it's midnight and nobody is open I went to bed pissed off. Looked up band clamps and said there is no way I'm spending $15 pet clamp. You would need 10 of them. So after waking up in went up to ace hardware and bought:
10x 3/8 x 16 x 2" bolts
10x 3/8 x 16 nuts
20x 3/8 washers
Reassembled the band clamps and now they work great btw the head on the bolts and the nuts are 14mm so you can get a socket and wrench on them. Total cost? About $10 for all the grade 8 hardware. I called Speed-engineering and told them my findings and suggested they include a zip lock baggie with good grade 8 nuts and bolts. The guy I talked to didn't seem all that interested and said that's what their factory supplies them with.
10x 3/8 x 16 x 2" bolts
10x 3/8 x 16 nuts
20x 3/8 washers
Reassembled the band clamps and now they work great btw the head on the bolts and the nuts are 14mm so you can get a socket and wrench on them. Total cost? About $10 for all the grade 8 hardware. I called Speed-engineering and told them my findings and suggested they include a zip lock baggie with good grade 8 nuts and bolts. The guy I talked to didn't seem all that interested and said that's what their factory supplies them with.
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02-03-2017, 01:41 PM
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...The hardware on the band clamps is the trashiest ******* bolts I've ever used in my life. They started to rip the threads out of the bolt and wouldn't get tight enough to cinch the pipe down. So it's midnight and nobody is open I went to bed pissed off. Looked up band clamps and said there is no way I'm spending $15 pet clamp. You would need 10 of them. So after waking up in went up to ace hardware and bought:
10x 3/8 x 16 x 2" bolts
10x 3/8 x 16 nuts
20x 3/8 washers
Reassembled the band clamps and now they work great btw the head on the bolts and the nuts are 14mm so you can get a socket and wrench on them. Total cost? About $10 for all the grade 8 hardware...
10x 3/8 x 16 x 2" bolts
10x 3/8 x 16 nuts
20x 3/8 washers
Reassembled the band clamps and now they work great btw the head on the bolts and the nuts are 14mm so you can get a socket and wrench on them. Total cost? About $10 for all the grade 8 hardware...
02-03-2017, 04:19 PM
#150
For you guys changing out the fasteners on those supplied clamps, I would recommend using interference/crimp type lock nuts as 304SS has a high coefficient of thermal expansion, which may lead to standard non-locking nuts loosening and possibly falling off over time. Genuine Torca clamps are configured with such type nuts for a reason.
02-03-2017, 09:18 PM
#152
is it me or does the links take you to the website with no sign of the exhaust kits. I have a high dollar kooks header/true dual kit with magnaflow mufflers I'm about to install. comparing this to the crazy amount of money i have in the kooks makes me what to try to sell it or something.
02-04-2017, 08:53 AM
#155
I can't believe how cheap this kit is compared to kooks. It looks like their mufflers are 2 inches shorter than the kooks which makes the swappable mufflers list even smaller. I was planning to switch the oval magnaflow mufflers in my kooks setup but those are the same length as the kooks mufflers. not sure if 2" longer mufflers would work in this kit or not.
