Brand: GT-R (by Classic Performance)
Price: $549 + shipping for forum members
Purchased From: http://www.Classic4Performance.com
Installation: Very easy to install. Getting the stock piece of junk off is another story but the new stuff fits into place very nicely.
Installation Time: About 2 hours, but give yourself 3.
Any Installation Tips You Have: Three major things..
First off, make sure you have a friend helping you. You will spend 8 hours doing this yourself or just 2 if you have an extra pair of hands.
Second, WD40 all the stock hangers about 10 minutes before you dig into the system. The dry hangers will hold onto the stock system like you wouldn't believe, WD helps to loosen them up quite a bit.
Third, put the entire system in and line it up BEFORE you start tightening things up. Once you clamp it down tight (they take a LOT of force to tighten them... seriously) the bigger end of the two pipes will be compressed, making it more difficult to remove and play around with the fitment to get things right. You will need to adjust it to get the tips where they need to be. and also to make sure you don't have any kind of rattling because you rushed it and left a pipe touching the undercarriage which your girlfriend will call "that bad rattle sound" and ask you "do all mufflers sound like that" and it will piss you off when all you want to do is get back home and enjoy your damn Sesame chicken combo in peace. Is that so much to freakin ask for?
Other than those three things.. don't reuse your stock gasket (duh) because it sucks. Use the copper stuff that Sam mentions in the instructions, instead. Also, don't forget the washers for the flange bolts!
Quality of Part: 10
Product Performance: 10
Would you Recommend to Others: Yes. I have the Doctor Speed Cold Air Box and the Vector tune already. When I installed this system, I noticed a performance improvement right away.
Any Other Comments: To be honest I could go on for an hour about this. I was very impressed when I took this out of the box. I've seen custom systems before and I've seen my share of professionally made, machine welded systems.
The GT-R system is so well-crafted that you would think you just opened a box with Borla on the front of it. I've rarely seen welds as clean as Sam's, his experience really shows itself in this area. Every single part fit right into the hangers. His hangers are noticeably more forgiving than stock, so you can adjust things exactly how you want them.
The sound is exactly like the sound clips on here. Joey (disposablehero) posted them a loooooong time ago in video form. I believe those are the closest representation of the sound. Just a heads up, it will sound a bit.. I dunno.. funny at first start-up. It smooths out dramatically over the course of a week and it is much more mellow and deep.
Price: $549 + shipping for forum members
Purchased From: http://www.Classic4Performance.com
Installation: Very easy to install. Getting the stock piece of junk off is another story but the new stuff fits into place very nicely.
Installation Time: About 2 hours, but give yourself 3.
Any Installation Tips You Have: Three major things..
First off, make sure you have a friend helping you. You will spend 8 hours doing this yourself or just 2 if you have an extra pair of hands.
Second, WD40 all the stock hangers about 10 minutes before you dig into the system. The dry hangers will hold onto the stock system like you wouldn't believe, WD helps to loosen them up quite a bit.
Third, put the entire system in and line it up BEFORE you start tightening things up. Once you clamp it down tight (they take a LOT of force to tighten them... seriously) the bigger end of the two pipes will be compressed, making it more difficult to remove and play around with the fitment to get things right. You will need to adjust it to get the tips where they need to be. and also to make sure you don't have any kind of rattling because you rushed it and left a pipe touching the undercarriage which your girlfriend will call "that bad rattle sound" and ask you "do all mufflers sound like that" and it will piss you off when all you want to do is get back home and enjoy your damn Sesame chicken combo in peace. Is that so much to freakin ask for?
Other than those three things.. don't reuse your stock gasket (duh) because it sucks. Use the copper stuff that Sam mentions in the instructions, instead. Also, don't forget the washers for the flange bolts!
Quality of Part: 10
Product Performance: 10
Would you Recommend to Others: Yes. I have the Doctor Speed Cold Air Box and the Vector tune already. When I installed this system, I noticed a performance improvement right away.
Any Other Comments: To be honest I could go on for an hour about this. I was very impressed when I took this out of the box. I've seen custom systems before and I've seen my share of professionally made, machine welded systems.
The GT-R system is so well-crafted that you would think you just opened a box with Borla on the front of it. I've rarely seen welds as clean as Sam's, his experience really shows itself in this area. Every single part fit right into the hangers. His hangers are noticeably more forgiving than stock, so you can adjust things exactly how you want them.
The sound is exactly like the sound clips on here. Joey (disposablehero) posted them a loooooong time ago in video form. I believe those are the closest representation of the sound. Just a heads up, it will sound a bit.. I dunno.. funny at first start-up. It smooths out dramatically over the course of a week and it is much more mellow and deep.
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