I was looking for some cattman headers for my 4th gen maxima. And i came across these on www.sportcompactonly.com/part_p-311.htm. They say they fit the 2002-2003 maxima. The Part Number is : HDR-G5A . And they a $500.00 bucks. I was wondering if these would fit the 95-99 maxima. Hows the fitment on the cattman, r they better than OBX? thanks.

 

Thats pretty damn cheap for Cattmans. Any Cattman experts wanna chime in? Are these legit? Or knockoffs??? Im curious...

 

Finish looks WAAYYY too shiny and those gaskets look much crappier than what Brian supplies with the real thing. I could be wrong though, that pic is of poor quality.

 

I do believe they will fit, but those look like chrome not the stainless that cattman uses

 

And I do not like that merge at all, looks ugglyyy.

Also the headers shown will NOT just intall and work w/ an 02-03.... EGR port manggggg!

Looks more like it'll work for 95-00 folks.

 

if i had the money i would order them without thinking twice......i wouldnt have even posted..

 

I was doing some more research today and i found these cattman headers on the same site, but they are for the 95-01 maxima. www.sportcompactonly.com/part_p-8963.htm . But they are 870.00 bucks. Should i get the ones that fit the 02-03 maxima because they are 370.00 buck cheaper. Any ideas what i should do? And i call them up, the headers are T-304 stainless steel not CHROME!!

 

they both gonna bolt up the same...just call them

 

Its just a really old pic of Cattman headers.

Good luck getting them for $500. I bet they are not in stock.

 

first of all, just from the pics they are a cattman knock off, cattman does not chrome/super shine polish their stuff

these http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...brand-new.html are the latest cattmans. pretty sure the gen 3's came with the heat coating.

second, the pics for 95-01 are the same as 02-03 also 95-01 headers wouldn't be the same since the vq30de-k in 01 had no egr (just cover it up i guess). 02-03 vq35de had no egr as well (egr is that bung looking thing on the middle pipe of the header to the right of the pic).

third: why the **** is there $370 difference between the two? they would be nearly identical for fitment -if these fit properly at all

thanks for sharing this.... sorta interested but $500 its still on the pricier side. obx went for about $400 shipped... you could get altima 3.5 headers for $250-300 shipped, sell your current aftermarket y pipe and reuse the flanges and other bits from the alti y, take them to an exhaust shop and have them make an equal y. thats like $500 all in for the alti headers and no grinding of your car's parts like obx.

i'm gonna email them to see whats up and ask about fitment. i wonder if they even test putting these on... i know for sure obx didn't try with the 95-01 design (long headers, unequal y), people hated it.

 

people they are not chrome!!! Its say on the website they are T-304 stainless steel. I even called them up to confirm that they are stainless steel and they are!!!!

 

wow ok great... its still polished, have you even taken a look at my link to see how BRAND NEW gen 3 Cattmans actually look like? take a look at the y section, nothing like the one in the picture from the website. on top of that the website one is a 4 piece and cattman is 3. i don't care if its a knock off but don't advertise wrong ****. all i care about is fitment and price .

did you ask about fitment, like actually having them fit on a 4th/5th/5.5 gen maxima? did you ask about the almost $400 difference for a nearly identical product? fyi the obx v1 headers say they fit but don't really

oh and my email just got rejected/no reply :? address was correct

 

you're a big boy, if you don't believe me call them yourself.

 

report back when someone has received an email response. Maybe they bought overstock Cattman headers who knows? or bought the Cattman name altogether?

 

Just because they say there t-304 stainless doesn't mean they are, they prolly just read the ad. Order them an report back. When you called, did you ask if they were in stock? Cattman headers in the past were a group buy thing, meaning if you had 10 or more then he would make them. I doubt these are actually in stock being that cattman sold his company last year

 

k i believe you they said its not chrome/polished...

i emailed but it got bounced back cause the email doesn't work . i'm gonna give them a call tomorrow.

 

He hasn't sold it, spoke to him to get a group deal for SCM a while back, he just is done making maxima parts after his failure he had with the 3" cat-backs for the 4th gens and some 5th gens.

 

Wrong.

 

Cattman... Rare indeed & will only be found if someone is selling used at this point.

Still have mines from group deal to install once done w/ engine swap.

 

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ok i called... i had to call 3 times cause no one answered :/ but when i got through the last time i was put through to andysautosport LOL i asked who i called and he's like andy's bought out sport compact only and sport compact only is poorly updated. pretty much told me to go to andy's auto sport instead because they have much more up to date product info

so i asked about the headers and told him what cattman was (sold the company, hasn't produced headers for 2-3 years) and he's like "we don't carry them in stock, we receive a payment and then we try to ship and if the product is no longer produced we refund your money back" i also asked him about this http://www.sportcompactonly.com/Down...arts_c-117.htm which i assumed was stillens old equal y pipe and he said he can't find it in stock anywhere. so basically this is a wild goose chase on a website that doesn't update their ****... OP if you still disagree for some retarded reason, order a set of them and report back

 

LOL

i think he closed up shop because there wasn't enough people buying cattman period. he 'fed' the maxima community full with great parts and then when everyone got what they needed there was no one left to buy stuff till a fresher generation of maxima owners came to this site... now we're all left scrambling for obx v2 (non existent atm) and/or a used set of cattmans (hard to find/expensive)

if obx doesn't make v2's by christmas i will be going schmellyfart's way: alti headers w/ custom equal y

 

sorry about that carsnwomen91. I guess you are right. Do you know anyone or anywhere where i can get cattman headers? Thanks for the clear-up.

 

CATTMAN IS STILL IN BUSINESS.....don't believe this Hype!!!!!

 

Then where can you find cattman headers for our 4th gen maxima?

 

From cattman, of course.

 

Call cattman and ask about ordering a set of headers.

 

He will only do these for a GD. As I stated earlier, he hasn't sold his company, but he told me he would make more maxima stuff (H/Y) and only 2.5" cat backs for the 4th gen. Don't believe me, give him a call, and the pricing on his website is incorrect, as stated by Brian.

 

His should be the. Lol

 

Only partially, he admitted that 4g 3" cat back wasn't R&D as much, which is why most people have the banging issue at idle, even some 5gs have that issue.

I should have said, he isn't making the 3" cat back for the 4g anymore.

 

So what's a good set of headers that are currently being made and sold for a 2003 SE 3.5 that you don't have to do a bunch of banging and cutting and crap.

 

Anyone have cattman headers + y-pipe combo for sale? thanks

 

its not much room period...even some exhuast shops i went to said the same thing...

 

It wasn't R&D'd as much because half of the work was already done via the 5th gens 3".

And no banging issues here, only tip placement on my car, which is a well documented "problem" if one would say that it's even a "problem" to begin with.

And I road coursed the red car multiple times, I can gaurantee I pull more lateral G forces than 95% of 4th gen owners on this forum.

 

 

Pretty much yeah, I can name about 10 guys who probably corner harder than I do w/ the beam axle, but that's only ten compared to what? a thousand?

 

This is true. Most on here bounce through the corners on bump stops lol

Real t-304 is almost a brownish color. This is a picture of my exhaust I have done in all 304:

 

pics or it didnt happen

 

The people over here that have the 3" cattmans have a banging issue, and they have switched between nismo exhaust hangers and the OEM ones and still no solution.

Aackshun, I guess you were a lucky one, but he should have seen of there would have been a banging issue. One can't assume since it worked for this gen it will work for the other.

 

cattman is still in business!! if you are looking for 4th gen headers and equal length y pipe call and put your name on the list. I put mine on 3 days ago. He didn't say how many more people he needed but you could be the magic 10!!