ameaglemike
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But that’s what happens when Summit Racing opens a huge warehouse, showroom, and store 2 miles from the house you grew up in….
The wife is going kill me….
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But that’s what happens when Summit Racing opens a huge warehouse, showroom, and store 2 miles from the house you grew up in….
LamboTexas
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That’s awesome! I bet she’ll love the sound too…hopefully!
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Well I showed her the videos of the different exhausts online, and showed her the pictures of the chrome quad tip exhausts, of which she loved both. Plus she bitches about the gas mileage of the truck, and as we all know, the more air you get in and out of an engine, the better gas mileage you’re going to get…
Plus, I know my dad wanted to do these modifications to the truck, so that makes me feel like I’m doing it “for him” as well.
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I bought the S-Type. I’ll be honest, while I prefer the sound of the ATAK (at least in the videos I’ve seen), Summit only had the chrome quad tips in stock for the S-Type. I didn’t want to use the stock tips, and didn’t want the carbon fiber ones. With the Red Quartz color of my truck, the chrome tips look best.
I'd say you made the right choice.
reconnaisshaw
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Just got done swapping out the GM performance (Borla Touring) for the Borla Stype on mine. It sounds just right imo. The ATAK is a bit too aggressive for me but it's all subjective.
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How does it sound when you’re driving down the highway at 70mph or 80mph? Is it overly loud or overly high pitched or anything like that?
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Which intake do you have? After opening the box, I am seriously, seriously considering I’m returning the K&N kit and getting the Cold Air Inductions kit. It’s only $20 more, and after I opened the box, it looked really cheap. Not like cheap quality, but like 1990’s Honda Civic “I bought an APC intake at Autozone” cheap.
I got the Airaid intake 201-382. It was a toss up between that and the cold air inductions, but I liked the looks of the Airaid and it was one of the few that actually had a dyno sheet with the 6.2. I have a Cold Air Inductions intake on my Trailblazer SS and am very happy with it. I don't think you can go wrong with either one.
reconnaisshaw
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No loud or high pitched sounds for me when cruising. You really hear it best on cold starts, idle, and when you get on it. Other than that, you don't really notice it.
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ameaglemike
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You have a TBSS AND an AT4??? Man, call me jealous lol. I almost traded my GTO in years ago in a TBSS but couldn’t do it. My mom had a 2003 Trailblazer and then a 2008 Trailblazer (both 4.2L I6), and couldn’t trade my baby for a grocery getter.
Anyways, thanks for the advice. I think I am going to return the K&N and get the CAI. I looks better, less parts, less junk, but also the filter is a lot bigger, which means more air and more power.
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Ok I just swapped out the K&N intake for the CAI. I’ll admit I had to double check with the guy when he brought it out from the back that it was correct because the box was half the size of the K&N box. But that’s partly because the CAI reuses the lower part of the stock box, so there’s not as much junk inside, and partly because half the K&N box was filled with packing paper.
I’ll post up pictures once I get everything installed. Might do the intake tonight, depending on this storm we’re supposed to get tonight, and whether it’s going to be the tornado and tennis ball sized hail kind of storm they’re predicting it to be. The exhaust and leveling kit will probably have to wait until after Easter.
I’ll post up pictures once I get everything installed. Might do the intake tonight, depending on this storm we’re supposed to get tonight, and whether it’s going to be the tornado and tennis ball sized hail kind of storm they’re predicting it to be. The exhaust and leveling kit will probably have to wait until after Easter.
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Your welcome. You'll like the Cold Air Inductions intake. After 50 miles of driving the DIC is showing 2 more MPG's, but I'll have to verify that at the pump. Yeah, the TBSS turned out to be quite the project. Ordered it in '06 when they first came out. It's AWD and ran 14.4 in the 1/4 mile stock. Then, decided to put a blower on it, headers, built trans, Borla cat-back, larger throttle body, etc. Then got a laptop and installed HP Tuners to dial it in. The stock 6 rib belt wouldn't hold 10 psi of boost, so I designed an 8 rib pulley kit to overcome that. Then I ended up selling the kits for a number of years which included the 'Vette, GTO, Pontiac G8, Trailblazer SS, Camaro, and Chevy SSR. Even ran 101 octane to bump the timing. Best 1/4 mile was 12.27 @ 110 mph. Still have it with less than 14,000 miles on it. Never had it on the dyno but pushing roughly 600 HP at the crank. The AT4 is close to being done. I'm going to put highway tires on it for the summer with a new set of stock rims that I'll have powder coated gun metal gray and save the A/T tires for winter. That will be about it. Let me know how the CAI sounds. The Airaid is pretty quiet until 1/2 throttle, then it has a throaty growl to it. End of winded post.
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ameaglemike
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Definitely going to need some pictures of the TBSS, especially the engine bay with that blower and belt system.Your welcome. You'll like the Cold Air Inductions intake. After 50 miles of driving the DIC is showing 2 more MPG's, but I'll have to verify that at the pump. Yeah, the TBSS turned out to be quite the project. Ordered it in '06 when they first came out. It's AWD and ran 14.4 in the 1/4 mile stock. Then, decided to put a blower on it, headers, built trans, Borla cat-back, larger throttle body, etc. Then got a laptop and installed HP Tuners to dial it in. The stock 6 rib belt wouldn't hold 10 psi of boost, so I designed an 8 rib pulley kit to overcome that. Then I ended up selling the kits for a number of years which included the 'Vette, GTO, Pontiac G8, Trailblazer SS, Camaro, and Chevy SSR. Even ran 101 octane to bump the timing. Best 1/4 mile was 12.27 @ 110 mph. Still have it with less than 14,000 miles on it. Never had it on the dyno but pushing roughly 600 HP at the crank. The AT4 is close to being done. I'm going to put highway tires on it for the summer with a new set of stock rims that I'll have powder coated gun metal gray and save the A/T tires for winter. That will be about it. Let me know how the CAI sounds. The Airaid is pretty quiet until 1/2 throttle, then it has a throaty growl to it. End of winded post.
A buddy of mine from the GTO group traded his TBSS in on an ‘06 GTO, only to trade his ‘06 GTO in again for another TBSS. They are really awesome, but I just couldn’t get over the fact that my mom had two lol. Plus, while granted I never drove a TBSS, you had to get hers to about 4000 RPMs before it would start to move any. I didn’t want to do that in a daily driver.
