I asked if you were based overseas because your location says "depends who is speaking" so I thought that might mean that you were overseas (possibly in the middle east) and that you guys sometimes share an account so the location changes depends on who uses it. Thinking this was the case I thought how great it was that the two of you use the forum to stay in touch but alas I was wrong sorry for the confusion but you both over reacted

 

OK. Let me take a nap and things get all crazy. First off, if you think I'm a bitch then that is certainly your choice. I'm not particularly worried either way - I'm sure lots of people do.

Second, I stated clearly that my statements were somewhat tainted by my mood at the time. However, I would give a slight word of suggestion. Try not to be too short in your questions. It did very much come off like you had some issues there - the questions were "snippy" in the wording. Being in a thread about something completely unrelated it also comes off a little confrontational. If you had put even a sentence or two of your reply to Trey in the first one I would have been able to see what your "voice" was. Normally things like that don't matter but we all don't know each other in most cases and reading things can be very deceiving to the tone intended. I will take your word for it that you were not being nasty and just curious. I'm sorry that I jumped your case about asking.

As for calling in the "big guns" - let me assure you that I had nothing to do with his comments. I had no idea said comments were even made until about 5 minutes ago (roughly 11:40am central). I am well capable of fighting my own battles but we do defend one another when we feel it is warranted. I think the comment he was responding to was warranted of that. Let's just be honest here "I'm not even going to call you a bitch just to show you how wrong you were" is no different than saying it. You'll find I don't care for symantics games and let's just leave it at that. I don't want to continue what you state is not an argument.

Dave, sorry to clutter your thread. I am truely sorry that you had so many problems with your install. At least you will have a good story to tell over beers at BarBQ's.

 

oh please dave doesen't care lol

 

Dude, you crossed the line. You need to step away from the computer and end this now. You were rude and so far uncalled for especially what you said.

 

^^What a waste of a thread now after all that......

DaveB - wow..what an ordeal! Glad to hear it worked out in the end. I too recommend the HKS sport muffler as mentioned above....that'll also solve your looking for nice exhuast tips .

 

I tend to bring out the drama. No worries

 

I agree, PB Blaster is awesome, but sometimes the nuts/bolts are just too far gone. The stuff I used is a high end product from PB. I let them soak for 20 minutes plus I banged the pipes with a rubber mallet to work in the liquid. With 10 or so years of automotive repair experience, I knew the nuts would be a pain and most likely wouldn't budge without a huge fight. It's amazing how much torque it takes to break loose a rusty nut that's only suppose to be torqued with around 30 lb/ft. I was easily putting 120+ ft/lbs to that nut with the 18" breaker bar

 

I guess the moral to the story is, Sometimes you have to use ft/lbs to get things going the way you like. No pun intended.

 

LOL

 

Geeze Dave..good going, usually I start the drama in here. LOL

 

Well, at least you got a little bit of the sound back from the borla...too bad the power isn't there too.

 

Anyone else notice low rpm vibrations caused by the resonance of the coupe midpipe especially at low speeds when the rpms are rolling along at 1500-1700rpms? I'm so use to the car being ultra smooth. Above 2000rpms it's fine, but when rolling along in stop and go traffic (which is often where I live), it can get a bit annoying. I'm debating on whether or no to keep it the pipe on or not.

And yes, there is nothing contacting the midpipe.

 

If you get rid of it, sell it to me Dave. I've also heard of some resonance from the lengthened Z middy also

 

If you install the 2005 sedan mid pipe it will get rid of that vibration (drone) and you will still get most of the power/sound enhancement over stock 2003

 

I'm going to put a band clamp around the rubber hanger on the midpipe. If this doesn't quell the issue, I'll PM you. You're in Seattle right?