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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by neilownz
It would probably be cheaper to do most of it, tow the car to the shop, and have them finish it. Hell if it's not super loud I would drive it there and just keep the rpms low.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by neilownz
It would probably be cheaper to do most of it, tow the car to the shop, and have them finish it. Hell if it's not super loud I would drive it there and just keep the rpms low.
if you get stopped all you have to do is tell them your heading to the exhaust shop to get the rest of the exhaust on, ive done it in 2 cars and have never had a problem, just done be rippin around lol you will be fine
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 08:03 AM
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yes, do the install your self and install a piece of flex pipe over the collector and cat inlet. just cut the pipe to size and lightly clamp the two together then drive to an exhaust shop and have them re
ove the flex pipe and weld the collector and cat inlet together. this is what im going to do. i dont want to get stoped for disturbing the peace and get fined for removing the cat. the flex will leak a little but it would only be temporary. open headers will be way... to loud. use the money that you would spend on a tow truck or install on a dyno tune
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 12:07 PM
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haha all this worry about being too loud i use to drive my off road truck (351w at the time) with opened headers on the street. Never got stoped, even pulled up to a cop at a stop light and all he did was give me the thumbs up HAHAHA.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 12:56 PM
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yeah i dont think it would be a big deal to drive it to an exhaust shop open headers. i drove mine 80 to the exhaust shop with open headers with the 406 in it. that thing was pretty insanely loud.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 01:35 PM
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How much money did Doug Thorley Headers charge us in full for these headers???????? My understanding that was we had enough people to drop the price below $600, correct? I want to know what everyone was charged before I go ballastic on them.

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I just spoke with Eric at DTH and they did over-charge me, they took the deposit again! I had 751 bucks in a set of $600 headers! He's working to correct it, hopefully asap so I can order a FWI today. Shipping was steep, ~$50 bucks, but I'll just chalk that up breaking even on what we saved with the group buy.

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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by crazyjoe
How much money did Doug Thorley Headers charge us in full for these headers???????? My understanding that was we had enough people to drop the price below $600, correct? I want to know what everyone was charged before I go ballastic on them.
644 shipped
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 02:14 PM
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Ok, cool, after they correct the mistake mine will be $651 shipped.

*edit* I'm keeping a close eye on my bank account...................patiently waiting to receive my deposit back.

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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 05:11 PM
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599 + 34.59 (shipping) = 633.59 Total
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 06:00 PM
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633.59 total
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 06:16 PM
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mine was $20.00 total
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 06:32 PM
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Pick my up on Monday,and total price with pick up was $641.41.Local taxes suck ***


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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 06:37 PM
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That's some pretty sloppy business practices - with all the unauthorized charges.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by CenTexSS
That's some pretty sloppy business practices - with all the unauthorized charges.
Agreed. Seems like a relatively small company to handle the volume that they do, though.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by williamGT
mine was $20.00 total


It's official, William. You suck!

I wish we had the mooning smiley.


(I'm kidding, of course.)

Thanks for all your hard work in getting this deal set up. We ALL appreciate it.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by westtexastiger
It's official, William. You suck!

I wish we had the mooning smiley.


(I'm kidding, of course.)

Thanks for all your hard work in getting this deal set up. We ALL appreciate it.
Its $19.48 BTW.
lol I know your kidding, I can't wait to get mine on.
Car goes in on wednesday.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 07:36 PM
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Seeing as how my car is STILL in the shop, I took the headers out of the box, took a picture, and put them back in the box.

I've been driving my mom's car ('03 Sentra with a 1.8L and auto) for 2 weeks now. Going to church last night, I put my foot on the floor, and it took waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to get up to speed. And on top of that, the car is stock, so it sounded like an angry weedeater. I miss my car and it's power AND acceleration. Can't forget the sound, although mine will be changing a lot. I've almost got myself talked into getting Magnaflow mufflers instead of Flowmaster Super 44s.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by westtexastiger
Seeing as how my car is STILL in the shop, I took the headers out of the box, took a picture, and put them back in the box.

I've been driving my mom's car ('03 Sentra with a 1.8L and auto) for 2 weeks now. Going to church last night, I put my foot on the floor, and it took waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to get up to speed. And on top of that, the car is stock, so it sounded like an angry weedeater. I miss my car and it's power AND acceleration. Can't forget the sound, although mine will be changing a lot. I've almost got myself talked into getting Magnaflow mufflers instead of Flowmaster Super 44s.
I really don't like my Impala very much, but it's been at the body shop since Thursday and I've been driving my 96 Crown Vic every day. I think I'll appreciate the Impala a little more now lol

The Vic is more comfortable, but a 14 year old car with no guts gets old fast lol
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 10:14 PM
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I'm wating for some of you guys with exhaust to hurry up and put your headers on so I can see what I want to do. I'm thinking about leaving the stock mufflers on and just putting a 3" cutout on it and maybe changing the stock **** tips too.
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 11:17 PM
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I'm ready to hear mine with the headers. It's going to be even more beastly!
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