Best y pipe???
Best y pipe??? I'm having a hard time searching from my phone but I've seen some people mention cutting out the y and welding in a better y. I just ordered a set of speed engineering 1 7/8 and im in need of a y pipe. Should I just order a speed engineering y pipe? Or is there a better flowing y pipe available? Or should I get the cheapest y pipe available and weld my own y in and if so what y do I get to weld in?
Get the SE Y-pipe with your header order. Cut off the reducer and the merge exit is now greater than 3"....that's what I did and have little to no rasp.
Last edited by ragtopz28; Sep 29, 2015 at 07:58 PM.
Speed engineering makes a decent looking y-pipe but as ^^ said it requires a bit of work.
You could get that, or buy yourself a flowmaster merge from summit and get a local muffler shop to use it to connect your headers to the rest of your exhaust.
You could get that, or buy yourself a flowmaster merge from summit and get a local muffler shop to use it to connect your headers to the rest of your exhaust.
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Drive it on headers to an exhaust shop and have them do true dual over axle.
The best Y is no Y.
I'm going Friday to have my SE Y converted to dual 2.5" over axle into bullets.
Regardless of the flow properties of a large setup Y, a 2 to 1 to 2 exhaust setup like a 4cyl every-mobile on a muscle car makes hotrod Jesus cry.
The best Y is no Y.
I'm going Friday to have my SE Y converted to dual 2.5" over axle into bullets.
Regardless of the flow properties of a large setup Y, a 2 to 1 to 2 exhaust setup like a 4cyl every-mobile on a muscle car makes hotrod Jesus cry.
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Drive it on headers to an exhaust shop and have them do true dual over axle.
The best Y is no Y.
I'm going Friday to have my SE Y converted to dual 2.5" over axle into bullets.
Regardless of the flow properties of a large setup Y, a 2 to 1 to 2 exhaust setup like a 4cyl every-mobile on a muscle car makes hotrod Jesus cry.
The best Y is no Y.
I'm going Friday to have my SE Y converted to dual 2.5" over axle into bullets.
Regardless of the flow properties of a large setup Y, a 2 to 1 to 2 exhaust setup like a 4cyl every-mobile on a muscle car makes hotrod Jesus cry.
Drive it on headers to an exhaust shop and have them do true dual over axle.
The best Y is no Y.
I'm going Friday to have my SE Y converted to dual 2.5" over axle into bullets.
Regardless of the flow properties of a large setup Y, a 2 to 1 to 2 exhaust setup like a 4cyl every-mobile on a muscle car makes hotrod Jesus cry.
The best Y is no Y.
I'm going Friday to have my SE Y converted to dual 2.5" over axle into bullets.
Regardless of the flow properties of a large setup Y, a 2 to 1 to 2 exhaust setup like a 4cyl every-mobile on a muscle car makes hotrod Jesus cry.
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Right now I'm leaning towards the s.e and cutting the smaller end off and adding a 3.5" cutout. That may not be true duals but shouldn't lose to much power to true duals.
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Whichever Y, make sure you add a blend merge in. I just drove home with that horrible resonance and it sounds so bad in the car. Windows down sounds great but with them up you are subject to both headers smashing their flows together right under your console. All the SE stuff is good stuff for fitment and metal quality, it just desperately needs a channeled merge at the Y for it not to sound hillbilly status.
If money is not an option, yet quality not sacrificed there are three choices.
1. Kooks, or American Racing
2. Buy 4 30" pieces of stainless and your own Y pipe with a FM, Magnaflow and have an exhaust fab it up for you.
If you are looking to come out cheap buy the SE. But I must warn you with a resonater only style muffler be prepared for an unwanted rasp or high pitch ping noise.
If you want to tone that rasp down, buy a magnaflow Y and have it welded in place of the SE merge.
1. Kooks, or American Racing
2. Buy 4 30" pieces of stainless and your own Y pipe with a FM, Magnaflow and have an exhaust fab it up for you.
If you are looking to come out cheap buy the SE. But I must warn you with a resonater only style muffler be prepared for an unwanted rasp or high pitch ping noise.
If you want to tone that rasp down, buy a magnaflow Y and have it welded in place of the SE merge.
I also don't want to argue....opinions/perceptions vary. I will say this, I've owned crappy merges (to remain nameless). My old y-set up I welded in a FM merge and it took away ~80% of the rasp (huge improvement). I was very impressed with the lack of rasp after I modified the SE merge-to cutout to muffler. Some will say any open exhaust will sound like a clapped out farm truck. I say the modded SE is the best sound so far. IMHO
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You can probably see slight HP increases with proper merges. Exhaust velocity is increased without the two sides slamming into each other and creating turbulence. Same theory and reason people want merge spikes in the collectors of their headers. It's an every little bit helps type thing though, not a major HP mod difference.