First off, not pics yet. Just finished install last night late, but will post soon... sorry.
So I installed my JBA catback late last night. It's built pretty well. Fit was nice no issues with install. Took about 1 hour, most of which was removing the stock exhaust, (two of the bolts from the muffler to the tail pipe, were a little tought to break free). It's all stainless, but is not fully polished. The tip is a 3 1/2 ' round chrome plated. It looks nice and fits the car well. Although it follows the same line at the stock exhaust so from the side it looks like it's angled down slightly. Overall not too bad.
First drive:
The system is definately louder than stock. At idle it has a little bit of a rumble pretty mellow. Off idle it starts to wake up. Under normal driving, you can hear it. Under acceleration it is loud.
Overall impression:
Sound quality--A bit too "ricer" for me. Doesn't drone or resonate so much but just has that fast and furious tone to it. You get a little bit of popping during decelleration.
Sound level -- Nice at ldle, on the louder side at highway speeds, pretty loud with the petal to the metal.
Build quality -- Built nicley, no issues. quality piece.
Performance -- No seat of the pants difference from my first few drives. I already have the TRD CAI. That made much more of a difference than the exhuast from what I can tell.
Overall -- I will be switching back to stock. This is a nice set up but too loud for me in my daily driver. If I had another 100hp I wound't mind so much, but with a stock V6 too much bark and not enough bite for the noise level.
Recommendation -- Good set up if you want a louder well built catback. I only paid $267 after tax and shipping on ebay, so not bad for the price.
If anyone is interested in buying my slightly used JBA catback PM me
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