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Originally Posted by lsturbointeg
This should have been a straight Bolt on affair without any modifications
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Id be willing to bet the downpipes may not even be made by them other than the original design, so while its "their fault" it didnt fit, it very well could have been assembly error or poor quality control by the true manufacturer. Other than a handful of large companies with the ability to mass produce mandrel bends and/or lots of welding, many shops will produce the prototype and send it out for mass production. Even with a jig and ordering the components in mass, its very time consuming to tig weld everything together, polish it and get it "sale ready". If they were all hand built on a jig, the quality control would likely be better, but at an increased cost of having to factor a couple hours of assembly time plus prep into each one and having one guy down all the time doing it.
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