I've been interested in designing a true dual exhaust for my max and have searched and saw a few people that wanted to do it, or where going to, but no one really has a completed thread on it. so i was wondering if anyone has actually accomplished a true dual exhaust and how they did it. I've seen a couple of ideas on how to do it on here, but I don't really want to crush the spare tire spot and rather have 2 mufflers then a dual in, dual out muffler. I might be out of luck on this one but just throwing it out there to see what other people have done.

 

what i drew up was 2 different ways to do it when i was considering it for my max.

removal of y-pipe and do an equal length pipe down to an X pipe where the 2 parking brakes separate and just dump it out the sides with 2 resonators stashed somewhere.

or keep the y-pipe and have a 20+in resonator right after the caddi converter and either run it out the sides again or smash in the spare tire well and run em straight back, but i figured that would be risky with a drop.

are cars ride high but there is not much room without using a hammer to get an exhaust with a real muffler in there, insane resonators was the only way i saw.

i saw a pretty well tuned grand am the other day at school, one of the best modded Pontiacs ive seen that ran true duels down to the tailend where it had a duel in/out muffler and the pipes came out of the reverse light spots. very sporty.

waiting for mofp to get in here, he had some good ideas.

 

meximax has done it

 

True trio > true dual
There is a lot of fab work involved. It's really not worth the time, effort, and money to do it. If you really want custom exhaust work, try doing a 3" instead.

 

Not necessary ... Spend your money elsewhere.

 

Get a decent single exhaust... then buy a second tip. Just slice a semi-circle out of the left side of the bumper, and then mount the other tip there so it looks like dual exhaust.

 

i hope that was a joke.

 

Did you ever get this done?

It is true that doing a true dual exhaust on Maxima does entail lots of fabbing. I was very pleased with the end results. Lots of free flow, and a VQ35 sound like no other

 

 

pics of the dual exhaust??

 

^^^+1

i remember years back i saw a 4th gen with what looked like factory dual exhaust. i didnt really pay much attention on how it was set up since at the time maximas didnt catch my eye...

 

I'd like to see it....I'm curious of how one will move all the evap equipment to install the left side muffler and associating tubing.......

 

ive seen it done but i personally dont like how it looks on a max especially a 4th gen

 

THREAD JACK: meximax, ive never seen you. Your car puts down some massive power. I bet its close to 500 crank

 

I used to have some pics posted here, but for some reason imageshack gave me the finger. Anyway, I have uploaded a few old pictures.

The setup consists of modified headers, 3" collectors, 2.5" TRUE dual, with a x-pipe, and magnaflow resonators. I did modify the evap system brackets and moved everything closer towards the sheet metal. Additionally, I did bang a bit of the spare tire to make room for the resonators. Lastly, I added to heating barrier to couple of areas (around evap, fuel lines, fuel tank, etc.)

Here are the images,and sorry about my $hitty photoshop skills on that last pix

 

Wow, looks pretty nice.....

 

got any video or sound clips of that? Also how loud is it and does it drone?

 

x2 and a rear pic of what it looks like exiting

 

Hes been around for a bit, and hes currently making the most power with a SC setup.

 

im getting ready to do a true dual setup, no X/H pipes, im going to have the exhaust pipes coming out from under the rear doors, i have always been curious about it and i want to see what its going to sound like, any comments on this kind of setup?

 

what is a 97-99 front end conversion? I have a 96 and was wondering what it is/ how it improves?

 

97-99 has a (in most peoples' opinion) a better looking front bumper and grille

 

what exactly is the purpose of the X/H pipe anyways? emissions such as the 02 sensor or cat?

 

if i remember correctly it balances the air exiting...something of teh sort

 

it's for performance.

IIRC, the X-pipe does something where the exhaust flow from the cylinders whose exhaust valves just opened help 'suck' the exhaust out of the cylinders whose exhaust valves are about to open by creating a vacuum in the opposite header as they go through the x-pipe.

The H-pipe, i'm not really sure about. I think an x-pipe would do a better job scavenging exhaust than a H-pipe.

 

nice!!!!!!!!!do you have any pics from the rear and if you do can you post....thanks

 

Hmmm, this thread has got me thinking. Here's a question: With a dual exhaust with x pipe, what gains and disadvantages (if any) are we looking at??

I did read that its for performance, will the car accelerate better and will it affect fuel economy?

 

I'll be running a 3 inch for my max this year. I'm sure the long tube headers with a true dual exhaust would sound pretty good.

 

I does drone a bit, but it iss easily tolerable. It WAY louder outside the vehicle than it is inside.

I have this 3 year old blurry picture on hand....lol.





You can get another glimpse of what it sounds/looks from a couple of videos that I have from dyno runs and such. If you want and inside/outside video/audio, go to streetfire and search for "meximax". There is video there, but dont' wanna post a link, I don't want to get banned

Dyno vids for additional sound:



Another video of a hwy run, but recorded with a digital camera (which means $hitty audio).





Enjoy.


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O...M....fawkin....G!!!!!!

 

all i heard was 422hp...om nom nom nom

 

probably the easiest way is to run them out near the front rather than the entire length of the car?

 

Yeah, but meximax got the dual exhaust in the rear. THat proves it can be done.

 

That is a crazy setup

 

that car is truly awesome and i really wish my motor hadnt blown up this week :'(