My PPE header install
03-23-13, 04:25 PM
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Well it was very bittersweet. Install was much easier than anticipated and took 5 hours not including alignment. I know it sounds pretty wicked in that video, but it just wasn't livable. WAAAYYY too loud! I had to put my stock axle back section in to get some mufflers back on the car. It now sounds basically stock. : (. Gonna have to find an exhaust solution.
03-23-13, 06:36 PM
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Well it was very bittersweet. Install was much easier than anticipated and took 5 hours not including alignment. I know it sounds pretty wicked in that video, but it just wasn't livable. WAAAYYY too loud! I had to put my stock axle back section in to get some mufflers back on the car. It now sounds basically stock. : (. Gonna have to find an exhaust solution.
03-23-13, 07:13 PM
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Sounds really nice! People who have headers and exhaust say it's too loud, but people using the Borla as an exhaust instead of other aftermarket exhausts seem to be happy and livable while driving. 
03-23-13, 07:32 PM
#24
Sounds like Borla is the happy medium of exhausts. Stock is just really depressing after having deleted cats and mufflers. Although, in my opinion, while deleted cats and mufflers sounds amazing, it was on the edge of annoying with the drone BUT it was livable. I'm really stuck between Joe Z and Borla. I think power is the same, Joe Z is louder and better quality and cost quite a bit more. I'm scared Borla won't have enough sound and Joe Z will be over the top.
Back to the headers though...it was hard to gage a difference today as it was low 40's and rainy. Won't be able to really open it up for a few days. I think the hardest part of the install was getting a nut on a bolt on the headers. Very tight spaces and you have to keep moving the engine ever so slightly to make room. But, like I said this job was much easier than my mechanic and I thought. $400 too!
Back to the headers though...it was hard to gage a difference today as it was low 40's and rainy. Won't be able to really open it up for a few days. I think the hardest part of the install was getting a nut on a bolt on the headers. Very tight spaces and you have to keep moving the engine ever so slightly to make room. But, like I said this job was much easier than my mechanic and I thought. $400 too!
03-23-13, 07:37 PM
#25
Well it was very bittersweet. Install was much easier than anticipated and took 5 hours not including alignment. I know it sounds pretty wicked in that video, but it just wasn't livable. WAAAYYY too loud! I had to put my stock axle back section in to get some mufflers back on the car. It now sounds basically stock. : (. Gonna have to find an exhaust solution.
Lou
03-23-13, 07:40 PM
#26
Borla, to my 39 year old ears, is still pretty loud. If it were any louder, I might have actually gone back to stock mufflers with Borla exhaust. There are some good clips around - but the best thing is find somebody in your area that has it. Borla with headers and without headers isn't too much different actually.
03-23-13, 08:04 PM
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What I found is that the car is much louder when it was first started up and the first two or three drive cycles. It was way to loud at first. I have PPE and JOE z and you could not maintain a conversation while the car was idling at first. You should have driven around for a day or two to see if it got better.
03-23-13, 09:30 PM
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Sounds like Borla is the happy medium of exhausts. Stock is just really depressing after having deleted cats and mufflers. Although, in my opinion, while deleted cats and mufflers sounds amazing, it was on the edge of annoying with the drone BUT it was livable. I'm really stuck between Joe Z and Borla. I think power is the same, Joe Z is louder and better quality and cost quite a bit more. I'm scared Borla won't have enough sound and Joe Z will be over the top.
Back to the headers though...it was hard to gage a difference today as it was low 40's and rainy. Won't be able to really open it up for a few days. I think the hardest part of the install was getting a nut on a bolt on the headers. Very tight spaces and you have to keep moving the engine ever so slightly to make room. But, like I said this job was much easier than my mechanic and I thought. $400 too!
Back to the headers though...it was hard to gage a difference today as it was low 40's and rainy. Won't be able to really open it up for a few days. I think the hardest part of the install was getting a nut on a bolt on the headers. Very tight spaces and you have to keep moving the engine ever so slightly to make room. But, like I said this job was much easier than my mechanic and I thought. $400 too!