Yes post a video once you get it on. I wonder how it will sound.

 

:thumbsup awesome job, I cant wait to see the video to hear how it sounds

 

How did you know where to cut and weld the pipes if you haven't test fit them yet? Or am I just reading it wrong? I made my own as well, and it is very satisfying when the project is complete.

 

i bet that shit will be loud ! ! !

cant wait for the vid...

 

looks nice...and with that tip. no one will know that you have a custom cat back. :thumbsup

 

hangers? this looks like a real good diy job, but if you had a magnaflow muffler on there it would be so much stealthier.

 

Well I got it on now, and its actually not all that loud, but it sounds pretty good.
It should be a little louder when I replace the cat with a test pipe.
But at any rate its super quiet when compared the the open downpipe I was running on for the last 1000 miles or so.

Anyway as for test fitting it, yes we fitted each piece as we went, and used boxes to hold them up.
It ended up coming out very slightly different than our test fit, but it still looks good. On the test fit it was perfectly centered and hanging about a half inch below the tow loop.
Once we got it on though it hangs a little lower and points slightly out to the side, but I still like it, and if I get really picky I can cut it sometime and re-weld it in a better position.

Anyway I took a video, anyone know where I can host it?

 

Heres the video on putfile: Click here to watch SR20DET_exhaust
If anyone can provide a better host though it would be nice (I actually have lots of 240 vids, although my car is a bit ghetto looking)

It sounds a bit better in person.

Anyone know if I will still be able to hear the turbo whirble? I havnt driven it on the street yet (need to go to e-check and get some tags).

 

sounds like a beast

 

sounds real good i like it. i didnt think it would sound as good as it does. its quiet when you want it to be and aggressive when you want it to :thumbsup

 

good stuff


me and a freind made one for my car used one piece pipe with one bend at the axle

 

Take some pictures from underneath the car so we can see how it fits. Sounds good by the way. :thumbsup

 

sweet man! nice work

 

Nice work man looks god im thinkin about doing that with my car once i finish my turbo manifold

 

sounds goood. how is ground clearance?

 

what type of metal did you use? stainless i hope? and where did you get it so cheap?

 

No its not stainless, thats why it was cheap.
I got em from Jegs, and they have SS pipes but they are like 3X the price.
I am just gonna paint it all black with high temp paint tomarrow or something and that should keep it from rusting mostly.

Im going to a shop soon to change my front tires so I'll try and get a pic of it underneath.

 

not to sound harsh but i got an ebay muffler and had a local exhaust shop fab me pipes from the cat to the muffler out of stainless steel and mandrel bent for 150 bucks . i would have saved the trouble of doing it myself plus it would have saved some money . my 2 cents.

 

Well around here the stainless steel pipes would have cost $120 alone, and shops charge $75 an hour and work slow.

 

Well around here the stainless steel pipes would have cost $120 alone, and shops charge $75 an hour and work slow.

Thats why friends that work at shops are the greatest lol.

 

Yeah I have a few friends that work at shops anyway but this was as close to free labor as you can get. $25 for welding, and I got dinner for two of my friends.

I actually checked around at exhaust shops, and none of them would do mandrel bent piping (a few didnt even know what it was), and most of them could only do 2.5" max crush bent, and they still wanted $300 to $400.

 

Yeah it definitely looks like it will be loud as fuck. Good call on painting the welds. The hangers shouldn't take long because they only need two spot welds for the most part.

 

Nice job...I'm thinking of making my own downpipe and strait pipe now.
Was this the U-bend you bought?
Mandrel U-Bend - Aluminized
Tube OD: 3''
Radius (R): 5''
A: 12''
C: 7''
Part#:289-42323
By Hooker Headers/Dynomax? (19.00each)

 

a while back i was thining about welding up my own cat back. but i decided to just buy an $248 (shipped) SSA cat back. its stainless with resinator, muffler and a free test pipe. if you alreaty spent $200 on it why not just buy an SSA exhaust and skip all the fitting and bull.

o yea when you go test pipe i would expect you to shoot some balls of fire out the tail pipe.

 

o yea when you go test pipe i would expect you to shoot some balls of fire out the tail pipe.

Test pipe + turbo rite?
I don't think NA cars backfire like that....