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Old Jan 17, 2007 | 11:12 PM
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oh that's good dude. how's the clearance? and get some clips up soon
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Old Jan 17, 2007 | 11:16 PM
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oh that's good dude. how's the clearance? and get some clips up soon
The clearance is ok. I will check it out more tomorrow in the day time. When they finished it was already dark. I took a pic and looked under the car. Seems to be decent clearance.

I think the driver's side may be touching the floor board because i can feel vibrations
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Old Jan 17, 2007 | 11:53 PM
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hmmm...im sure that rattling can get annoying. well, good to hear that they're on man. keep us posted.
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 12:05 AM
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hmmm...im sure that rattling can get annoying. well, good to hear that they're on man. keep us posted.
I might try to stick something in there for now to stop the vibrating. I will post a clip soon
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 01:05 AM
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I love open headers! Until you get that ticket lol. I drove my nova to high school all senior year with open headers! That was in 02' and the health class next door to the autos shop hated me lol Im doin a cam swap on the ls1 right now its on a 111lsa cant wait to hear it open headers!
Depends on your overlap whether it will thump or not.
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 02:50 AM
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Soudns just like my car did with open headers. It was SO LOUD. I still had 30 day tags on my car I would come slowly up next to people and just nail it and take off hah they had to have hated it. I'm sure yours will sound good with true duals
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 10:57 AM
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dude, and don't you love it!!!! i drove around with open headers for nearly a month and cops never said anything!! if i could get away with it, i would honestly tune the car to run open headers

you get the TDs up?

edit: yea, you got em.

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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 10:58 AM
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Soudns just like my car did with open headers. It was SO LOUD. I still had 30 day tags on my car I would come slowly up next to people and just nail it and take off hah they had to have hated it. I'm sure yours will sound good with true duals
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 11:07 AM
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fawking photob isnt working rght now, so i guesss i wont add my open headers drive by to here
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 12:55 PM
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opens headers sound good..but even better w/ a lil lope...
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 09:10 PM
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Scary people was fun with open headers. I might get a clip of my duals tomorrow. But i'm kind of busy so we'll see.
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 11:13 PM
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ha, yeah some people freak out.. I wonder how much quieter the ORY will make it as opposed to open headers? Until Saturday my car is just running Longtubes and a ORY, its pretty damn loud like that, definately wouldnt want it much louder for driving around in town haha
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