Member Profile - cowma (Not happy)

[DownUnder]

Where'd you get billies in that great condition. They look new. If they are where'd you find them that doesn't cost an arm and a leg...

[cowma]

Where'd you get billies in that great condition. They look new. If they are where'd you find them that doesn't cost an arm and a leg...

Got them from eBay. Pretty sure they were a set of the Wheelpower ones but hadn't been installed by the previous owner.

[jax0n]

Your set-up is pretty much exactly what I wanna do, minus the Coilovers. Nice work dude, and kudos for doing it all yourself!
Did you get the muffler alignment sorted out?

[cowma]

Your set-up is pretty much exactly what I wanna do, minus the Coilovers. Nice work dude, and kudos for doing it all yourself!
Did you get the muffler alignment sorted out?

I wasn't going to do coilovers originally but ended up spending close to as much as what they cost anyway. Was a good learning experience I guess.
There are good walkthroughs for the things I have done so far which makes life easy for people like me with pretty much no mechanical knowledge. I am leaving the bushes to a shop though

Still waiting for the centre and y pipe to arrive so some zip ties are holding it in place for now

[cowma]

Got the Xforce centre and Y pipe a while ago now. After laying it out under the car I found that it was about 20cm too long to match up with the front cat flange.

I was advised it would be an easy fix, just get an exhaust shop to cut to length and reweld. Today I took it to my local exhaust shop and got him to do the work however apparently the centre pipe was never going to match up with the y pipe, was going to point down, the flanges weren't going to line up correctly etc.

Ended up with the Xforce Y pipe and he made up a custom centre for me and he sorted out the left hand muffler alignment for me too. Bit annoyed that a "bolt on" part can be so wrong but I am not the first to have fitment issues with the N/A Xforce exhausts but happy it's sorted. I will have too try and get a sound clip of my "bitsa" exhaust. Stock headers to front cat, custom centre and front muffler, Xforce Y pipe and TCP Auto quads

[cowma]

Went for a drive and took a video of the exhaust sound

[cowma]

Got home after work yesterday to discover this. Happened sometime between Wednesday am and Saturday pm either while it was at the airport or in the carpark at work. Runs from almost level with the rear view mirrors to about 20cm past the rear door

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Scratch Rear.JPG (76.96 KiB) Viewed 2967 times

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[Boostaddict]

Bastards....!! Absolute scum bags!!!

[cowma]

Bastards....!! Absolute scum bags!!!

Not wrong, will take a bit more than Scratch-X to get rid of I think