Well I went up to AAM today around 1000. Walked in and was greeted by Clint and my new exhaust Clint gave me a tour of the place, met Mike, and then rolled out to install. Made it to the shop I use at around 1130. Go figure every bay is taken! I finally get a lift at around 1. Took my old Y off, and then started to bolt everything up.

Just to clarify, I checked all the welds, and everything looked awesome.

The Y pipe is nice, the flex's look really solid. They supplied me with 4 gaskets, but they were all 3", so it didn't sit right on the Y and Test pipes. Luckily the TP's are new, so were the gaskets

Install was damn easy. 8 bolts. Everything lined up perfectly. Once installed, I started it up and popped wood. I love the way it sounds, best of all, NO MORE RASP! I took it out for a drive, and noticed instantly a terrible rattle. I also noticed more top end and a little bit of low end torque, that got me happy . Back to the rattle. The pipe that the resonator is on, clears the under brace by just a little. When moving, and even idling, it hits. Which causes a nasty rattle. I plan on fixing this by loosening everything, holding it up with a brace, and tightening each piece down 1 at a time. That should raise it enough to not hit when moving.

Here are some install pics. Also a video, sorry, it get's dark early.







Here is where the rattle is:


The dark video, with ghetto LCD light shining on the tip


Aaaaaand one that I know all you Mid-A people will be able to spot from a mile away




In the end, I'm VERY VERY happy with it. I don't think I will miss my Apexi one bit. Thanks to Altered for hooking me up, Clint was always there when I had questions. I had absolutely no problems with Mike, very helpful and easy to deal with.

No need to bash, this thread is about the exhaust, not the company...

 

Sounds good.

 

SEXY exhaust! Will adding washers to the bolts on the brace solve the issue?

 

hey man no more hardcore rasp like you had on apexi, I am very interested now in getting straight test pipes.

 

The exhaust sounds mean as ever!!! My personal favorite . Sorry to hear about the rattle. I'll make sure its taken care of.

 

Sweet!!

Im gonna eventually get a single exhaust as well, love the look and less raspy... but im going to wait till i get my aps st before i go with the single exhaust.

 

You gotta tuck that bumper flap!!!

 

so is this the normal AAM single exhaust???

 

Titanium

 

Sounds AWESOME... especially for having test pipes.

Now go get some drive-by's down by the golf course (my fave spot).

Tony (recognizes Ft. Belvoir's hobby shop)

 

My AAM Test Pipes rattle like crazy but I am pretty sure thats normal becuase they don't have any hangers on them. Yeah I thought about getting rid of my HKS Ti exhuast for the AAM Dual Ti exhaust

 

What kind of car did you used to have there? Did you have that old red eclipse? License plate said something like RICIN IT??? That car sticks out for some reason haha.

Well I was up there today for about 30 minutes. Props to 4shizzle for giving me the idea to loosen all the holts, raise each component up one at a time with a brace, and then tighten down. NO MORE RATTLE!!!!

Loving the sound. I'll get some drive by's later on today, gotta go find a friend to take the shots. I'm headed outside to try to clean my headlights now

 

HELL no, that Eclipse wasn't mine. That was Sean's wife's Eclipse. I had the red 2G Eclipse that was up there for a while.

 

whats up basinger, i saw you today leaving post the exhaust sounds sweet; im having the same issue with the rattle also but other then that it sounds sweet.

 

The HF Cats have just as much flow IMO...no rasp..

AIC...That exhaust looks identical to mine now, that SINGLE....ohh wait...

I have the same exhaust...FTW!

mine sounds AWESOME too, but mine is much deeper...I guess its the cats and that 8 inch dif from the Z to the G.



Congrats bro!

 

Excellent exhaust!! I would know

Sounds great man, the 3" singles have a pretty clean deep sound even with test pipes (I told ya so). Absolutely screams under WOT cant wiat to hear mine with a procharger LOL

 

lol i would actually like to see a drive by, not bashing but every video you have posted your just reving, get someone to tape you doing a drive by, your then using the whole car not just the engine. i mean my car sounds different when im sitting there reving my engine then it does when i blow by someone at a buck 30 would like to see a drive by video.

 

wow, exhaust sounds really good even with the test pipe!!! Congrats!

 

yeah man congrats. im looking at getting the same setup.

I might get a topspeed for right now, i found one for really cheap.
i cant decide if i should wait and get the AAM or just get the TS for cheaper right now. any suggestions?

 

I see you found your way to the thread.

The Top Speed sounds great, but is VERY loud. The AAM looks MUCH better (IMO) and is higher quality as well. The tone of the AAM is damn near perfect, even with test pipes.