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I fitted one to my beast the other week and had my brother help me out, we had no hoist, just car stands and it took around 2 hours to pull off the old system and slap in the new one few beers to kill some time aswell.

Only problem we had was that 1 of the nuts that fit to the turbo cannot be put on due to the size and curve of the pipe bottom nut hits the pipe no chance of it going on, we used all 3 gaskets and did them tight drive it for awhile and retightend them and no leeks yet.

As for the sound it was a big notice from standard did seem loud in the cab but outside it was a reasonable level dosn't seem to be cop bait to me. Performance was huge mid range torque massive now have no traction in first gear and second and is only running on around 5 cylinders as faulty coil packs, so dont notice high boost that much as it farts and pops wont rev. Got my car not long ago from Japan and seems to be stock all bolt-ons are except for my Apexi pod.

I will try to change my phone format as I have a video of the sound on that.

Definately recommend getting one.

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i just installed the front dump and am very happy with it.

not too loud at all, infact much quiter than the old catback system at idle (not at high revs tho)

car runs much harder

you have no traction in 1st and second gears? only due to an exhaust upgrade and only running on 5 cylinders too. . .? i call bullsh.t! :nyaanyaa::domokun:

if ya want akeenan i will take ya for a strap, oohhh by the way it does have an Nismo ECU :blink: , doin some 80 corners the other day at 140 (I know shouldn't) top end of 3rd and started to loose the traction crappy tyres i guess.

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