well i did exhaust first....just because my CTA intake hadnt come in the mail yet...i ordered some other stuff from chris that was on back order....anyways...you can def feel a little difference on the bottom end....doenst necessarily get you off the line faster....but you dont have to wait for rpms to jump up to 6499 anymore to feel the get-up-and-go.....i mostly noticed sound though....it really completed the overall sound of the car....it takes a little bit of the sound away from the cta and puts it out the back of the car making the exhaust a little louder....plus with 2.25 inch piping...it helped to have more air flowing through for the throaty sound........whew....i am out of breath....

as far as those bolts go? i removed them completely....we are talking about the three randomly placed bolts holding the chamber on top of the TB? correct? yeah they are sitting on my workbench........

-chris-
96 gl: 18" adr reactions, SVT rear bumper & side-skirts, Magnaflow exhaust, CTA Intake, ACCEL coil, 9mm wires, Kenwood, Blaupunkt, Sony Xplod Mobile ES, OBX pedals w/dead pedal, neons, bnmotorsports gauges, autometer monster tach, and ZAINO!