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      05-06-2012, 09:45 PM   #154
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Originally Posted by Poleposition View Post
Pex, the money you'll spend on an OEM exhaust from BMW Performance, you could have just gotten the 8 cyl X6, no? I assume it would be $3500 for the exhaust. Amortize that $3500 over a 36 month lease and your in X6 5.0 range
For the money I spent on our 3.5 I could have gotten an 8 cyl

It wasn't a money issue with the engine change, but your point it well made. The muffler kit is $1,900.00 full list. I can get it installed for @ $1,750.00. It's an hour labor, so presumably it can be removed for an hours labor as well at lease turn in and ebay it for half of what it costs. "Fast & Furious" mods sell like wildfire. I put a Dinan exhaust on my 550 and hated the drone. I sold it within a month and lost $200...

My only concern about the sport exhaust (which comes on the X5 m sport 35i) is that its very nasally (its that 335is 6 cyl sound) when accelerating on the highway and the valve opens. Its hard to believe if you're used to a V8 X6, but the 3.5 with this 8 speed rides like a 7 on the highway. Its downright quiet at 100 @2000k rpms. But the Toyota startup has gotta go.

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