Some of you might remember, not too long ago i bought a complete exhaust system for my -VE- and i was talking about it on here, and someone told me that it wouldnt fit on my VE because they didnt make them for that engine, and that they only made them for the VG engine.....

any thoughts? i want to try and put it on but i dont want to go through all the work and have to put the old stuff back on.

What exactly is the problem with putting it on the VE? headers? y-pipe? What has the wrong bends and what has the right bends?

 

I think the headers angle at the connection to the y pipe is different from ve to vg.....

 

Uhhh, I'm pretty sure exhaust ports have different shapes between the VG and VE, which may make the header fitment a little off.

 

... i'm pretty ignorant at this, but IIRC warpspeed makes 2 flavors of 3rd gen Y-pipes, one for VG and one for VE due to fitment issues. So to put it in one sentence, it simply is different between the two.

 

Yeah,i forgot that part...

The vg port is round and the ve is oval...

 

but the some guys here said the pace setter headers weren't any good anyway.. so i don't know why you would want them. From the pictures I saw on e-bay the exaust runners aren't equal length... so i don't they're any good

 

they dont look the same length, and theyre not, because theyre designed to send flow at the perfect time to allow the exhaust gases to enter the reducer at seperate times, to allow all the gases to flow freely, without figting for access to the downpipe.

 

That would be necessary if all exhaust ports opened at the same time.. but they don't, they open in sequence, so equal length pipes are necessary to ensure you don't have any collisions of pressure waves at the reducer, causing weird backpressure problems.

 

I am not sure what you mean by "exhaust"...do you mean headers, y-pipe, catback, or some combination?

As far as VG vs. VE goes the STOCK Y-pipe is the same. The Cattman Y-pipe is the same. Warpspeed however has improved the design by making 2 different ones.

 

what he said..

 

the pace setter exhaust sells with headers and y-pipe made for those headers. no cat, and no catback in the package but they also manufacture a catback for sale separately in a different package.

i read in the warpspeed web site something that says "products from their competitors were having fitment issues, because there IS a difference (btwn VG and VE)"

so even if cattman makes a single Y for both, I wouldn't trust it to bolt on with minimal effort.

 

Well, as previous owner of VG and a current VE owner,and a Cattman Y-pipe owner, I'll say that you're right....on the VG the pipe rubs the sway bar, and on the VE, it hangs lows and hit the ground all the time

 

as was stated they have different exhaust ports so the headers will not work. You can use the same cat back system though.

 

everything up to the y pipe should be the same (from muffler up to cat converter)

engine is a different size; headers fit at different lengths/angles.

my monza (the catback made by pacesetter) sounds awesome, but didnt do **** for me performancewise.

i dont know if it was the y-pipe or the headers (they came together-made by pacesetter), but i got a hell of a torque gain from them...i have heard a lot of complaints about them other than my experience, though.

better off just getting the warpspeed y-pipe made for the VE because feedback is consistent with them; im having all sorts of cooling issues because my WHOLE exhaust system is 3"; it should bolt up to the stock headers...but

from there...the issue is whether the bolts at the flanges are seized up...especially on the rear header. i cut the yipe from the headers with a little dremel because mine were.

messing with the headers became a real headache...i REALLY dont recommend it.

$1,000 later, my car sounds good and looks custom, but i still cant beat a grand prix gt...hahaha.

i went to see "hostel" tonight and afterwards, i saw a 92-94 se maxi in the parking lot in as good shape as my gxe...i was half-tempted to leave a post-it on their windshield asking them how much theyd sell it to me for!

 

btw, my friend got a digital camera, so were going to start filming our races (us losing to srt-4s and wrx turbos). ttyl. hope the above effort was helpful.

 

In the General Maxima forum, there is a "weekend battles" section. I suggest you use it for your videos, or you could face some down time. just a heads up.

 

yea, i saw that; wish i had my race with the gtp on there...

 

good point, i thought about that after i sent the post...my apologies!

I'm speaking of a complete exhaust system....from headers to muffler.

yeah, i had a grand prix gt pull up beside me the other day, on one of my bad days (ill explain "bad days" in a post in a short while....but yeah, i lost my *** off to him, he had a jet ECU and some other bolt ones...sounded like a supercharger, but maybe thats my pride hearing things

 

Overall, what i'm getting at, is that im trying to basically rebuild this car from the ground up, slowly, and i want all the best parts i can get. they need to make more stuff for our 3rd gens! enough people want the products, we just have to get group deals going with these companies! I have many contacts out there, and a number of sponsors (revpm. aka. bodykits.com.......fidanza....r-blox sound control....kyowa racing.....and a few others) and theres many products for other cars, but hardly for our max.

 

ok, i bought pacesetter headers for a VG to put on my VG and they still didn't fit properly, at all!