Hey, I did a search but didn't find exactly what I was looking for.

I am considering buying a Y pipe from Budget. If I take it to a local exhaust shop, will pretty much any of them install it for me? About how much do you think I will be looking at for installation cost?

For people that have the Budget pipe, how do you like it? From the search I did, it sounds like nobody has the "bees in a can" sound or anything bad like that...

 

i dont have one, but am getting one, but lots of people complain about the bees in the can, but not everyone gets it and its said that it goes away after a while and header wrap can take car of the problem, but i would advise you to get one, they are nice. as for price im not sure, but u should put it in your self... it is not hard and can save some cash

 

Price will run you about 50 to 100 bucks for install.

SuDZ

 

I don't have one but also planning to get one. the price can't be beat. as far as the performance gain, check out the dyno at www.motorvate.ca

 

try meinekee off the books

 

That is CLASSIC. I LOVE cash transactions...

I would say try some backwoods shop, offer $50 cash, and just walk away if they say "no." SOMEONE will do it for $50, Cash. I paid some guy $20 to help me, using HIS shop and air tools, to do a cat and muffler setup on my Jeep. I needed an air hammer, and he had one. $20 and 1 hour and i was out the door.

 

I dont have any bees in the can sound. In fact, I dont even know what that sounds like.

 

love my budget y pipe, installation was a breeze, and so far everyone has the same reaction, it fits like a glove.

 

man, i cant wait for mine to get here, im so excited!!

 

I want to get a y-pipe bud I don't know which one is better: Budget or Warpspeed tig 304.

 

if you have the extra cash, id go with the warpspeed...i too was gonna go with budget, but i just started hearing awful things about em, so i got a warspeed as mandrel bent

 

I paid 60 bucks at some local shop. The exhaust tone is throaty as I still have stock res, b, muffler. I got the mandrel bent Budget Y, nothing but good things...

 

what bad things have u heard about budget, so far they seem to be on top from what ive seen. more cases were coming from bees in can from warpspeed then budget

 

I got budget because it was cheaper. I think budget and warpspeed is about the same. But for you, I'd say go with warpspeed becaus we KNOW the flex sections used by warpseeds will not have any problems.

there are no long term data on the budget flex sections yet. I have a budget btw.

 

My mandrel Budget made annoying noises from the flex section. I replaced a lined flex section from Warpspeed and the y-pipe is now as quiet as stock. It cost me a total of $80US to buy the new flex section and installed on my y-pipe. I've read other instances of other Budget mandrel pipe owners who have the same noise issues and some do not so its a hit-or-miss situation. If I had to do it again I would go directly to Warpspeed for their pipes.
What key words did you use in the search engine? Not trying to attack you or anything, but I don't see how you can miss any of the noise related issues.

I used these two words : budget noise - and found this:

http://forums.maxima.org/search.php?...der=descending

 

Sorry... I searched for Y Pipe and found a bunch of threads, but a lot of them are saying that people like their budget pipes and don't get any bad sounds. Thanks for the info.