racingline y pipe with stock exhaust

[AltyCoupe]

i have looked all over and just found one video on youtube which sounded a little too raspy for me. But does anyone here have the y pipe with stock exhaust? and if so how do you like it and how does it sound. Im really looking into buying it. thanks!

[rjdmmfl1]

i have looked all over and just found one video on youtube which sounded a little too raspy for me. But does anyone here have the y pipe with stock exhaust? and if so how do you like it and how does it sound. Im really looking into buying it. thanks!

if anything, the y-pipe improves almost every exhaust out there. Now, to be honest, I know the dyno was done on the stock exhaust, but the stock exhaust has a really flat restrictive pipe that is reducing ehaust flow. I can't imagine why you would want to keep the stock exhaust with the Y-pipe

now if cost is of concern, I would suggest the ebay special $175 exhaust! trust me, I know what you're thinking, and so was I, but for this has got to be the most well made high quality $175 exhaust in the world. Not saying its the best exhaust, I'm just saying, for $175 it does the job and does the job well. the only downfall is the ugly exhuast tips, but those can easily be changed out at your local Meineke shop for like $40 bucks per side. even with that added cost, it is still a very good bag for your buck mod!

the only thing about this exhaust is taht it has a reconator to keep the sound down, but you could also get a miffler shop to cut the resonator out, and replace it with a straight pip... if you want it to sound more aggressive.

So again, if you have the Y-pipe, the ebay $175 exhaust plus replacement tips is a great bargain, and if I had to do my exhuast over again, I would do it this way 20 time out of 20!!!!

Now if you want your setup louder, then you can just go with another catback exhaust, but honestly, the ebay special http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...Parts in my opinion is a great way to go! Oh yeah, did I mention that its $175 shipped!!!!!

[AltyCoupe]

yea the problem is definalty the price for a nice exhaust. I just want a more aggresive sound compared to the stock but not annoying. I know if i go with the ebay special im going to be dissapointed and wished i put my money towards a nismo =/. I have been litterally looking at getting an exhaust for the past 8 months ever since i bought my car. Does anyone know where i can get the nismo for the cheapest???!? cant find any on ebay.

thanks

[stevek3670]

To be honest with you i was looking at our stock exhaust system and the only flat spot of the exhaust is in the y-pipe section so once you get the y-pipe there is no more flat spot yay!

[XXplosive990]

that video on youtube was probably mine. alot of the raspiness came from me not having used sealant the first time around and having an exhaust leak. i ended up sealing that up and it sounds less raspy. but a very nice tone

[rjdmmfl1]

To be honest with you i was looking at our stock exhaust system and the only flat spot of the exhaust is in the y-pipe section so once you get the y-pipe there is no more flat spot yay!

definitely NOT accurate ... there is a flat space in BOTh the y-pipe AND the factory exhaust!

yea the problem is definalty the price for a nice exhaust. I just want a more aggresive sound compared to the stock but not annoying. I know if i go with the ebay special im going to be dissapointed and wished i put my money towards a nismo =/. I have been litterally looking at getting an exhaust for the past 8 months ever since i bought my car. Does anyone know where i can get the nismo for the cheapest???!? cant find any on ebay.

thanks

I will try and get a sound clip of my exhaust with the y-pipe... In my opinion, that combination sounds perfect for me, but I needed a mild setup in order for me to enjoy my audio system.

The y-pipe with anything is a great improvement over stock. Actually, in my opinion, the y-pipe by itself sounds more aggressive than both the Nismo and Stillen exhausts... both of them are nice quality exhausts, but they aren't very aggressive.

In any case, go ahead and get the y-pipe, see how it sounds with the stock exhaust, and if it sounds good, keep it. If you want more, then start looking at exhausts, but youwill NOT find the Nismo exhaust for cheap anywhere!

[AltyCoupe]

if you can get a sound clip that would be awesome. Im prolly going to order it and chances are i will like it but if worst comes to worst i will return. appreciate the help man ill keep you updated as soon as i order it.

[rjdmmfl1]

if you can get a sound clip that would be awesome. Im prolly going to order it and chances are i will like it but if worst comes to worst i will return. appreciate the help man ill keep you updated as soon as i order it.

well this is the thing, if you get it, be sure you pai it up with the Y-pipe, but then you have to let it settle in for a week or two to really hear how the combination will sound!!!! honestly, the ebay exhaust by itself, even with the nice diameter mandrel bent stainless steel piping, isnt very aggressive at all duee to the resonator built in... but I will tell you, if I could do this whole thing 100 times over, I would go with my current setup everytime. For $175, once you replace those fugly tips, you just can't beat the price. Again, bruh, its $175 .. to be honest, for what you get, I would def pay twice as much for it... I honestly don't know how they sell it for so cheap! But then again, any muffler shop can build you a custom exhaust for a few hundred nucks if they wanted to... most of the sound has to do with the mufflers... that's where folks that pay $1000 get raped IMO... some folks are paying $700 for a name brand eexhaust that simply took magnaflow mufflers, embossed their company name on them, and jacked the price up

[The_alchemist]

so how much is the exhaust????

[AltyCoupe]

you see the thing is i would be down to get that custom exhaust because i dont doubt it would be the BEST bang for my buck, but nismo has me sold on the 50 state legal thing. where i live, cops will rape me. BUT i dont think the ebay exhaust would be too loud with the y pipe. dude if you can get me a quality sound clip, im ready to order if i like it. also, can i use my stock exhaust tips?? or would the piping be small?

[rjdmmfl1]

you see the thing is i would be down to get that custom exhaust because i dont doubt it would be the BEST bang for my buck, but nismo has me sold on the 50 state legal thing. where i live, cops will rape me. BUT i dont think the ebay exhaust would be too loud with the y pipe. dude if you can get me a quality sound clip, im ready to order if i like it. also, can i use my stock exhaust tips?? or would the piping be small?

stock exhast tips might be too small...

[CoupeVQ35CVT]

+1 to ebay exhaust. I'm in the process of making up my mind about the y-pipe (some $$ and legal consideration since the main cat will be gone) but definitely have been thinking about removing the resonator on teh ebay exhaust I have.

So Dr.... let's get that sound clip. I wanna know how my coupe will sound with the y-pipe AND resonator removed haha. I was thinking it may be too annoying but if the resonator removal doesn't let too much drone into the car I'll probably get'r done the same.

Glad you're liking the ebay special. Haha and promoting the hell outta it in this thread.

[DJ_B_Easy]

Id also like to hear this Ebay + Y=pipe combo.

Im running the Y-pipe with stock exhaust right now and I think it already sounds great. If you are saying you didnt want a loud set-up because of drowning out your music than you may have just sold another Ebay exhaust.

[DJ_B_Easy]

RJ Id also like to hear your opinion on the performance. I just read the claim on Ebay of 12-20 WHP? Think that is accurate?

[CoupeVQ35CVT]

RJ Id also like to hear your opinion on the performance. I just read the claim on Ebay of 12-20 WHP? Think that is accurate?

I wanna say a big fat HELL NO.

At least, I can't tell if it's any faster. To be fair when I installed it the engine wasn't revved past 3.5k rpm much because it was < 1k miles so I hadn't anything to compare it to. That said, I just got it for the sound because it was cheap. I HIGHLY doubt it magically frees up even 5-10 hp considering that it is simply 2.5" instead of 2.25" and doesn't have that crimp at end like the OEM did.

Then again I did add 20 hp muffler bearings, that might be the reason the exhaust isn't working properly.

[josiskrazy]

i bought one of those ebay exhaust, the TopSpeed Pro1, it ended up being $320 shipped...Ive had since last week but im waiting for the ypipe to come in, i also bought off ebay but from the racingline account...fedex hasnt updated the tracking but it says its coming on April2nd froday, so if it does ill be putting it on this saturday, and ill get a sound clip up for it too...

i couldnt find any sound clips of the topspeed on the altima coupe, mostly g35 and 350z but alot of them seem to like the sound of it.

[XXplosive990]

+1 for the y-pipe ebay exhaust combo! im debating on getting the ebay exhaust right now

[AltyCoupe]

+1 for the y-pipe ebay exhaust combo! im debating on getting the ebay exhaust right now

im so close to pressing buy now ahaha!!!

[stevek3670]

I cant wait to hear how the topseepd ebay exhaust sounds because I was thinking about either getting that exhaust or having a custom exhuast built, and i just ordered the y-pipes as well yay lol

[DJ_B_Easy]

Just found this clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1nXq_A36P4

This is just the Ebay exhaust, no Y-pipe, but if this is the $175 jam RJ was referring to I think it sounds pretty good. Not too over the top loud and I bet it sounds just a little more mean with the Y-pipe. If you read the comments it says he was only revving to 3500 because of engine break in.

[josiskrazy]

Just found this clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1nXq_A36P4

This is just the Ebay exhaust, no Y-pipe, but if this is the $175 jam RJ was referring to I think it sounds pretty good. Not too over the top loud and I bet it sounds just a little more mean with the Y-pipe. If you read the comments it says he was only revving to 3500 because of engine break in.

i believe that was CoupeVQ35CVT's clip...it doesnt sound to bad, but the tips were a bit off, i think he got new tips now so its not an issue.

[rjdmmfl1]

i believe that was CoupeVQ35CVT's clip...it doesnt sound to bad, but the tips were a bit off, i think he got new tips now so its not an issue.

yes, his tips were replaced... replacing the tips in the ebay exhaust is an absolute must...

let me first just clear up some things about the ebay exhaust...

1. The ebay exhaust is not the meanest sounding exhaust out there. Largely because of the resonator. No one has cut the resonator out yet so we don't know what it would sound like with it out. But the quality of the build of the exhaust (minus the fugly tips) is far beyond what I personally would expect from a $139.99 exhaust. FAR BEYOND! To get mandrel bent 2.5" SS piping full catback at that price that arrives and looks like this, with PERFECT fitment is crazy to me and that's why I'm such an advocate of this exhaust.

2. Exhaust + Y=pipe. I absolutely LOVE this combo. DJ Beasty, if you are looking for an exhaust combo that will not drown out your music, and not having either an annoying drone at idle and on ascceleration under load that most of the other exhausts I've heard have... this is the one for you. No raspiness, no drone (mainly becuase of the resonator) just a deeper undertone compared to factory. As previously mentioned, close to, but not exactly like a 350Z tone (And it's not that I was going for a 350Z sound at all, its just the closest thing I can compare it to. )

I'm gonna have a sound clip up by the end of the day...It won't be the highest quality clip as I don't have a digital recorder other than my blackberry, but hopefully it will give a decent representation. If I listen to it and it doesn't represent it well, I won't post it becuase I don't want to mislead anyone.

[CoupeVQ35CVT]

i believe that was CoupeVQ35CVT's clip...it doesnt sound to bad, but the tips were a bit off, i think he got new tips now so its not an issue.

Yup that's mine.

It does sound quite mean but behaved and almost 350z/G35 ish under the right amount of load and revs. Just around 3k rpm under a small load it sounds really blurby and Z like in my experience. It is a bit quiet for me so I am debating on removing the resonator - but I'm not sure how that will sound IF I add a y-pipe. I don't want drone inside the car so that's my concern.

Also revving it up high with a quick blip of the throttle sounds a bit more aggressive compared to the clip I posted. I'm actually trying to get around to recording and posting an updated sound clip with the newer tips (the right side is all dirty now because of the exhaust flow), and revving past 3.5k rpm finally. hehe.

Definitely will be waiting on the Y-pipe + ebay exhaust clip today.

[blackteam02]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...annel

...just posting up mine in here...

[mcheddadi]

[...] the stock exhaust has a really flat restrictive pipe that is reducing ehaust flow. I can't imagine why you would want to keep the stock exhaust with the Y-pipe[...]

thats for low end torque. the vq needs some backpreasure for this specific reason.

I tried with that part unbolted and the engine became very weak bellow 4krpm compared to stock.

[AltyCoupe]

I just purchased the ypipe with the ebay special! i cant wait till it comes. ill be posting up pics and a vid of the sound. Im defff going to get some new tips. thanks so much for your help guys!!!! total cost me $489.....better than 805 for a nismo =/

[CoupeVQ35CVT]

thats for low end torque. the vq needs some backpreasure for this specific reason.

I tried with that part unbolted and the engine became very weak bellow 4krpm compared to stock.

I think it's been dispelled before, engines don't make torque with back pressure!!!!!! It's the scavenging effect of the smaller diameter piping that helps with low end torque!!!11111111one

I just purchased the ypipe with the ebay special! i cant wait till it comes. ill be posting up pics and a vid of the sound. Im defff going to get some new tips. thanks so much for your help guys!!!! total cost me $489.....better than 805 for a nismo =/

Yah not bad eh? I'd estimate another $200 for labor/ tip replacement etc and you should be set.

[AltyCoupe]

thats for low end torque. the vq needs some backpreasure for this specific reason.

I tried with that part unbolted and the engine became very weak bellow 4krpm compared to stock.

so if i were to use the custom exhaust, i would be okay right??

[rjdmmfl1]

so if i were to use the custom exhaust, i would be okay right??

you'll be fine... the dyno reads were not the best for the Y-pipe since the operator apparently went WOT at diffeent times in the stock pul vs both versions of the y-pipe pulls... according to the original dyno released, it seems as though there's really low torque below 3500 RPM, but then it jumps up and stays higher than stock throughout the rest of the power band...

but those of us that have the y-pipe have not noticed any dramatic decrease in low end stock... to be honest, you don't really feel a difference until you hit above 3000 rpm... afterwards, you should notice a gain in low and high end torque with the y-pipe , especially with the ebay combo...

[josiskrazy]

ugh i pretty PO'ed at fedex right now...Racingline sent the request for pick up on the 25th of last week...and then for a whole week fedex never updated the tracking page but had it scheduale as an April 2nd delivery...i just checked it a moment ago and they just picked it up and its now scheduale for an April 8th delivery!! i was really planning to get it on this weekend...looks like ill have to wait another week.