The camera is slightly pointed up because I was backed up close to my house when I took it. If you stand back a good distance, the tips can be seen. For a good reference, use the under bumper trailer hitch frame to see that the tips drop down to about the middle of the thickness of the square tubing—or maybe about 1/4 as much as the factory tip—and that is only because the tip curves down. If it was cutoff straight I don’t think it would be visible at all. The picture below kind of shows how the pipe is tucked up high, but only the tip angles down, and is lower. Look at the bottom edge of the rear fender, it angles up towards the rear of the vehicle, and makes the curved portion of the tip slightly visible from the side.
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Not really, if anything it's harder to hear the turbos over the exhaust now. It had a ton of turbo whistle before, but the resonators more or less got rid of that. I have bigger turbos, charge pipes, intercooler, and the SB intake with the side lid off. The cold air intake made the biggest difference in turbo spool noise by a big margin (aside from the turbos themselves of course). I also did a plumb-back BOV which gave it a bit of turbo chirp/flutter which is fun!
Happy to help! This forum needs more guinea pigs
Thank you for putting up with meJust finished the install on mine. Thanks Dirt Derrick for getting these, and everything else, out to me in a quick fashion—even after I changed the order from Black tips to Bash Tips. And thanks to Logan at TMX (they are so busy) for busting his butt in helping install the exhaust when every lift was full and he did it all on his back with a creeper.
I went with the Bash Tips as I am setting up for Baja and Raptor runs. So far, I haven’t seen anyone else show these yet.
My truck is mildly modified with Entire Process West Stage 2 Intercooler, Pipes, Air Box. Has Garrett Powermax Turbos, Ruthenium Plugs, IAG AOS, SPD Catted Downpipes, 170 thermostat, Nostrum Series “X” kit HPFP, Stage 3 injectors, Ethanol Content Analyzer, Custom e85 Dyno Tune, etc
The The Bash Tip pipes near the bumper are tucked up and out of the way. They slightly curve down. I have a future project of adding On Board Air similar to the Australian/Ford ARB (inside the rear passenger side quarter panel). I changed everything from the factory kit (They wouldn’t sell it to me here I. U.S.) I wanted to make sure the ARB air tanks and brackets I have chosen to add to my version of the kit will clear the raised exhaust profile—they do.
To show the Bash Tip, I had to take pic from below the bumper-it is tucked up in there pretty good . Others have asked if you could change tips—not with the Bash Tips. You would have to change the entire the entire rear pipe assemblies that connect over the axle. The Bash Tips have rings welded on, take a higher path, and have the Tip curved and pointing down—all of which make it impossible to just add a different tip and have it point out from under the bumper like their standard 5” tips.
I have not driven it much to get a “good Feel” of how I like the sound—I was late and stuck in traffic and had to get home and be somewhere else. My initial impression is that the equal length pipes seem to make that high-rpm hum that I do dearly love from the Nissan 35GTR when you are in full boost 4000rpm and over. Reving the engine in all modes makes a symphony. Quiet mode is not as quiet anymore. Baja is significantly louder and so far, I’m really liking the tone. For some reason, I can now hear my turbos wine when I rev the engine. I need to drive it for a while, under the conditions I always drive in to see how I like it. So far, I am really impressed.
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