My Mamba will be happy now that my Corsa came in today! Mopac has a good relationship with the folks at Corsa and there were kind enough to sneak me into their backorder production run on April 11th and 10 days later I now have it in my hot little hands. I'm pumped to toss it on the car, but we just had 5 shitty, windy days of snowfall here in Calgary and I'm gonna have to wait to dig it out and take get it over to my buddies lift for the install. So for now I'll have to wait and look at it, sitting in the garage all lonesome and functionless!
Here are a couple pics.....
Packed Well
First Peek
Nice Tips
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Thats a good question I'm not sure... I opted for the cat back as I didn't have the coinage for headers, high flow cats and the rest. They said that its supposed to be a nice system and I look forward to hearing what she sounds like.
XJR- did you cut off the x-over and run straight thru pipes to the exhaust?
I unbolted the stock mufflers from the cats at the clamps.
I unclamped the crossover at the four clamps per Corsa's included instructions.
Then, removed the cross over, and installed the Corsa Track kit by directly connecting them to the front cats and pipes, using the included "Torca" clamps.
That was it.
Crossover came out as part of the install.
Now, there was a PREVIOUS exhaust system Corsa sold that continued to use the crossover crap, but they don't sell that anymore.
All the corsa systems designated track delete the crossover.
I actually had to SAWZALL mine out of the car it was such a tight fit.
No fitment issues with the two pipes at all. They just bolt/clamp on where the stock pipes used to reside.
The crossover pipes when unclamped from the stock exhaust is "supposed" to just fall right out the back end of the car near the diff.
That was NOT the case with my install. I had to sawzall the crossover in half and then it easily fell out.
If you need help let me know.
Believe it or not, I did this all in my garage, without a lift, without ramps and without any of the four tires leaving the ground. YES, I did it with the Viper completely on the ground. LOL.
If you can picture the stock setup then its a breeze to install.
The stock exhaust pipes leave the motor and run along the side of the car. They pass the exhaust tip and continue toward the rear of the car. Just behind your seats they cross over - connecting high in the middle probably just behind your sub woofer. The pipe continues to the opposite side of the car exiting out the other exhaust tip.
That's why the new exhausts alleviate some of the interior heat as the pipes don't surround you anymore.
I am not happy with the sound of the Corsa at idle. I'm curious what you think. It sounds at idle like I poked some holes in the stock system. It does sound much better at part and wide open throttle.
Goods luck with the install.
Dam Sharks... looks like we're on the golf course now (if we can get rid of the f'n snow)... But thanks for dredging up bad memories from last night ledfoot.
I'm eagerly looking forward to hearing what they sound like Jim. I did ALOT of reasearch into other systems and the Corsa easily won with what I'm looking for. I was contemplating Borla but I heard bad things about the really loud sound that it produces and that it amplified the drone that instead of eliminating it. I just want something that sounds as good as the car looks, and when people ask you to fire it up to hear it with the stock system, there is always a constant let down when it fires up for a couple revs. I hope that I enjoy it, if not there will be a system up for sale shortly....Hehehe!
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