got my macs in yesterday
got my macs in yesterday I read the sticky thread above on the install...I live in an apartment and have no access to a shop or garage for that matter...did the install go as easy as it did in the sticky thread...i have a 99 ta ws6 a4....all stock..help please
i didnt get them from the top for ****. we had to cut the tabs off both sides of the block and jack up the motor. hope yours goes easier than mine did. getting them in was worth it though!
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I just put mine on this weekend and I went in from the bottom. I didnt remove coils or anything up top. Just the small heat shield on the drivers side and ground down the tap on the block (just a little) on the pass side and removed the dipstick. Not bad at all.
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My macs were a bitch to install..... Drivers side went in from top, passenger side went in from bottom, then after 12 hrs of hell, the first runner tube on drivers side was hitting the fat part of the steering shaft, so I had to grind that down....everything is great now but now i'm wondering if the headers are a lil tooo close to the clutch line because now i'm starting to get soft clutch pedal after WOT runs....thinking maybe it's heating up the fluid in the hydralics.....kinda wish I didn't mess with it now
Originally Posted by STK85
What kinda of gains have you guys got from your macs? Can you feel the difference. Does it change the exhaust note at all?
When it's closed, it's very throaty sounding w/ some rasp....I like a lil rasp though 
hehe have had macs for about 3 years...and love em....they do have rasp but i have had sooooo many guys( and girls 
) tell me they love the sound of it....u should hear em w/ a lope .....
) tell me they love the sound of it....u should hear em w/ a lope ..... 
I really like my Macs too, but they were a pain to install. Like miamifan said, the driver's side went in from the top but for the passenger side I actually had to trailer my car to a shop to be put in !
wow i cant believe you guys had that much of an issue getting your macs on mine went on easy both from the top no clearence issues at all. all i had to do was pull the coil brackets and dipstick. i get a raspyness under 3500rpm but im running a mac ory and a magnalflow catback without any kind of cats sounds great about the same as lts imo
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The driver's side header slipped right in on mine, but the passenger side I had to force past the tab, sounds easier then it really was, it just wouldn't go in through the top even though I had taken the coil packs and anything and everything I possibly could off to include the starter. If this ever happens to me again I'll grind a bit off that tab some people were mentioning above, it would have been much easier that way. I had to lift the car pretty high too, but now that it's over I can say it was worth it.