Its like christmas in June!!

[cheapazz]

I just got home from work (driving to Vegas and Back) and my spacer AND a KCR true dual cat-back exhaust system were waiting for me!! Mrs. Cheapazz bought the exhaust for me for fathers day. What a wife! I will try to get pics of the installs when I do them tomorrow. Just at first glance the exhaust looks like it is made well, solid thick flanges, good tig welds, etc............will let ya'll know how everything lines up. Till tomorrow.....................

[audtatious]

Sweet

Pix and install writeup is a must, assuming you do your own installation

[Beancooker]

Awesome. Yeah, throw down some pics and a write up or two...

[cheapazz]

Oh yea, will do. I might need a little help with posting the pics but I will document it all. Headin to the garage as we speak.......................

[G_whizz]

Awesome congrats!!

I'm curious to see and hear a vid of your exhaust once it's on too!!



Does Ms. Cheapazz have a sister?

[Sentientbydesign]

Does Ms. Cheapazz have a sister?

Just steal Mrs. Cheapazz and make her Mrs. G_whizz hahaha.

Cheapazz,

Congrats on the mods. Sounds like you and the wifey are in-tune with each other.

[cheapazz]

First things first...............nope, wife is an only child............sucks fer you!! I got the exhaust on......... 40 minutes to remove old exhaust, by hand, no air toolsneed 14mm socket, a small prybar or screwdriver, and channel locks20 minutes of it was removing the muffler....sheesh whatapain!

40 minutes to install new system....need 16mm socket and 16 mm wrench, 14mm socket to tighten original size nuts at catsOn a scale of 1 being easy and 10 hard........for the experienced wrench, about a 2 inexperienced..........about a 4 or 5

Sounds awesome, the closest thing I can think of right now to compare it to is the Subaru WRX with a good deep exhaust tone......put 2 of those next to each other and thats what this system sounds like . At idle, it is barely noticeable and at cruising speed or holding a speed- same thing - tires make more noise than the exhaust.........then you romp it and all hell breaks loose!! Its not raspy just a good clean tone on acc. or decell, no popping or reverb type feedback. I still have the stock cats on too. NO RICE SOUND HERE!! The only downside is that the tips are cheap thin metal rolled steel, will have to invest in some rolled tip ends. Not bad for under $500 including shipping. My wife and I are e-bay sluts !!!!Now just see how it holds up over the long term.

As far as installing the spacer, I might take it back off......it seems to have taken all of the bottom end that I gained from the exhaust away. Although it does make a monster amount of HP in the top end.

Is it better to disconnect the battery after installing a mod or just let everything self adjust with time?

[Sentientbydesign]

Do you have an 5at or 6mt? The spacer on the 6mt is supposedly useless and actually a little negative without the MREV2 lower plenum.

Instead of being lazy and disconnecting the battery, check out the FAQ. There's a link to the ECU reset procedure as well as a few other goodies. Takes about 5 mins if you get it right the first time.

[cheapazz]

I have the 5AT, with the exhaust the auto rev down shift is really noticeable. Thanks for the heads up about the FAQ section, I'll check it out.

[morrison82]

Did you buy your exhaust on ebay? I was looking on there and all i found was the KCR exhaust. Dont know if it is the same or not but it looks bad ***. What is this spacer yall are talking about. Where does it go and what does it do?

[cheapazz]

Yep, It's the e-bay special......KCR. I bought it from carnrace, not the one for 499, the one for 389 plus 80 sumthin for shipping. Its funny cause they are both the same system. The one I got had a couple very small dents on the forward resonators but it won't affect anything. I just put it on this morning and so far so good. I love the sound! The spacer is for the intake plenum, it works on the principle of getting more volume into the engine by increasing the interior space of the plenum. There are give and takes there as well, as with all mods.....some large and some small. I also have the Injen CAI, same as you. We have the same year 5AT cars. Anything I can help you with that I have done I will gladly give you my opinion on. Like the grounding kit from Stillen.....It didn't seem to do a whole lot for me....at least not what I was looking for. I have heard good things about the grounding gear kit but I wasn't able to get in touch with them or patient enough to wait. I also put on some e-bay headers and they are still doing well for me too. Just a pain to install yerself. Hope any of this helped. Feel free to e-mail me with any other questions you may have.

[SVTCOBRA]

Very cool!!!

[cheapazz]

Ok, I'm gonna try to get the pics here.....If I can do that, then I'll try to get some video but I'm pretty sure I'll nedd some help with that. OK...I'm dumb! I can't figure out how to get pics on here. HELP!!! I have Kodak camera and Kodak piture share or sumthin like that.HELP!

[TeflonG35]

You can upload the pics to myspace. And the vids to youtube

[joe603]

To add pics to a post, go here: zer...tures

personally, I use photobucket.com

[Sentientbydesign]

Like the grounding kit from Stillen.....It didn't seem to do a whole lot for me....at least not what I was looking for. I have heard good things about the grounding gear kit but I wasn't able to get in touch with them or patient enough to wait.

Check out my wires thread in the Fab Marketplace. The Stillen kit isn't noticeable because they left out 2 very important ground points. I think they left out 4 important ground points, but 2 make a huge difference in the 5at. I read one of their reps say that they reason they designed the kit as they did was for ease of installation. The 2 pivotal wires are not a 5 minute install...

[cheapazz]

[IMG][/I[IMG][/IMG][I[IMG][/IMG]MG][/IMG]MG] OK See how this works................just a shot of it installed on the car, some random photos of the welds, flanges basically the quality for you to judge.

[CYO44Baseball32]

Nice looks like a knock-off HKS set up

[cheapazz]

I hope this video works, I tried to do more than just rev the motor. I don't know if putting it under a load really changed it or not but I will try to get a "drive by" vid if this works. Click on the pic and it should take you to the video.

[cheapazz]

Nice looks like a knock-off HKS set up

Thats what I've heard, but for 1/3 the price......I'll take 'em!

Hey! Thats why I'm a "CHEAPAZZ"! Right??

Oh yea, there are cheap, CHEAP!!, knock off headers on it too.

HEY JOE, Thanks for the help with the pics and video setup!! works great

[morrison82]

Sounds good for being an ebay special. Looks good too.

[cheapazz]

Yep, I like it. If you just type in G35 exhaust into google, it'll take ya to youtube with a ton of exhaust vids there and they almost all sound the same.

[joe603]

Glad to help! Looks and sounds great!

[Kenrik]

yeah it's like $475 shipped... can't beat it.

This is my next Mod...

[awdjdmtalon]

Cheapazz. Thanks for posting up what it sounds like. I have been eyeing that same exh. Keep us posted as to how the sound changes over the next few weeks as everything in the mufflers wears in.

I have looked at the ones that HKS sells and the one you have. I can't see any differance. I bet they are both made at the same place. Just HKS has their name stamped on it, and the box it is shipped in.

[cheapazz]

I guess this has been an issue on many different website forums. Apparently no one can figure out where this exhaust is made. It was said that it does look like a cheap HKS knock-off but I guess the HKS is made somewhere else in Japan. I looked at many different kinds and the one that came closest was Xo2 exhaust. I think the kit I got was cheaper because of light damage (small dings and dents) but nothing on the mufflers and nothing major to mess up the flow. The whole kit came in one box and only weighs 30 lbs.. Maybe they are just factory rejects that work just fine but won't pass final inspection so they are sold real cheap to us in the U.S.. Sounds good to me, I'm still very happy with the sound and performance gains but my MPG have dropped due to the fact that I always want to hear it. Oh well, win some....lose some.

[BrandAidDesignG35]

sounds crazzy cheapazz... I think it's funny, you call your self cheap azz...

I got all my stuff on ebay also, but I was thinking of calling myself trailerparkG35... lol

The exhaust is so nice, I love the new sound, really deep and aggressive... props!

[gunsaitouge]

oh have a holly jolly christmas....

[USAF_G35_Guy]

Hellz ya dude! Christmas in June Indeed! Does sound pretty good! I've been waiting to do a rear turbo install which would replace my current exhaust, but probably not gonna do that now...so I may be with Kenrik on this one! This may be my next mod! Also....+1 on Ebay whore! LOL Congrats! and good job on figuring out how to post pics and vids on yer first try