What happened to my post about my SW axleback?
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Doubt it.
Are you talking about this one?
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Are you talking about this one?
Anyone have SW (or other) exhuast?
Was looking at their axleback or catback, but I dont want to sawzall stuff if I dont need to. 1200 bucks is tempting tho. I want to keep the dual mode exhaust. I'm looking at either Borla or SW for around 2K as BB and the magnaflow with CF tips approach 3K. I want something a tad more...
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Damn that’s weird.
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It appears that you're not the first person with SW problems, there are countless threads on this topic and here are a couple that go back to 2012 and are still available for reference.
Stainless Works Install Issues
Stainless Works CatBack Exhaust Install issues Ugh... So I got my Stainless Works Catback system yesterday and took it to the installer today. I showed him the video and emphasized that the Xpipe needed to be centered. So I go to pick it up and the tailpipes are having issues getting...
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Stainless works sucks!!
Had nothing but problems with my stainless works exhaust. Here is a list of things I didn't have to go through with a Magnaflow exhaust I installed at my house. Mufflers didn't line up correctly. Driver side muffler hangs lower than the passenger. Had to take it to a muffler shop to get it...
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Yeah I thought SW would be be better being made in America. I’ve had several corsa and borla systems that fit like a glove. The TIG welds were beautiful but fitment sucked and SW could care less. Long story a vendor chimed in offering to sell someone a SW axleback and one or two people tried to talk him out of it then the thread disappeared.
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Ahhhh that makes sense, thread spoiler! give em the boot!
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For the record, it was not a vendor, it was another member who violated the rules.
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Sold the guy looking for one without a wait one that was in stock. Did not request anything of the mods, We didn’t sell to you so have nothing to do with your situation with SW good or bad. Just saw a guy looking for an axle back without a 3 month wait and let him know we had one…
Understood. For the record I bought from Mont and he was great so no beef with him at all. SW was another story though.
Thanks for clearing that up. Care to share what rule was broken? Also, where can I find the rules for review? All I see is the ToS.
I learned that the hard way. I thought it was made in America quality. 1300 for an axleback didnt seem budget to me.
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Just a comment:
My first set of headers was custom made at his shop, for my car in 1962,
a 409 Chevrolet, by Jerry Jardine, of Jardine Headers.
Around that time, others began to sell 'Pre-Made / OTC', Headers over the counter.
These headers were made, by using cars donated to the header
manufacturer, as they got a free set of headers..
What was found later, was that some of those headers did not exactly fit,
as a small differences (maybe as little as a 1/4") in where the frame, or the
steering column, etc. might be, made big differences in fitment.
So, here is the question for you. . .
Was it the donated car, or Is it your car,
that is causing the fitment error?
Also, you wrote:
"The TIG welds were beautiful but fitment sucked"
Seems to me that quality does matter to SW. . . .
Cheers
My first set of headers was custom made at his shop, for my car in 1962,
a 409 Chevrolet, by Jerry Jardine, of Jardine Headers.
Around that time, others began to sell 'Pre-Made / OTC', Headers over the counter.
These headers were made, by using cars donated to the header
manufacturer, as they got a free set of headers..
What was found later, was that some of those headers did not exactly fit,
as a small differences (maybe as little as a 1/4") in where the frame, or the
steering column, etc. might be, made big differences in fitment.
So, here is the question for you. . .
Was it the donated car, or Is it your car,
that is causing the fitment error?
Also, you wrote:
"The TIG welds were beautiful but fitment sucked"
Seems to me that quality does matter to SW. . . .
Cheers
I put a stainless works cat back on. Needed to modify the muffler hangers to get it to hang proper. As soon as the exhaust got hot it would expand and hit a mount on the car and rattle. The car was on the hoist probably 10 times tweaking it for proper figment (Glad I have one in the garage) - the drone was too much for me. So I took it off 2 weeks later…..
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Jig Built Header Companies need continued input regarding fitment issues.
Did you call SW and make them aware of this issue?
I sold many, many sets of headers when I was in that business.
Anytime I called a header manufacturer, and let them know there
was an issue, the first thing out of their mouths would be; would the
customer mind making some measurements for them, so that they
could compare those measurements with their engineering documents.
I remember that on a certain Ford Pickup, I worked with them to
help them change their engineering documents three times, before
they felt they would be able to release a new header for that application.
Matter of fact; they all welcomed my phone call, as they don't make money if products are returned.
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The biggest issue surrounding primary pipe fitment was;
they really did not want to turn the primary pipe down to soon, as it might cost performance.
So if you had to dent it with a small hammer, the cost in performance might still be better, then if they turned the primary pipe downward too soon, as it exited the exhaust port off the head. This is because the primary header pipe is still hot at this point, which means the velocity is still high.
Second reason given; as we move to the rear of the engine, and we attempt to keep the primary pipes the same length, the primary pipes off the head, would need to have a generous radius.
Cheers
RD
Did you call SW and make them aware of this issue?
I sold many, many sets of headers when I was in that business.
Anytime I called a header manufacturer, and let them know there
was an issue, the first thing out of their mouths would be; would the
customer mind making some measurements for them, so that they
could compare those measurements with their engineering documents.
I remember that on a certain Ford Pickup, I worked with them to
help them change their engineering documents three times, before
they felt they would be able to release a new header for that application.
Matter of fact; they all welcomed my phone call, as they don't make money if products are returned.
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The biggest issue surrounding primary pipe fitment was;
they really did not want to turn the primary pipe down to soon, as it might cost performance.
So if you had to dent it with a small hammer, the cost in performance might still be better, then if they turned the primary pipe downward too soon, as it exited the exhaust port off the head. This is because the primary header pipe is still hot at this point, which means the velocity is still high.
Second reason given; as we move to the rear of the engine, and we attempt to keep the primary pipes the same length, the primary pipes off the head, would need to have a generous radius.
Cheers
RD
I have never had this issue with ARH, Borla or Corsa. Yes, I did contact SW about the issue. They asked me to send pictures of the exhaust from under the car which I did, at which point they ghosted me for two weeks. A few hours after I told the vendor that I could not recommend the system, he reached out to his SW rep and SW magically emailed me hours later and told me that the hangars could be bent in shipment and might need adjustment. I LOLed. Those hangars are solid 3/8 round stock and needed a lot of "persuasion" to be bent, so yeah sorry they're not bending in a box, especially how well they were packed. In any case I feel like a broken record because all this was laid out in my deleted post.
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