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Old 05-29-2007 | 02:15 AM
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So I'm hearing that I'll be traveling through uncharted waters trying to get the Thunder Racing OTVC kit to work with the stock manifolds... I guess I'm gonna give it a try since it's already paid for Anyone think it can be done?
Old 05-29-2007 | 02:34 AM
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itll be VERY hard.

ps. good luck assembling them, i just got done with mine and my hands hurt. (insert ******* joke here)
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Well, I figure if worse comes to worse I can always put it back to stock by cutting the wires down to the stock lengths and routing them under. I just can't stand how the factory put these things! It's such a pain!
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You're probably going to end up doing more harm than good.
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just go ahead and put longtubes on.
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Yea, it's the solid design that causes the problems. You can't go behind, and going over, while possible, would look kinda tacky. The headers (any) have the huge gap between each exhaust port, where the wires go.
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Yea, I was thinking of going over the manifolds... It might not look too awfull since I got the black wires, we'll see how adventerous I'm feeling The part I'm dreading is the routing from the opti to the VC, which at that point is the same as an install with headers... any hints on this?



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