I received my Borlas today. After looking at them, I thought they were the old style. I looked at them again, then thought they were the new style. Then I logged onto Swift Racing to look at the old style, looked at an old thread when I first noticed Borla making a new style. And the exhaust looked like the old style again. It's a lot harder in person to tell whether these suckers are new or old.

So I called Borla to ask them. I spoke with a representative, who spoke with a production manager. My Borlas were manufactured on 6/29, so they are fairly recent. He came back and told me that the production manager wasn't even aware that they had changed the look, but they were in fact using the new template. Our exhausts are hand made and the assembler actually looks up the template, then picks it out to use for building the new tip.

In person, I really don't know. So I guess I'll go by his word and hope these are the right ones. I suppose I really won't be able to tell until they are on the GS. The one thing that made me think they were old is that the out part of the tip is flattened on the top and bottom. Are the new ones like this as well?

To see both the old and new Borlas, take a look at:
https://www.clublexus.com/vb/showthr...threadid=14948

Brian

 

B,

how about posting some pics of your borlas so we can do some commenting of whether it is new/old tips.

william

 

Here is a pic of them from different angles. My digital still cam is missing a cable, so I took these with DV camera:



So, what do you think?

Brian

 

definitely old style - like SRT has picture

they look identical to davegs4's

I was hoping for the new style myself

here's the new

 

perhaps this is a drawback of getting the early shipment since maybe the late shipment will be the other newer style, i dont know.

if in fact theres a difference between the one you got and the latter shipment you might call zack and ask for an exchange. but this will probably set you back another few weeks or so.

 

I got mine Wednesday and they look like the ones you call the old style. The inside measurment of the tips is 3.5" wide by 2.5" high. I like the way they look. They fill up the cutouts in the bumper almost all the way. The new ones look a lot like the stock ones. The part number is 11733.

 

For the record, the ones on Borla's website are nothing like the real SS Borlas for the GS. They simply used a stock SS picture. For the real new ones, check out my thread linked above.

Brian

 

Here's a of mine pasted on SRT's GS. You tell me...

Brian

 

Those are what mine look like and they came yesterday. I like the look better then the new one.

 

This was my exact thought after I posted my first reply, thought some may not consider it a 'drawback'



either way, I'm sure I'll be pleased

 

Brian,

those are the OLD style tips that you received. though from the pics they do not look as square as the ones on SRT. personally, i still like the rounder, newer tip style.

man, why can't borla get the new ones out? june's production output is considered very new to me

william

 

dexter and gs4will,

i remember this topic being discussed a while back and i believe the conclusion was made that the new borlas are oval shaped and the old ones are round like the ones on the website. borla just hasnt updated the site with the new shape. IMO i think the new ovals one look much better. So brian s u did get the new style.

 

FWIW - I think the ones in the pictures posted, even if 'old style' look terrific, and high quality.

 

dasenzation - thanks for confirming, this was exactly what i thought. i remembered the concensus awhile ago agreeing that the new ones were more oval in shape, but i could be wrong, hey even borla doesnt know for sure, right?.

but at this point i'd guess that even the latter shipment is going to be the same as brian s's. guess we'll have to wait and see...

 

Brian,

The exhaust you edited in your post (IMO) still look a lot like mine!

I got my set from Mo over a year ago and have been very happy with them. Although, I'm going to start calling them 'Classic' Borlas instead of 'old' - I'm beginning to get a complex : ).

When you guys DO get them, get some good cleaner and KEEP them clean. It's a lot harder to get them back to shiny after you've let the buildup sit on them a while. Spray mag cleaner for chrome wheels works OK as an interim treatment for me when I don't have time to polish. I'll look around for the brand I ended up with that works well.