My new homemade exhaust....many **PICS**
 

Well for the most part I just finished my new exhaust. Yes I know there are still coat hangers in the pic but I used them when mocking everything up. I will weld in the brackets tomorrow.

Everything is 2.5" except for the bend going over the rear crossmember which is 3"

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Anyways I finished my downpipe and installed a flex tube on the end of it.


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This is the the bung for my wideband 02 sensor that I had to weld in.

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What I thought of the stock exhaust!


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Ahh the new flowmaster 50 series muffler

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the model number and specs

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The exhaust mouted into position

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I know I need to go buy some exhaust clamps.... i will do so tomorrow

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The muffler is mounted in the same position as one of the stock ones. I was going to put it directly under the spare tire but thought this would be more appropriate due to the heat shields.

I'll order some more mandrel bends so I can finish it to the tail pipes later.

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I'd go for a test run but my driveway is like a mud trucks wet dream. I'm lucky i even got the sunfire in there yesterday. The muffler is louder than I thought it would be. It sounds almost exactly like the PT cruiser flowmaster has vids/wavs of on their website. I like it so far.....cant wait to go for a spin and see how much that helped out the turbo!!!!


I love the sound so far but its louder than I want.... I dont need to be harassed for my exhaust.

Re:My new homemade exhaust....many **PICS**
 

that flange to the turbo looks warped to ----, is it just the picture? the rest look good, you should just leave the coat hangers and string, then people will know you're a real member of hmt.

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nice how long did that take/how much did it cost ya? I bet thatd be a considerable gain vs the stock exaust

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Looks good. Where did you get that Flex section? I need one for the downpipe I still have to make.

I'm running a Flowmaster AM perf axleback which is just a 50 series muffler setup to fit a CRX. It's much louder now that I went to 2.5" pipe and gutted my cat. I'm hoping once I'm pushing boost through that it'll mellow out until I really get on it. Then I don't care how loud it is..

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That's what I was thinking. It might just be the picture. Nice work. :)
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Re:My new homemade exhaust....many **PICS**
 

Your right that flange is fucked up but thats ok because its only used to bolt the downpipe to the flange on the turbo...there is an exhaust donut inbetween.

I actually left the coat hangers and just tidied them up a bit. I beleive the whole setup with the muffler was about $160 maybe at most and took about a whole day to finish. The flex tubing can be found on ebay... This is the same seller and size that i purchased http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2464512291

I put that flex tubing where the stock converter went so I might be able to fool some people if they ask if i have one for legal reasons.

I'm sure it will make a big difference since before I had a cat converter, two mufflers and a resonator of some sort. The smallest point before the cat converter which my downpipe had originally gone into was 1 7/8" so I'm sure this will help out a ton.

I took some pics of my yard, I'll make a new post later and show you why i cant go for a test ride right now.

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looks like you got some good mud before the install ;) Why 3" only over the rear cross crossmember?
steve

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that is gonna make a HUGE diffrence!

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I ran out of 2.5" mandrels but i had some that were 3". I had planned on originally going 3" instead but figured it was a waste. Anyways i had to step it up to the muffler anyways because it had a 3" inlet.

Oh and yes it seems to have made a big difference...ass dyno results were hard to calculate because I havent driven the car in a long while.

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this is the reason i love HMT
everyone here are always down for DIY projects and that's how i like to do things
---- labor fees
woo hooooooooo ;D :D ;D