Bye Bye Stock Exhaust

Old 09-29-2009, 03:35 AM
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Talking Bye Bye Stock Exhaust

Recently got the Tanabe Exhaust for my car and I love it!!!

Here's some pictures. ENJOY

Box


Opened box


Tip shot




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Tanabe vs Stock


Tanabe Installed!














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Old 09-29-2009, 04:06 AM
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Looks nice! I like it

What made you pick this one over the others?
Old 09-29-2009, 07:07 AM
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Looks HOT! Very classy.

Good job on the pics. Thank you for taking the time to take the pics and get them post. I know when installing a new toy, it's hard to stop long enough to snap any pics.
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Looks very sexy!! Awesome choice, now for some videos
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Originally Posted by JoeTL'81
Looks nice! I like it

What made you pick this one over the others?
I didn't want anything loud, so I had two choices - comptech or tanabe. I decided to go with tanabe cause of the tip design

Originally Posted by alexSU
Looks very sexy!! Awesome choice, now for some videos
I will try to get some videos made this week. haha

Thanks for the comments.
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Very nice! Can't wait for video on this.
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whoa...i was a little throw-a-back! I don't remember the tans being so goooood looking! really, really looks good!
Old 09-29-2009, 03:33 PM
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Wow very nice and clean looking, very nice work. I too am up in the air with what exhaust to go with, Comptech or Tanabe. Those pix may have just made up my mind lol.
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good work!
waiting for videos.. I want to hear your sound =) think its must be great
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Looks super sexy!!!
Old 09-29-2009, 08:07 PM
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very nice .... i had the Tanabe racing medalion on both my integra's and loved the sound... can't wait to hear a video clip
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bad assssss....
how much and from where?
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Looks great!! How was the installation process? Did you did it all by yourself?
Old 09-29-2009, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by vinceeyy
bad assssss....
how much and from where?
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Good question, I am also highly interested!
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Originally Posted by chapu08
Looks great!! How was the installation process? Did you did it all by yourself?
The install was pretty simple. Just need the right sockets and some WD-40. My little brother and I did it with no experience installing an exhaust.

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bad assssss....
how much and from where?
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I got it through a friend. But Heel Toe sells it for a very good price with the 5% discount code acurazinerocks.
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that does look good and also waiting on vid clips!
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That's a good looking exhaust. Get some video clips so we can hear that bad boy
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Video!

Here's the video. I'll try to do some drive-by's and in-car clips tomorrow after school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCFFGKIH4s

Enjoy!!!
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love tanabe's medallion touring series

when you make in-car video, can you drive smoothly upto 3000rpm? tl drones the most between 2000~3000rpm so like to hear how much it dornes or not
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Dam I didnt know the Tanabe was that nice! Whats the piping diameter?
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hell yea my friend has tans on his lexus they are the one that has the bluish flamed lookin tip ever since i heard his i wanted on and then i found out they made them for our car even better nice setup tho nice little purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and not a fart can
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Restrictive

That looks good.

My only concern would be the innards on the pipe where it breaks in two. I wonder how well they did the welds and if there are a lot of eddy currents.
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Those exhaust are great good sounds and nice design i ike the way they look in your TL really nice...
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Damn looks VERY good and sounds GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to get mine ASAP!
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Ya, when I get like 2 more grand, I am getting an atlp race pipe, atlp j-pipe, and this exact exhaust. The video and pictures is making me more excited!!!
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Here's a little video I made today. It's not the greatest, but it's better then nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGqlyfFrOFM
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Thanks for the vids! Looks and sounds great!

The sound seems just about right! Tanabe has jumped in the rankings for which exhaust I want to install!

Was it really a DIY with no exhaust installing experience? How long did it take?
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Just a heads up, we have one of these exhausts in stock. We can do $1050 shipped to the cont US. PM me to purchase.
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it's nice but a lil tooo quiet for my liking a CAI sound similiar
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Just a heads up, we have one of these exhausts in stock. We can do $1050 shipped to the cont US. PM me to purchase.
wow thats good if i had the $ i would have jumped on this asap........to bad
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Originally Posted by JMooSeR
Thanks for the vids! Looks and sounds great!

The sound seems just about right! Tanabe has jumped in the rankings for which exhaust I want to install!

Was it really a DIY with no exhaust installing experience? How long did it take?
Yes it was. It took about an hour to remove the stock exhaust and install this one with the help of my little brother.

It's actually pretty simple to do. There's basically 3 bolts to remove, and a few hangers to unhook. Make sure you spray WD-40 on the hangers so it slides right out. Without it, it would be impossible.
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thanx for the very nice vid
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Nice, I see you are in SoCal you should come out to a meet sometime so we can all here this in person
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Nice!! I may want to do this exhaust later.. the greddy is TOO LOUD!! lol
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After reading some threads recently about drone with aftermarket exhausts, I had sworn off getting a system but this has changed my mind...again....very nice.

Any drone at all?

I wonder if they make a quad-tip TL-S type kit.
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That's pretty hot. Sounds perfect too...not too loud but enough to tell it's not stock. Any drone? I have the Greddy but needed to put on the stock resonator. J pipe helped out a little too.
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Nice exhaust system. The videos helped me make up my mind that this will be the system I put on my car after I save up for it. Thats the exact sound I was looking for. Now we need dyno numbers.
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pure SEX!!

looks siik bro... bet that the feelin of openin that box was like a lil kid when seein candy
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what size are the tips on that setup

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