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      10-27-2015, 11:25 AM   #1
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VRSF catless DP

Hi,

I ordered VRSF catless dp from Mike at Extreme power house on Monday and i received it on Thursday. Mike is great to work with, answered bunch of questions i had and was professional. I highly recommend him to anyone that is looking to modify their car.

I installed the VRSF catless DP with a help of my friend who has a shop and a lift. Overall it was pretty easy, 1hr job. The hardest part was taking off the stock downpipe as its much wider than the VRSF and not much room there. Once the VRSF DP was installed, we didn't connect the exhaust to it yet and started the car to see how it sounds, OMG, it was pretty damn loud, but nice.. (I wouldn't mind having a electric cutout valve or whatever they are called).

Overall the sound is amazing, its quiet when cruising but once you get on it, its sounds like a race car, i love it. I have M-performance exhaust, so i don't know how it sounds on a stock exhaust, but i would guess it would be similar.

The first time i took it for a a test drive, all sport settings, OMG, i was loosing traction left and right, i definitely felt power increase throughout the RPM range (running JB4 on map 1).
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Nice! I am so tempted to do this!

Is your car tuned? If not, are you getting CEL? What did you do about the O2 sensor?
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      10-27-2015, 06:35 PM   #3
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Nice! I am so tempted to do this!

Is your car tuned? If not, are you getting CEL? What did you do about the O2 sensor?
My car is tuned, i'm running JB4 which clears the CEL.
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Welcome to the club.

Would love to hear what the MPE adds to the equation.

Why not map 2 or 5, no 93 octane fuel available?
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Hi,

I ordered VRSF catless dp from Mike at Extreme power house on Monday and i received it on Thursday. Mike is great to work with, answered bunch of questions i had and was professional. I highly recommend him to anyone that is looking to modify their car.

I installed the VRSF catless DP with a help of my friend who has a shop and a lift. Overall it was pretty easy, 1hr job. The hardest part was taking off the stock downpipe as its much wider than the VRSF and not much room there. Once the VRSF DP was installed, we didn't connect the exhaust to it yet and started the car to see how it sounds, OMG, it was pretty damn loud, but nice.. (I wouldn't mind having a electric cutout valve or whatever they are called).

Overall the sound is amazing, its quiet when cruising but once you get on it, its sounds like a race car, i love it. I have M-performance exhaust, so i don't know how it sounds on a stock exhaust, but i would guess it would be similar.

The first time i took it for a a test drive, all sport settings, OMG, i was loosing traction left and right, i definitely felt power increase throughout the RPM range (running JB4 on map 1).
The gains will be minimal on map1... Map up!

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Would love to hear what the MPE adds to the equation.

Why not map 2 or 5, no 93 octane fuel available?
I only have this crappy 91 octane here, should I try map 5?
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I only have this crappy 91 octane here, should I try map 5?
yes for sure...

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yes for sure...

Mike
hmm, i have the updated firmware, ok, i will switch from map 1 to 5 and report back.

Thanks
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Hi,

I ordered VRSF catless dp from Mike at Extreme power house on Monday and i received it on Thursday. Mike is great to work with, answered bunch of questions i had and was professional. I highly recommend him to anyone that is looking to modify their car.

I installed the VRSF catless DP with a help of my friend who has a shop and a lift. Overall it was pretty easy, 1hr job. The hardest part was taking off the stock downpipe as its much wider than the VRSF and not much room there. Once the VRSF DP was installed, we didn't connect the exhaust to it yet and started the car to see how it sounds, OMG, it was pretty damn loud, but nice.. (I wouldn't mind having a electric cutout valve or whatever they are called).

Overall the sound is amazing, its quiet when cruising but once you get on it, its sounds like a race car, i love it. I have M-performance exhaust, so i don't know how it sounds on a stock exhaust, but i would guess it would be similar.

The first time i took it for a a test drive, all sport settings, OMG, i was loosing traction left and right, i definitely felt power increase throughout the RPM range (running JB4 on map 1).
Glad you like it
Lets us know what you think of map 5 with your current mods
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I would love a in cab sound video. I have the performance exhaust and i'm wanting to see if the catless will be to loud.
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I would love a in cab sound video. I have the performance exhaust and i'm wanting to see if the catless will be to loud.
at crusing it's barely noticeable but when you get on it that's when the sound comes alive, sounds like a race car, I love it. Cold start in the morning is really loud but then it settles down. I'll try to get some videos for you..
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I would love a in cab sound video. I have the performance exhaust and i'm wanting to see if the catless will be to loud.
As arkow said when daily driving sound is not loud.
It gets really loud on WOT and the first couple minutes during cold start
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Glad you're enjoying it
are you guys working on the bigger intercooler still or is it getting closer to being released?
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