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I saw a silver 5th gen GT at the Golden's Bridge trainstation in NY when I was visiting that area. Maybe one of you guys?

Sweet. A christmas present for myself.

Any idea when another batch of headers will be ready for the general public?

Install wise do it yourself it's literally the easiest thing you can do maintenance wise other than an oil change

For a budget pad I like EBC green stuff. And centric rotors.

I'm usually around 5.2-5.3 without a launch on Torque and 5.0X-5.1 with a launch, so Italian can definitely be faster than 5 with how much more power he has than me. Brake + Throttle in manual mode, around 2500RPM let go and push the gas in about half way to the floor and then apply more throttle smoothly. Atleast on my car if I just go straight to the floor it doesn't seem to respond as quickly... There's more to it than just flooring it if that makes sense... I don't know why (There's probably a legitimate reason), but that's just what I've found.

I'd go with 3.6 STi or 3.6GT

And we're bad mother-effer.

I'll answer for him because I know the answer to this (I have a Q300). All of the 3.6R exhausts are somewhat custom. Invidia does not make a direct bolt on kit for 3.6Rs, I don't think anyone does. The way it works is around 6-7" is cut off of the midpipe on a Legacy GT kit, then the flange is welded back onto the shorter mid-pipe, and then after that it bolts right up.

From Raptor's Facebook page:

Wouldn't you also need some way for the car to know the clutch is engaged to start it (The same way it requires the car to be in N or P to start)

Well for example it's better than the Subaru 4 speed automatic that I had in my Impreza wagon. It's better than the Mini Cooper CVT and the CVT in the 2.5i. It's definitely better than the auto in my dad's CTS as far as being willing to actually down shift when it needs to. And the paddles are pretty useful, two pulls when you're going around 45 and you're in 2nd and about to to be slammed into your seat by the 3.6-rocket and will be going 70 in a few seconds. What annoys me is jumping from 2nd straight to 4th sometimes, and again not holding at high RPM in a gear.

Yeah, that's one of the few things I regret about the car. But the 5EAT is also by no means the worst automatic transmission I've ever had in a car.

Didn't see that post anywhere on https://www.facebook.com/raptorsc?fref=ts

Where did you get the headers? All I've seen from them EZ36 is related is your car's SC kit, I'd imagine the SC kit also comes with headers though?

Well regardless, anyone who's interested in headers should send an email to Raptor inquiring to show interest and help change it from a "Likely" to a "Definitely will". I've heard that the 3.0 made more power with the headers, so it's possible we would too. But again, it's something that needs to be seen. I wouldn't mind being among the first to try it, although I probably wouldn't pay an exorbitant price to be the first, especially with something unproven. And that's definitely something I'd insist on a tune w/ dyno time for.

If it's designed to work with our cats, could a universal high-flow cat have the appropriate flanges welded on and replace our cats?

I don't think I'd be willing to go catless because I don't want to be that loud, and you can definitely smell a catless car... So I'd rather not chance that. Also in PA if an inspection shop were to look to see if you're catless and notice it they'll fail you... Are our cats already known to be restrictive or do you think we'd need the high flows? Also in the mean time, do you think it's any better to have headers from a company like raptor over having one of the shops I use fabricate them? I'm inclined to think raptor would have more time sunk into R&D, but one of the shops I've used with does a good bit of R&D for other platforms (Miata, BR-Z, and the new WRX) so I'd be willing to give them a shot to make headers; although pricing would probably be pretty high if they were just made for me.

I sent them an email yesterday to register my interest in the headers. Here's what I got back

I hear you on that. I took one of my coworkers for a ride for lunch yesterday. Had to show off a bit...

Stock LGT hoods are probably cheaper. Plus all he needs is the scoop for the tmic. But all of this is of course theoretical.

Well maybe if you got a GT hood you could do a TMIC? Not sure if the GT hood would be a direct fit or not though

I didn't make an official thread, but here's what I have: - Takeda AFE intake - Milk jug delete - HKS Funnel - Invidia Q300 catback exhaust (Created from the Legacy GT kit by cutting off about 7" off the midpipe and rewelding, done by F.A.S.T. of westchester) - Tune from Mike at Moto-East

Rhett: I'll get screenshots next time I have a chance to try at launching it on an open road. I also did it with torque pro, which is never as good as doing it at an actual track. In all fairness it was more of a 10-60 since I did it off of an on ramp... But a GT will still beat me by a good bit at stage 1. So there's that, with a basic tune and very few mods the GT would probably stomp us at least on that test. (apologies, I wanted to make sure this was as accurate as possible, so I revised the previous post) That could very well be part of the problem, also if you didn't step up to 93/91 it's possible you were leaving some power on the table.

Had my tune done today. Unfortunately it was a street tune so the best I have is estimates out of software pretending to be a dyno. But estimated around 230-233 WHP at peak (I did a few different runs on Torque for Android with an ELM327 bluetooth to ODBII) and this was the approximate range; base was 203-205WHP before I started modding (I have a Takeda AFE intake and Invidia Q300 catback exhaust). So if we assume constant HP loss, 256/203 * 230 = estimated around 290HP at the crank. And 0-60 times are 5.2-5.3s. Of course this is rather unscientific because torque is not a dyno; so I'm hesitant to use this as an actual baseline. I had my tune done at Moto East in Bethlehem, PA. I may be going back at some point in the near future to use a dyno with my car, but because I don't have a baseline it's going to be a bit hard to calculate an estimate of what it makes at the crank.