Your unfortunate friend getting screwed by the dealer, does not make it true. He should have threatened with legal action as what the dealer did was illegal.
Indeed he did. It was a hellish experience all the way around. Essentially it came down to the Mazda dealer having no one who understood how to work on a FD. The firtsa install took forever and was done poor enough to lose his engine. And the second one required his car to be brought over an hour away to a dealership that thought they could deal. However, there is the possibility that someone may be convinced of an exhaust beig a mod that could effect the vehichles engine as it does effect back pressure and such.
here's a 96 off cardomain with duals.. flowmaster 1 in 2 out... I like his rims too!
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1995 Pathfinder SE R.I.P.
Most of the trucks above look good, except for the blue PF, the tip on the pass side sticks out a fair bit further than the other and that would drive me nuts!
I like the QX4 job. Although there seems to be alot of pipe bending going on just do get the dual exhaust look. Does that restrict exhaust flow despite the upgraded exhaust system?
I would certainly have it done by a real pro who knows where to put the exhaust hangers. I've seen so many custom dual exhaust jobs where the whole assembly would jiggle at the slightest bump. It looks even worse!
I keep mine stock but used an exhaust tip from a Honda S2000. Did a lot of research and found out that this tip fits the stock pipe perfectly. I had a muffler shop cut about 1.5 inches from the exhaust pipe so that the tip would look flush and not like an afterthought. Been very happy with the result and saved me a lot of $$$ too.
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