Where to buy Test pipe materials

[JayB12]

I'm looking to make a test pipe. I need a recommendation on where to buy the materials for the best price. I need two flanges and some pipe. Also is there a recommended thickness? (I found some that's 1/16" is that too thin?) My current hi-flow cat is 2.75 inner diameter and 29.5in long flange to flange.

Also if anyone has the materials and can make it, send me a PM.

 

[bertrenolds]

Just get one off ebay, they are so damn cheap that making one is almost a waste of time. The megan racing ones are nice, that's what I got. otherwise there is the POS that the flanges are crooked, I have one in my garage I would give you 89-94 Eclipse Talon Exhaust GST 1G 3" Test Pipe | eBay , I believe it will work for a 2g, I think they are pretty much the same, I know the megan testpipe is the same for a 1g and 2g.

 

[JayB12]

Do you know the length of the two? Everything I look at seems to come up short. I don't have a problem cutting and modifying one if it's a decent price.

 

[GoCanes777]

Maybe pick what ever you need up from a local exhuast shop and do it yourself??? That way you should be able to get any size you want

 

[bertrenolds]

Contact megan and ask them, I am pretty sure they have the dimensions somewhere. What down pipe and cat back do you have? And now that I think about it I have a FWD and 1 and 2gs are the same, for an awd 1 and 2g cats are completely different and you need to make sure you get a 2g test pipe from megan. For me it was a $100 well wasted and the megan pipe muffles your exhaust a little so it's not so damn rappy and loud and it looks like a cat.

It's funny, I guess they don't make a 3" megan test pipe for a 2g. What I did find was a down pipe that eliminates the cat for cheap. But like I said it get rappy and annoying and backfires all the time if you just put a straight through testpipe, You will probably get pulled over eventually.

I would say your best option would be to smash out the insides of your cat and call it good. I know it's a waste of money but hell it's your easiest option.

 

[JayB12]

I just wanted to make my own because I want to keep my cat for inspection ect. I have an RRE downpipe 2.25-to-3" a 3" RRE cat and an apexi 3" catback. It's so quiet that you wouldn't even know it had an exhaust. I just want to change it up for a little. I don't know of any exhaust shops around so I was browsing eBay for cheap piping and flanges. I keep finding materials at $100-150+ and that isn't what I'm looking to spend.

 

[AngelOfPassion]

Road race engineering sells the test pipe for 60 bucks... and they make it specifically for an Apexi cat back. That's only 20 bucks more than most ebay ones and you don't have to go through the trouble of making it work... just my .02

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[stacked1G]

why not go to your local exhaust shop and see if they got some scrap pipe out back...or just buy a 29.5" straight pipe from jcwhitney and two flanges off RRE? either that im sure your local exhaust shop could make you one up for around 50$ if you cannot weld it yourself. just tell them its for a track car, and bolt it up yourself at home.