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Had it installed today. First impressions: It's quiet, much quieter than the stock exhaust with a Magnaflow resonator. The drone is gone, which was my #1 complaint with my old setup. I'm hoping that the Borla will loosen up a little after a week or two. It has a deep tone to it, but it's very mild.  I'm still having mixed views on the tips. Sometimes I like them, sometimes I don't.
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It may just have been in my head, but mine seemed to get louder after a while. If you really want a nice sound out of the Borla, go with headers/gutted precats and an off-road y- pipe.
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Originally posted by Jason43:
It may just have been in my head, but mine seemed to get louder after a while. If you really want a nice sound out of the Borla, go with headers/gutted precats and an off-road y- pipe.
Yeah, I'm going to wait a couple of weeks to see if it gets louder. That is what happened with my Camaro's exhaust.
I gotta say, the car pulls a little harder on the highway, especially if your leaving it in 5th gear.
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Originally posted by TommySVT:
Originally posted by Jason43:
It may just have been in my head, but mine seemed to get louder after a while. If you really want a nice sound out of the Borla, go with headers/gutted precats and an off-road y- pipe.
Yeah, I'm going to wait a couple of weeks to see if it gets louder. That is what happened with my Camaro's exhaust.
I gotta say, the car pulls a little harder on the highway, especially if your leaving it in 5th gear.
Yeah, the Borla is known to give decent low to mid range torque gains.
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I have noticed that the tips are impossible to keep clean. I think its the way they are shaped, the exhaust gas seems to cover the entire tip with a black layer of crud, especially since I removed the cats. I dont mind the look, although I would have prefered a regular angle cut tip.
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it will loosen up alot i promise
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I can floor it and no one ever looks at the car like "oooo that sounded good what was that?"
I don't know how it sounds cause I have not let anyone else drive it.
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mine loosened up after about two months of pretty hard driving and taking all the gears to redline all the time cause thats just how I drive
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Get some metal polish and the tips clean up in two swipes of a cloth. Rub it on and then rub it off with a clean towel. Works great. Mothers and 3M have worked great for me.
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You know, every time the Borla is mentioned, I get misty eyed. I was on line to get one in the group buy and was the third on the wait list. Seems like I was skipped over and was told that Borla is out of stock for now. Hopefully they'll get to me soon.
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