anyone tried ebay exhaust?

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jt15833
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been looking at the ebay exhaust ones around 230-260$, 3" mandrel N1 style. they look good just curious how do these sound on ca's? anyone tried? any other recomendations for cheap 3" mandrel exhausts


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I have one. SSauto. Loud as F*CK, but is very good quality.

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no local exhaust shop that can make one up for you? i got my brm rewelded(basicly i kept the magnaflow muffler and reweled the rest) So i got a 2.5inch with a resonator for 180.

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I have an ssauto one also and it works good but is hella loud

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I also have the ssautochrome. Stock manifold, stock o2 housing, ssauto down pipe - back to muffler. I love the sound. It gets louder if you add An aftermarket manifold and turbo. Only buy from them on ebay. I got my exhaust next day off ebay. I paid full price for the FMIC kit and bought it from them directly, It took 7 days to get. I think they try to protect their feedback so the ship fast from ebay and slow from direct orders it seems. Anyway I would recomend it. It fits great on my s13 chasis.thats just my .02

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Would anyone have a soundclip this exhaust? is it more of a low tone or high pitch sound? Also tattman77 is right, they are very good when it comes to shipping. I also brought the FMIC kit and the 2 piece downpipe and got them the next day. The new downpipe set also sits directly in the stock DP location, so no clearance issues where you need to cut and reweld.

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I have the SSAC dual N1's or knockoffs. It is a good exhaust but it hangs low. I wish I could find a way to raise it up, I always scratch errrr....its not bad cause I have a high flow cat on there too.

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From what Greg has said before, those exhausts do not have the quality of some other exhausts out there. Apparently, in BRMs research, they found the packing in SSAC muffers to be sub-par and to degrade more quickly than other brands. I have heard of folks having rust issues as well. But at 1/3 the cost of HKS or Apex (my HiPower was damn near $700 shipped ) it is worth a try. A lot of folks run them and seem to be pleased.

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I got the HKS hi power catback one mine. I love it. Its a little loud but it sounds good. Not like to cheap one that sounds like your killing your car. I got lucky because some guy sold it to me brand new for $325.

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yeah but mr greg's exhaust seem to fit worst than my friend's ssac dual n1 replicas. what kind of exhaust were you looking for anyways? quiet? loud? Give me a citation?

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I had one on my car, n1 dual tipped, hit everywhere the way it came...but I never thought of it as loud, until I made so it wouldn't hit (straight 3" to the mufflers) then I got a f-bombing ticket from some butt ugly cop. You see, in VA there's two places, Christiansburg and everywhere else. I strongly suggest you avoid Christiansburg if you have a somewhat modified car. Now that exhaust is for sale, much cheaper than ssautochrome gose for.

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I hate you 1via. I bought mine off a eBay seller (for $660 buy it now), then I later saw that HKS delars can get them even cheaper. Sigh.

Its sad when I have a $1000 exhaust and $1000 cooling systems (oil and water combined) on a $1000 motor in a $2000 car.

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hahahah. Yup I got super lucky.
Modified by 1via at 11:50 AM 4/6/2006

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anumeric wrote:Would anyone have a soundclip this exhaust?
This is a video of my friend donny getting his AEM tunned. He has ssautochrome from head to muffler (not including turbo). no cat. He has been running this for over a year now with no cracks appearing.

http://media.putfile.com/dyno-50

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dvd wrote:yeah but mr greg's exhaust seem to fit worst than my friend's ssac dual n1 replicas.
i didn't have any issues w/ my brm aside from a hanger being welded on the wrong side of the resonator and the fact that it hangs so low to the ground


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