I take monetary donations........someone else said I tune for beer

while I like beer it makes you fat and you cant pay the bills with it

garcia pm me your email...

 

anyone on here know anyhting about the ams exhausts? seems like no one rocks those around this area?

 

They are nice......AMS or Buschur parts - you cant go wrong with either. I sent you a pm back

 

so that's what i have been doing wrong!

 

.... you and me both! I will be glad when the holidays are over, the good food doesn't help either!

 

Unfortunately there's only one guy I trust with my car.

I'll give you a hint...

It's not the deuche bag at NTB that ruined my rims... It's not the *** at Biondi that didn't know how to bleed my brakes and sent me on my way with a pedal that hit the floor... And It wasn't the guy who took 4 hours to change my oil and got mad at me for trashing him on the JD Powers survey. (Got my oil changed at 1,000 miles. First time and last time the dealer does any maintenance)...

Ask Emily, she'll tell you. I have to take a bottle of Xanax and Klonopin with me every time I have to get my car worked on.

The person I speak of is myself. I don't care how good of a relationship you have with someone, NOBODY cares for your car like you do. But... unfortunately we all cannot do everything ourselves. Luckily we have guys with great reputations like Mike from Baierl.

 

Amen.....I was having a conniption at Firestone when the put on my new tires and wheels, I wanted to stand over them and make sure they did it to my liking but they wouldn't let me in the garage


I only trust myself and my friend danl, I would be hard pressed to even go to Baierl but its good someone out there has a good rep. in case of a last resort

 

I've heard good things about them as well. I personally just like the fact that AMS exhausts use a three bolt flange rather than the buschur slip-fit design. I really don't care for slip-fit. Buschur does have the luxury of offering two different mufflers though. I'd definately go for the Magnaflow muffler.

If you're considering a whole turboback, consider your options for an O2 housing as well. Certain downpipes have issues with certain O2 housing I think.

The best modding advice I can offer is, "Always plan ahead. What you feel is good enough today will not be enough tomorrow." Don't ever build yourself into a corner. In other words, try to avoid at all costs, buying the same part twice.

 

for those of you that have replaced your o2 housings with 3" ones, what did you use for the donut gasket that fits in between the outlet, and the downpipe?

 

I bought a new stock donut gasket. It still fits on the O2 housing. Trust me, it was driving me crazy trying to figure it out. The easiest way to describe what you're questioning is... The OD of the O2 housing doesn't change from stock to aftermarket. The ID changes. Get it??? Certain downpipes will not accomidate the stock donut gasket and you must use a regular gasket. Don't ask me how that works.

 

I too bought a new oem gasket....if your dp worked with it now then your good to go after the new O2.

Installing my parts tomorrow......will post up if it makes a difference

 

Good luck on a not-so-fun job. I noticed a big difference, but I did a ported manifold, went from a 9.8 to a 10.5 hotside, and O2 housing all at once. You should still see some improvements. Don't forget to spray everything tonight!

 

ah ok, i had just assumed that the outer diameter changed as well.

well that makes it easy, my downpipe does fit the stock donut gasket, so i can just re use that again and be all good.

thanks guys.

 

Check with DennyT4 on this too. If I remember he had a heck of a time with it.

 

They're kind of tough to get off. You may ruin it in the process. I still have my original if you need it though.