scrmngt

Boomtubes came today...yea!

Started with the install on the drivers side...the pipe is touching the exhaust cut out!

The went to the passenger side...the inner bracket is close, but the outer bracket ain't even close! It's just about touching the underside of the trunk pan!

I did some searches and saw that others have had some problems...and some not. But I gotta say...this is ridiculous...a blind man could have gotten these closer! There is no amount of bending and tweeking of the rods or h pipe clamps that could get these even close. Did I get the wrong ones? Are there different ones for different years?

I'm either at the point where I'm going to send them back, or bring the welder home from work and start from scratch with new hangars...but it frosts my a$$ that I would have to do this and waste my time on something that should have been right in the first place. I do prototype metal fabrication for a living and having exhaust brackets either welded or bent up correctly is NOT rocket science.

Anyone have this bad of an experience? Any advice? Is it worth trying to send these back and get another pair? Thanks in advance.

onederful100

mine did not line up perfect either, but not as bad as yours. mine lined up w/ tweaking the x pipe and having a friend hold things in place and using jackstands to rest the boomtubes on when tightening up, but yours sounds worse. i would say you gotta bend the hangers to get them on good.

baddger

Did you buy them brand new from Ninosports? Mine came in and fit without any hanger bending needed nor scuffed tips
I would send them back for sure but dont give up sound is too damn good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dekgIWK8_FY

Nuke

It's a matter of loosening both the midpipe and axleback clamps and doing some fine tuning of these joints to get them to line up. There's a write-up in TacoBill's sticky for installing the FRPP/Borla Stingers that applies to most any system.

SirKnightTG

I guess I got lucky. My booms lined up just fine with no tweaking at all.

Damn I love the boomtubes. Just thinking about them makes me want to go out and start the car.

stealth_GT

The 07+ has different exhaust hangers... these 'should' fix that problem up...

http://www.ninosport.com/Pypes-Exhau...g-V8-V6-HFM60K

BRENSPEED

Did you try adjusting the over axel tubes to compensate for the horible alignment. But you may have just gotten a bad set from mac. I would defently call whoever you bought them from and see if they have any suggestions. I would not cut/modify them before you know if you can return them. That sucks I have installed tons of boom tubes and never had a alignment problem.

Hicompression

My Boomtubes had a horrible fit also. I put my Boomtubes on and adjusted at the midpipe. The midpipe adjustment allowed me to get the length of the tips sticking out from the cut-outs even. But no amount of midpipe or over-axle adjusment was going to get the tips centered in the cut-outs.

So....I had to bend the sh*t out of the hangers. It looks perfect now but required multiple installations and removals to get them bent just right.

Dealing with the poor fitment was worth it once I got the hangers bent right. The exhaust note is the best out of all the systems I have tried (5 to date)!

Riptide

My passenger side stuck out about 1/4" further than the driver's side and hung about the same amount lower. I didn't have any jacks or jackstands at the time so I just took it to the muffler shop. $30 later it was all fixed up and perfect.

Nuke

I had one side that stuck out about 1/4" - 1/2" farther than the other which itself was lower. I was able to raise and extend the latter by adjusting both the axleback-to-midpipe and midpipe-to-H pipe joints. Now they're dead-on.