cjridert1
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jul 4, 2007
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Akron,
Ohio
I was going back and forth about just doing a side exit exhaust and decided to put in some extra work and do a full turboback. I build this over the past few days and thought Id post some information on it. I pieced this together as cheap as I could and think its a great option for DIY dsmers.
SS piping was expensive to buy individual curves/straight sections, so I got a diesel downpipe from here that looked about right and cut/angled it a few times. Fits better than my 3" in the oilpan/Tcase channel. This was $106 shipped
I bought 16ga aluminum tubing from GlobalTech, total ended up being around $150 or something for 2 7" straights, 1 30°, and 3 90° angles (2 6"CTR and 1 10" CTR). I only ended up needing 1x 7', 1 90° 6"CTR and 1 30°. So I have a lot extra for other projects like a cold air intake and whatnot.
I wanted to muffler the thing to make it a little more reasonable on the street, so I got a diesel muffler off ebay for $70 shipped.
I put a flex section in for installation forgiveness and maybe some longevity. $35 shipped.
I needed to go from SS to aluminum back to SS for the muffler, so needed some V bands. I ended up V banding the flex section too because I was having a tough time getting the DP in and out of the car for fitment all as one piece.
3 x $28 (Steel) and 1 x $60 (aluminum).
So the thing ended up costing me $520 after and O2 bung and some fill rod with a bunch of extra aluminum to play with. Id think it would be easily less than $475 with ordering the right amount of aluminum, I just didnt want to end up short handed.
Heres some pics. Car is still a work in progress, so no idle/rev soundclips. Also didnt weigh it, but probably 1/2 of my megan 3" SS previous.
SS piping was expensive to buy individual curves/straight sections, so I got a diesel downpipe from here that looked about right and cut/angled it a few times. Fits better than my 3" in the oilpan/Tcase channel. This was $106 shipped
I bought 16ga aluminum tubing from GlobalTech, total ended up being around $150 or something for 2 7" straights, 1 30°, and 3 90° angles (2 6"CTR and 1 10" CTR). I only ended up needing 1x 7', 1 90° 6"CTR and 1 30°. So I have a lot extra for other projects like a cold air intake and whatnot.
I wanted to muffler the thing to make it a little more reasonable on the street, so I got a diesel muffler off ebay for $70 shipped.
I put a flex section in for installation forgiveness and maybe some longevity. $35 shipped.
I needed to go from SS to aluminum back to SS for the muffler, so needed some V bands. I ended up V banding the flex section too because I was having a tough time getting the DP in and out of the car for fitment all as one piece.
3 x $28 (Steel) and 1 x $60 (aluminum).
So the thing ended up costing me $520 after and O2 bung and some fill rod with a bunch of extra aluminum to play with. Id think it would be easily less than $475 with ordering the right amount of aluminum, I just didnt want to end up short handed.
Heres some pics. Car is still a work in progress, so no idle/rev soundclips. Also didnt weigh it, but probably 1/2 of my megan 3" SS previous.
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