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Old Sep 19, 2013 | 01:42 PM
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Took a few pictures, my car is incredibly dirty so I do apologize lol.

ALSO if anyone is interested I am going to have Sikky headers for sale next week once my PPEs come in.







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Old Sep 19, 2013 | 03:05 PM
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^ Hot Damn your ride is sexy! I need to get me a Tom's kit! Yours and Blitz are my two MM idols LOL!
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Old Sep 19, 2013 | 05:18 PM
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car looks great! question for ya, did you drill holes in your spoiler for the lexus emblem or did you clip the tabs off?
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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by 1SexyLexus
^ Hot Damn your ride is sexy! I need to get me a Tom's kit! Yours and Blitz are my two MM idols LOL!
Tom's is the way to go imo. Thanks haha

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car looks great! question for ya, did you drill holes in your spoiler for the lexus emblem or did you clip the tabs off?
Thanks, I just cut the tabs off. In December I am going to get the wald lip molded, shaved and have the badge holder filled in flush. Much like Devin and Cary's ISF

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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 08:02 AM
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Looks good
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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 01:10 PM
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[QUOTE=LOLM3;8148332]Took a few pictures, my car is incredibly dirty so I do apologize lol.

ALSO if anyone is interested I am going to have Sikky headers for sale next week once my PPEs come in.

...LOLM3, silly question there may be something im missing, but isnt the power gained between sikky and ppe similar? Why the switch?..I currently have sikky and was under the impression they were quite comperable.
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Old Sep 20, 2013 | 02:54 PM
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Looks good
Thanks!

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LOLM3, silly question there may be something im missing, but isnt the power gained between sikky and ppe similar? Why the switch?..I currently have sikky and was under the impression they were quite comperable.
Yeah, but I always wanted PPEs from the get go, the welds, quality, and fitment are much better. Also PPE is located in AZ which is where I currently am for the next month. I will be doing dyno runs at vivid racing of the Sikky headers vs. the PPEs to find out definitively the power differences
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Old Oct 16, 2013 | 07:02 PM
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This isn't your typical Sikky vs. PPE header thread. I switched from Sikky headers to PPE headers and all I can say is I feel more response/power with the PPE headers and they looked A LOT better.
We did have an issue with the CEL P0607 and P0138 kept popping up we were puzzled. The next day after 6 hours of double checking the module and the connections Ryan found out that two of the pins in the o2 harness extension were reversed. After we flipped them I still had a few CELs pop up but then they all went away on my drive around the block. So if you run into this issue make sure the o2 harness extension is wired correctly!
Modifications were the same before and after the install except for the headers. Only notable power modifications are Sikky/PPE headers and a Borla Exhaust with the cats and resonator removed. All runs were done in with sport mode and in 6th . The Mustang dyno was clearly having some issues when we ran the post install setup with PPEs as we saw gains of up to ~170whp. Rob (owner of Vivid Racing) was surprised with even the output on Sikky headers as it performed better than his C63 . They re-calibrated the dyno and it still consistently ran ~500whp. I am going back again once they have someone take a look at the dyno. So stay tuned for more accurate results!
UPDATE: Results have been posted and are accurate. Now you can see the power and quality difference when tested on the same car, conditions, mods and etc.


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Elevation 1237ft

Sikky
Temp: 87
381whp/352wtq

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Temp: 84
397whp/365wtq


PPEs have a gain of 16whp/13wtq







My ISF had some good company



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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 09:40 PM
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So I decided to steal CalitriSC's wheels lol and put them onto my car just to see what it would look like. I am very tempted now...



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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 09:43 PM
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lol looks like you stole his calipers too!
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Old Oct 28, 2013 | 12:31 AM
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nice move, and congrats on the PPE

I had my PPE Headers installed last thursday, funny thing is the installer didn't even use the wires that came with the headers, he told me the last time he used them on an ISF he kept getting a CEL, so he wired it into the existing oem wires (somehow) and until today have not had any CELs.

I'm wondering what my installer did to not use the wires that came with the headers.

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Old Oct 31, 2013 | 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by MK4Sup_isF
lol looks like you stole his calipers too!
Haha yeah I stole those too!

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nice move, and congrats on the PPE

I had my PPE Headers installed last thursday, funny thing is the installer didn't even use the wires that came with the headers, he told me the last time he used them on an ISF he kept getting a CEL, so he wired it into the existing oem wires (somehow) and until today have not had any CELs.

I'm wondering what my installer did to not use the wires that came with the headers.
Thanks and to you as well! There is a module which I don't think you are talking about. The other set of wires are for the o2 sensors to extend the harness as the collector and the o2 bung sits further down compared to the stock/sikky headers. He probably just extended the connection with his own wiring? What codes are you getting?
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Old Oct 31, 2013 | 03:10 PM
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Just a few shots from the other night



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Old Oct 31, 2013 | 03:15 PM
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Looks amazing!
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Old Nov 1, 2013 | 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by LOLM3
Thanks and to you as well! There is a module which I don't think you are talking about. The other set of wires are for the o2 sensors to extend the harness as the collector and the o2 bung sits further down compared to the stock/sikky headers. He probably just extended the connection with his own wiring? What codes are you getting?
Actually its the Module that they never installed (pic below):



He told me the last ISF that he installed headers on threw a CEL, he had to remove the module and wire it some other way...(i have no idea how he has wired it without using the module, maybe he used the OEM module, if there is even one) he told me the GCC spec ISFs don't need the module.
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