Ok, after reading so many recent threads about Bees in the Can I'd thought it would be good to get a count of how many orgers bought a particular brand and the number of BITC incidents.

 

Don't they all develope the BITC eventually due to the flex going bad throughout the years of useage?

 

They all really make the noise, its not that bad tho, i think its just the flex section regardless of how old or new it is. It only seams to give off that sound when i rev, not when i drive....

 

If that is a common occurance, it would be interesting to all of us in which year of ownership it happens.

 

I got 3 in wsp with no Bees in the cans noise, u have to get a really good resonated b pipe in my opinion.

 

when i took off the stock y-pipe, i saw that it had a huge hole in the flex section. Didn't have any BITC sound with that.....

 

That's probably because the stock y is restrictive. Aftermarket is a lot less restrictive.

 

you didnt add the ypipe from custom maxima. i just bought one and will be installing it tomarrow, pritty much garaunteed to have NO bee's But if there is, you still cant return it

basically to get rid of this effect you want to have a quality flex grid section... alot of these pipes have this but they are cheap and crappy, plus they might not use good enough fabrication or bending, also some pipes use cheap materials (ie cheaper metals ie like in canada when compaired to usa metals).
some may be more ristrictive some to easy flowing.

so many problems that might be the case.

 

if there was a company that would specialize in just some how making a BITC-proof flex section that could just be welded on between the piping and a bracket on the cat side, they would be ballin! that way, people wouldn't have to worry about the pipe they buy or it goin bad, cuz hopefully they could just get a cheap replacement flex section.

 

If there's a way to replace the flex section with a more sturdy construction, that's the real solution. The flex has to be there for obvious reasons, just have to be more sturdier than its current construction. WSP has a ball-joint type flex, maybe some of you guys with this kind of y-pipe can chime in.

 

couldnt u just weld the bracket to the y-pipe? thats what my mechanic did from the looks of it...

 

what bracket? you mean the flange?

 

stainless steel Budget y-pipe, 13 months old, no BITC, no fitment problem, perfect in my view.

 

i got warpspeed y pipe... no bees in the can but still loud as a ****. 2 tickets $54 each for "noisy muffler"

 

Do you have aftermarket exhaust?

y-pipes only get loud when you really get on it, right?

 

i have had my WS for 2 years and never heard BITC..

 

I don't mean to hijack the thread,but i got a quick question.
I'm gonna check out a used cattman y-pipe soon. is there some kind of logo etched on it that says cattman? In other words how can i make sure it is a genuine cattman and not something else?

Keep in mind this one is a couple years old maybe theyre different from the new ones.

 

correctomingo

 

you should ask www.cattman.com and see if they can answer your question, it may be faster since i know you have been wondering.


i have just got my y pipe from custom maxima (Custom enterprise (CE)) and im not sure but i think it has bee's in the can on it.

its not annoying to me tho it only has it from 2-3000 rpms when accelerating for a secound or two.
it sounds more like sparks from a lighting device, like on your electric starter on a GRILL, i thought the O2 sensor was dragging on the ground basically when i accelerated.

not so bad since its only slight for a moment... honestly i only hear it when the windows are open. when they are closed i dont hear it, tho it is alot deeper sound, actually sounds like i have no cat on the car. so its deep, but thats also because i have a loud exust too, i have the stillen mufler and thats loud to begin with, but i can hear the differnce the y-pipe makes, i dont mind it myself, and when i have the radio on its not a bother at all, even at lower volumes.