so ive searched everywhere but cant fine any pictures of custom secondary cats and a y pipe, i got headers installed a while back but been running all stock parts after just not what i want to do anymore. i will be going to a custom shop tomorrow and asking if they can fab it for me with hi flow cats. was wondering if anyone done it and how much did it run ya. thanks for the info and help!
Custom Exhaust
- Thread starter DC xterra
- Start date
Intender
Wheeling
- Location
- Lewisville NC
get rid of the y pipe completey and do two pipes back to the muffler. then get a 2 in 1 out muffler. I have been running that way for several years now and love it. Robcary also did his that way and I think he did a write up on it on here somewhere. his setup is very similar to mine, except mine is a 2000 and only has 2 cats so I didnt have to worry about that on mine.
Intender
Wheeling
- Location
- Lewisville NC
I hate to link to the other site, but here is the thread from over there. you can read through the whole thing if you want since it has some good info in it, but I linked to the page where rob put pictures of his exhaust. http://www.clubxterra.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67337&page=3
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
I'll have custom midpipes made here this summer. Stock fit aftermarket ones are garbage.
i had a stock fit aftermarket secondary cat passenger side burn thru it in a year it started to rattle like crazy that was $150 kinda pissed. intender i see what rob did there and he welded his pipes to the secondary cats. i like the idea of 2 in 1 out now i understand what you mean. my other question was if anyone has replaced the secondary cats with some custom piping + weld in hiflo cats. Prime is that what you have if so could i see a picture ?
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
I have aftermarket bolt ins at the moment. Same as you they were dead in 8 months. Both of them. Effing terrible.
As soon as I've got the scratch I'm going to this shop down the road from me to get custom pipes done.
As soon as I've got the scratch I'm going to this shop down the road from me to get custom pipes done.
02Xterra
Wheeling
- Location
- Central VA
Lots of exhaust discussion in this thread.. http://xterranation.org/showthread.php?755-1st-Gen.-Exhaust-options
This is what I had made to go with the DT headers
This is what I had made to go with the DT headers
Lots of exhaust discussion in this thread.. http://xterranation.org/showthread.php?755-1st-Gen.-Exhaust-options
This is what I had made to go with the DT headers
exactly that! how much did it run ya? only issue with me now is x in half taken apart cant bring it to a shop and i doubt it they would just fabricate bolt on for me
thecoalition
Call me Daddy
- Location
- Richmond, Va
Mine doesn't have high flow cats, but heres the 2in1 out with y pipe delete:
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
It's...... So.......... Clean..........
gen2? looks good man thats what i want!
found these but dont know if i want to pull the trigger yet:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161095984762?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - passanger side
http://www.ebay.com/itm/381128117480?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - driver
so the shop wont fab anything up if they dont have the truck i kinda get it but i brought them my old cats and asked if they could bend the new ones this way. no cant do
found these but dont know if i want to pull the trigger yet:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/161095984762?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - passanger side
http://www.ebay.com/itm/381128117480?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT - driver
so the shop wont fab anything up if they dont have the truck i kinda get it but i brought them my old cats and asked if they could bend the new ones this way. no cant do
Too bad you need cats. I put headers in so the primary ones are gone but I think the secondary ones in my 2001 can be replaced by the pipes that are in the same position on 2000 xterras. That will still give me the rear O2 bungs and then I could do custom after that.
thecoalition
Call me Daddy
- Location
- Richmond, Va
Yes Gen2
Prime - this was pre-skids, but yes, I keep a clean whip, unlike the rest of you filthy sobs!
Prime - this was pre-skids, but yes, I keep a clean whip, unlike the rest of you filthy sobs!
- Location
- Denver Adjacent
Cats are a federal emissions thing. You can get away with eliminating two of them about 98% of the time. The only way I'd get rid of all 4 is if your state has no inspections or smog testing.
robcarync
Sliders
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
I saw Intender posted the clubx link above...but here are the photos attached to this thread.
I got a Magnaflow straight through designed muffler. It has 2 inlets of 2" diameter and a single outlet of 2.5" diameter. Note that straight through mufflers are non-directional, so you could use it to do 2.5" into the muffler, and dual outlets.
I got 2" pipe custom bent from each catalytic converter to the inlets of the muffler. I used a single 2.5" diameter pipe as the outlet with a simple turn down under the bumper.
Muffler was $112 on Amazon. I paid $120 to have it welded up with custom pipe.
I did not do catalytic converters since I didn't do headers, so I still have the stock ones. If I went headers, I would get some hi flow cats installed before all the bends.
I got a Magnaflow straight through designed muffler. It has 2 inlets of 2" diameter and a single outlet of 2.5" diameter. Note that straight through mufflers are non-directional, so you could use it to do 2.5" into the muffler, and dual outlets.
I got 2" pipe custom bent from each catalytic converter to the inlets of the muffler. I used a single 2.5" diameter pipe as the outlet with a simple turn down under the bumper.
Muffler was $112 on Amazon. I paid $120 to have it welded up with custom pipe.
I did not do catalytic converters since I didn't do headers, so I still have the stock ones. If I went headers, I would get some hi flow cats installed before all the bends.
