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This system is all stainless steel, including the mounting hardware. It was built specifically to fit the 2001 – 2003 LS-430 and positions the 3.5” exhaust tips perfectly in the factory cut-outs in the rear valence panel. The mufflers sit where they should, not hanging too low or otherwise out of position or weird-looking, and you can see a bit of the polished stainless mufflers from the rear of the car as visible in the photos. The tips turn down (~35 degrees, I’d estimate) the way the factory rear valence panel is designed for, but you still see inside the 3.5” stainless steel tips. I actually liked the way these tips looked on my ’03 better than the factory ‘04-’06 style tips on my current ’05 LS. I thought it looked muscular and functional, and at the same time somewhat understated, and liked the way the tips are “real” instead of being merely clamped-on covers for the actual muffler outlet (that’s all the ’04-’06 tips really are). Of course exhaust tip preferences are subjective, but this one is built the way it is due to the fact that I didn’t really like the look of straight aftermarket exhaust tips on the ’01-’03 cars because the rear valence panel requires that the mufflers be hanging too low, or the straight tips angle slightly downward, neither of which really looks right to me. But again, just personal preference. Anyway….. this system is built so that you can simply disconnect the factory exhaust at the rear resonators (the bullet-shaped “mufflers” located under the rear floorboard), unbolt the rear muffler hangers, remove the factory resonator-back system, then bolt this system in place using the same factory clamps, hangers, hardware, rubber bungees, and attachment points. You could probably install the system without lifting the rear of the car off the ground, but a floor jack makes it easier and reduces the swap-out job to about 15 minutes once you know what you’re trying to do. It’s probably not more than 45 minutes for the first-time install for most people. Of course the factory exhaust can be swapped back in place of this one just as easily if you want to sell your car later with stock exhaust and keep this one (which is what I did when I sold my ’03 LS).

The tubing is 16 gauge (.065”, which is the standard heavy duty gauge for exhaust systems) 304 stainless, 2.25” diameter. The mufflers are polished stainless steel from Magnaflow, the body of which are 18” long x 9” wide x 4” thick, and the inlet and outlet are 2.5” diameter. The tubing and the exhaust tips are not highly polished, but rather a type of brush finish. The tips could be hand-polished pretty easily if desired, but I prefer the matt finish instead of a high polish. Internally the mufflers use a straight-through perforated stainless tube with packing. The result is a throaty sound that is not overly loud but you can hear it when you get on the throttle a bit. I have a short short video clip of the car at idle, revving, and then driving away. I think the video clip is 19MB, but I should be able to e-mail it if file size isn’t limited on your end.

I want to get $1,050 for the system, which includes standard ground shipment to your door (lower 48 states). The shipping box will probably measure about 64” x 30” x 8”, and weigh ~38 pounds. If someone picks it up here in north Florida or otherwise handles their own shipping, I’ll drop the price by whatever the shipping cost would otherwise be, probably $100 or so.

Questions? PM me or e-mail me at boostjunkie@aol.com

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Price reduced to $900, including shipping. The cost of the all-stainless materials in this system is more than $700, then the labor to cut, fit, and TIG-weld it to perfectly fit the LS would probably be $200-$300. It's a ready-made, easy bolt-on that you can install within an hour or so, and allows you to switch back to 100% stock if you ever want to.

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Adding a couple of photos with different lighting and background. Thanks for looking.

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Video sound clip available via e-mail.

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