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Old 05-23-14, 06:27 PM
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Very nice Kyle. My fabricator friend is looking to get some free time off his race cars to fab up equal length long tube headers for me soon. He actually said that Novel's quality looks ****ty!! This is what he typically does
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Old 05-23-14, 09:30 PM
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When I was at Novel and seeing his exhaust in person and looking it over...the quality is top notch
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Sounds fantastic man. Get that thing on a dyno, and let us know how it goes.
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Old 05-24-14, 09:25 AM
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Congrats, your car sounds awesome, Mk4Sup's fab is just a hater and loves to cut pie pieces up and waste time welding instead of using mandrel bent pipes.
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Congrats on the new setup. Sounds awesome! Would love to see pics or hear details of your custom mid-pipe.
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Originally Posted by RCB
Amazing how much it changes the car vs. the U.S. header options. Sounds like a different engine all together.
Love it!
Agreed sounds exotic to me.
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Originally Posted by RCB
Amazing how much it changes the car vs. the U.S. header options. Sounds like a different engine all together.
Love it!
I agree. Sounds awesome. It would be fun to play with different catbacks to see how things change.
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Originally Posted by mk4umha
Congrats, your car sounds awesome, Mk4Sup's fab is just a hater and loves to cut pie pieces up and waste time welding instead of using mandrel bent pipes.
LOL, and I was thinking that was the worlds nicest drier duct.
That is some pretty sweet fab work though. He must be Japanese, those JDM guys love pie cuts.
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OP set up sounds sick, also that matte wrap, awesome.
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Originally Posted by mk4umha
Congrats, your car sounds awesome, Mk4Sup's fab is just a hater and loves to cut pie pieces up and waste time welding instead of using mandrel bent pipes.
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LOL, and I was thinking that was the worlds nicest drier duct.
That is some pretty sweet fab work though. He must be Japanese, those JDM guys love pie cuts.
Sadly it's stone age tech. Digital printing will kill the demand for skilled welders in this arena, and it will make mandrel bending a thing of the past for low volume production.
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I didn't know digital printers for pipe and tubing where something that where available or becoming available. That should open up the doors for major advancement in the design possibilities for headers, exhaust, intake, I/C piping, and wow...anything really.

I'm trying to understand how this would work for differant grades of steel and aluminium or would those no longer be the preferred materials as well?
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Originally Posted by jdm_altzza
Damn that sounds sick... might jump the bullet myself for these...
Definitely worth it if you can swing it. The smooth power delivery is extremely noticeable

Originally Posted by scamsel
dang, these vids such a tease!! need some higher quality audio por favor,

ps. that satin black looks ****ing amazing to me.
Will do, I'll try and snag my friends GoPro and get some video on that too.

Originally Posted by RCB
Amazing how much it changes the car vs. the U.S. header options. Sounds like a different engine all together.
Love it!
I agree, it completely changed the car. And sounds exotic especially in the 2-4k RPM range.

Originally Posted by melbitoast
Sounds fantastic man. Get that thing on a dyno, and let us know how it goes.
Will do, as soon as I can.

Originally Posted by Cronic
I agree. Sounds awesome. It would be fun to play with different catbacks to see how things change.
I agree, would be interesting to see the differences, I know my HKS setup was pretty raspy even before the Novel headers. Anyone in California want to swap catbacks and record the differences lol.
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Originally Posted by LOLM3
Definitely worth it if you can swing it. The smooth power delivery is extremely noticeable



Will do, I'll try and snag my friends GoPro and get some video on that too.



I agree, it completely changed the car. And sounds exotic especially in the 2-4k RPM range.



Will do, as soon as I can.



I agree, would be interesting to see the differences, I know my HKS setup was pretty raspy even before the Novel headers. Anyone in California want to swap catbacks and record the differences lol.
Lol I'm interested in testing it on my full Meisterschaft
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