Custom exhaust

[Graham]

Ready yet?

$250 is alot.

magnaflow will be taking my car in next week to prototype a catback

What ever happened with this? Maybe we can do a group buy on the first production run... Did they take your car and prototype it? How does it sound? Ect..

 

[jpierro79]

Custom exhaust DIY

Since I work in a shop and have a welder I was thinking of using Jegs Universal kit to make my own exhaust. It is all mendrel bent and its only a matter of making the correct cuts. I have exhaust hangers the only thing I would need is another 2.5 flange to replace the one at the rear of the second cat. I dont know why but it is reduced to 1.75 just before that flange. JEGS Performance Products 30671 JEGS Street Rod/Muscle Car Exhaust Kits Also my girlfriend has a sedan and the only difference from the cat back to the hatchback is the length of the tail pipe. I cant understand why people can't just make the kits for sedans already. Its literally adding a few inches of tail pipe.

 

[djinn]

Since I work in a shop and have a welder I was thinking of using Jegs Universal kit to make my own exhaust. It is all mendrel bent and its only a matter of making the correct cuts. I have exhaust hangers the only thing I would need is another 2.5 flange to replace the one at the rear of the second cat. I dont know why but it is reduced to 1.75 just before that flange. JEGS Performance Products 30671 JEGS Street Rod/Muscle Car Exhaust Kits Also my girlfriend has a sedan and the only difference from the cat back to the hatchback is the length of the tail pipe. I cant understand why people can't just make the kits for sedans already. Its literally adding a few inches of tail pipe.

I was thinking of doing that, too. Get some good SS pipe and fab one up... We have a friend of the family that's an expert welder, so I can probably get the labour done cheap. I've already designed the system so it goes cat > Magnaflow 12158 > dual exit on my bumper. The nice thing about that Magnaflow is that it's completely reversible so any pipe can go anywhere (if I read it right).

 

[rdss]

Since I work in a shop and have a welder I was thinking of using Jegs Universal kit to make my own exhaust. It is all mendrel bent and its only a matter of making the correct cuts. I have exhaust hangers the only thing I would need is another 2.5 flange to replace the one at the rear of the second cat. I dont know why but it is reduced to 1.75 just before that flange. JEGS Performance Products 30671 JEGS Street Rod/Muscle Car Exhaust Kits Also my girlfriend has a sedan and the only difference from the cat back to the hatchback is the length of the tail pipe. I cant understand why people can't just make the kits for sedans already. Its literally adding a few inches of tail pipe.

I'm planning on taking the SLP HB cat back for the 1.8 and making it work on my 1.4T Sedan. I am thinking all I need is a slip on down pipe with enough length to get it close to the back bumper like it is with the stock exhaust. It's only a matter of time now, once I get back from deployment a tune is pry one followed by cutting the neck off the box and throwing a K&N cone filter on then the SLP exhaust. Hopefully Trifecta and SLP have a great 4th of July sale, the 4th is getting close and I'm keeping an eye on my email.

 

[gotboost]

i have full 3in turbo back no cats or muffler and luv it sounds mean as hell

 

[rdss]

i have full 3in turbo back no cats or muffler and luv it sounds mean as hell

Wow, you have a 3" turbo back exhaust on the little 1.4?! Did you lose any low end power and are you tuned for it? I would like to hear it.

 

[Eric Smit]

Wow, you have a 3" turbo back exhaust on the little 1.4?! Did you lose any low end power and are you tuned for it? I would like to hear it.

Ditto.


-Eric Smit

 

[CoHPhasor]

^ Well as I mentioned before, his spool is going to be much, much sooner than anyone else on the forum.
ASSUMING, he has a good intake setup and the exhaust is PROPERLY flowing. The only other thing to really help would be a good intercooler.
(NOT an eBay crapper)

 

[SUPER SONIC BOOM]

Has anyone seen Rob Dierdeck's "Super Sonic" (the one he kick flips), if you look closely at the slowmo replay there's a side exit straight pipe exhaust, I was thinking of doing that to mine! It's on the driver's side right before the rear tire (just like my SRT-4 was), I bet it's pretty loud & rumbly. Gotta find out if it's legal though, should be since it's after the cats anyways, just have a local muffler shop make one custom for me. I personally love loudass cars lol! No resonators, mufflers, tips, or any bull****, just straight catback pipe exhaust (oh yeah baby)!

 

[Eric Smit]

Had my guy weld in a 2.5 inch pipe back from the first cat with a Spectre Exhaust Tip.

Cost: $180.
Time: 1.5 hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-y9JZra2o&feature=youtube_gdata_player


-Eric Smit

 

[CoHPhasor]

Pretty sweet there DJ2C862! ;-)

Quite throaty, I'd definitely be satisfied with a note like that... if it doesn't drone, that is.

 

[Eric Smit]

As stated before, I have no problem sharing my license plate. haha. I already have my real name on the forum; you can probably find my address if you google the right thing.

But, that exhaust tip has a resonator built in. I only bought the tip to try it out and see if the resonator works.

Unfortunately, I have a very unpleasant precisely at 83 MPH.

haha. Yeah, it doesn't drone. Surprisingly, that tip seems to have done the trick. I can find the part number if you really want it.


-Eric Smit

 

[CoHPhasor]

Very cool, Eric... I'll see when mine finally arrives!

 

[Preloader]

That sounds fuggin' mean.... Who'd have thought a lil 1.4 could growl like that?
Is it possible that drone is not a concern when diameter gets up to 2.5"? I find it hard to believe that a Resonator-equipped tip (and yes I do want that p/n ) could solve a drone that usually requires one between 8-14".

 

[Eric Smit]

p/n-22354

Spectre Performance Exhaust Tip, Stainless Steel, Polished, 2.75 in. Inlet, 3.5 in. Outlet, 9 in Length, Slant Cut, Rolled Edge

Here is their website.

Don't buy it online though. I got it at O'Reilly's for 12 bucks.


-Eric Smit

 

[JimmyBuckets]

What kind of pipe?

 

[jpierro79]

I'm planning on taking the SLP HB cat back for the 1.8 and making it work on my 1.4T Sedan. I am thinking all I need is a slip on down pipe with enough length to get it close to the back bumper like it is with the stock exhaust. It's only a matter of time now, once I get back from deployment a tune is pry one followed by cutting the neck off the box and throwing a K&N cone filter on then the SLP exhaust. Hopefully Trifecta and SLP have a great 4th of July sale, the 4th is getting close and I'm keeping an eye on my email.

I did the muffler delete already and let me tell you its extremely quite for no muffler. If you get the exhaust by slp you might as well discard the muffler.

 

[Opticon]

I'm going to try 3" from the second cat with no resonators or muffler. I think if the tone was just a tad deeper it would sound like the SRT4 Neon.

 

[Eric Smit]

What kind of pipe?

Stainless steel, mandrel bent.


-Eric Smit

 

[rdss]

I did the muffler delete already and let me tell you its extremely quite for no muffler. If you get the exhaust by slp you might as well discard the muffler.

Yeah, I'm expecting to drop in a piece of pipe in place of the muffler with a turn down like stock and maybe keep the muffler and lose the resonator, only time will tell. I just like the idea of having the option to run quite or loud with some stainless steel pipe, I have a 4 year old son that would love a loud car but I can't subject his ears to it and feel like a good dad.