exhaust & intake
07-18-2011, 11:35 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: NC
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exhaust & intake
i just got my car back from the shop with the full system borla and steeda cai/tune and wow. the performance is a lot more than what i expected. with street tires on a standard woot run i dont gain tracton with the rear until @ 80mph. plus the sound of that borla atak is just brutal. i love every minute of driving. big thumbs up to borla and steeda.
07-18-2011, 11:45 AM
#2
6th Gear Member
You had a shop install a CAI & tune and a bolt-on axleback system? Well, congrats to the added performance and exhaust note but let me know when you need your wiper blades replaced or an oil change or a light bulb replaced. I'll charge you 1/2 as much as the shop. 
07-18-2011, 01:01 PM
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Mish-ogynist
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Helena, MT
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It's LT headers, from what I read about them it worth paying a shop to install the headers, kind of a pita. The CAI on the 2011+ actually takes about 2x as long and isn't as easy as the 05-10, but still isn't hard at all to install , i'd do that myself, i guess if the shop offered to do it for free though i'd let them, save yourself the hour or so of work. i'm curious what your dyno numbers would be. next up, new tires eh? 
actualy, i'd try out the boss intake manifold if I were you, you can get it for $385.
actualy, i'd try out the boss intake manifold if I were you, you can get it for $385.
Last edited by Mishri; 07-18-2011 at 01:04 PM.
07-18-2011, 01:07 PM
#5
I'm glad you said it and not me!! haha
07-19-2011, 08:24 PM
#6
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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i only had the shop install it cause the headers are a pain to tamper with. and since he had to take off my old intake to help get to the headers he put on the steeda free of charge since it was labor he was going to do anyway. the tune i did myself of course.
07-20-2011, 07:16 AM
#8
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Anyway, nice gain. Almost 50rwhp.
07-20-2011, 10:46 AM
#9
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could be a low reading dyno, or your engine isn't fully broken in yet. I forgot what people claimed to get after running the car for 5,000 miles. I think it was like 10-15whp gained w/o modding at all? I'd expect you to be in the 410whp with the auto. Who's tune are you running? I'd try a livernois if I were you, so far auto's running the livernois tune have been faster than any other car. I haven't seen dyno #s yet though. I'm planning on getting a livernois tune after i do the boss intake and o/r X.
07-20-2011, 03:00 PM
#10
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: NC
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im currently running the steeda tune. i wanna try other tunes but every time i try to get one they say i have to buy a tuner and it comes with it. i wanted to try the bama tune. i hear its good clean HP but the reason i went with steeda is i heard its the best one on the auto tranny. i also heard about the engine break in thing as well. ive only got 3.5k on mine. the best thing imo is after these mods im still in the 20s on city mpg lol. after i get the suspension on im prob going to get the boss intake manifold. somewhere in the future i plan on putting on a vortech which would hook right up to it.
