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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProKiller" data-source="post: 1051762" data-attributes="member: 8095">the paint now looked great and i again drove it for a while since i blew all my money on the paint job.  the 03 cobra wheels just didn't do it justice anymore and i really wanted to change them out but didn't know for what.  I ended up getting hired over at American Muscle part time so that gave me some extra cash.  Then came the FR500s.  I upgraded from stock 03 cobra 17x9s to 18x9/18x10 hypercoated FR500s.  I put 265/35/18s up front with 305/35/18 mickey thompson ET street raidal IIs in the back.  <img src="http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720083_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720085_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />the size difference was quite impressive<img src="http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720086_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />On the car:<img src="http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720088_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720090_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It was then that i wanted to redo the exhuast.  I kept having issues with the MAC headers leaking becuase they didn't have a solid flange.  I wanted to switch over to long tubes.  I put in some BBK ceramic coated long tubes and a dr. gas o/r x-pipe.  The long tubes were fox ones as i no longer had an EGR anyway and the bellhousing was a fox.  that was quite the chore.  driver's side went in without problem.  The passenger side however took forever.  finally got them in though.  I found a set of roush side skirts on the craigslist for cheap and so the search started for how i wanted to do the side exhaust setup.I decided on dual slant cut intercooled borla tips that i would have cut and turned 90degrees.  The mufflers had to be small and quiet as possible because i didn't want to be obnoxiously loud but yet still being a straight through style.  i didn't want to run the borla side exhuast where the muffler is still in the stock location with same side in/out and then another 90* turn.  just isn't very efficient if the air has to turn around twice.  I took a chance on dynomax race bullet mufflers.  I dropped the car off at the chassis/exhaust shop right next to my painter.  There were able to fab up the necessary pieces to have the exhuast flow like i wanted and to adjust the pipes.  then it was off to have the skirts painted to match.<img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720098_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720099_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720100_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720101_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720102_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720103_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720104_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720105_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720106_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720107_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Finished product:<img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720109_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/2054/4441/5134720115_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>