emax02

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Woo Hoo! It's finaly on there! It took me a total of 11-12 hours but at the moment I feel like it was well worth it. I counted 62 cuts on my hands and arms but they will heal


Now for the good stuff, the power and noise increase! My car sounds mean now, like it has a big V8 under the hood. I do have some drone but it's not bad, best of all there is no beas in the can noise. Now for the power, muhahaha. The car feels noticably quicker, it feels like the same power increase I got from putting a Y-pipe on my 95 and 98. Now when I go to shift to second at redline it no longer does a big peel out, it now rips the tires to shreads, lol! 3rd gear lets off a noticably louder chirp which last about twice as long. The whole power band feels better.

I will try hard to get pics up tonight for you guys to see.

Craig Mack

Dude, Ethan....how do you control that beast!? The torque steer must be unbelievable..my '95 has tons of torque steer I can only cringe when I think of your car. Do share your secret

bill99gxe

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Kev and his 3hp



Butt-dyno is what matters!!!!!!





Ubiquitous question: When's the new dyno happening?

SkylineGTR

Ethan, how come you didnt just convert the front precat to fedspec too? wouldnt that have been just a little more work, and maybe even more gains?

emax02

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Good question, I am going to probably try to get it done on Monday. I also added a UDP pulley since my last dyno so the power gains will not be 100% accurate.


Craig Mack, I just don't floor the car in first gear unless I am going fairly straight. 2nd gear I can go WOT threw corners but I do have to be carefull because my wheel does pull pretty hard to the side. I actualy enjoy my TQ steer a little

emax02

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From what I have seen it does not really help the car much. If I was to do that I would also have to relocate two o2 sensors and thats just another PITA. Doing that would also have made this a 3 day project and I can't usualy take that much time off.

NuJerseyDrive

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You have some serious skillz

Time to hit the track!

Blu

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dyno that beast asap we all know the UDP only adds about 2-3 whp via others dynos that are corrected. SR20DEN I think gained between 2-3 whp from his UDP.

gtr_rider

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E, and his conversions

Good work

deezo

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Do you want to mod my car????

Knightmare69

Sorry for the ignorrant question, but what's a y-pipe?

Newman

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Ethan, what was the total cost for the fed spec headers and y pipe and whatever else you needed?

just your first post has me as excited a little school girl. i may need to follow in your footsteps.

Newman

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i think us maxima guys are the only ones who call it a y-pipe. i think most people call it a down pipe or i think even a racing pipe.

perfectmax

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I have to hit up the gym everynight just to contain the torque steer in my 97 max.

Knightmare69

I thought that downpipes were only for turbo applications? Is this the pipe that connects from your headers to the Cats?

SuDZ

See if this helps

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....5&pagenumber=1

SuDZ

BioMaxDDS

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SR20DEN

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Yup, time for a dyno test or 3. You used the '00 fed spec headers too right??? And is everything 2.5" ?

Y2KevSE

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OK... OK... I was probably wrong about 3 hp.

I give you the benefit of the doubt and say 4 hp.








Congrats!

Lordrandall

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1. Remove UDP
2. Dyno
3. Replace UDP



Sweet dude! Congratulations.

sleepermax

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CONGRATS E-MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now all you need is a b-pipe and you're set! (don't worry about messing with the front manifold - it won't help at all.)

BigDogJonx

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Emax,

Remember when we talked about the headers? How hard was it to remove the rear manifold? I was told you had to lift the engine a bit to get it out. How did you get it out?

If it was easy, Im soo buying headers for my maxima in 5mins.

Dixit

ru4real

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It's also called a Y-pipe for longitudinal V8's, like the LS1's and V8 Cougars/Thunderbirds from the 80's.

Anachronism

You have a 2k1, right? I thought it was proven that headers didn't do anything for us. If you do get headers I hope you can do before and after dynos.

emax02

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The stillen Y-pipe was $340 from avalonracxing.net , the rear manifold was $45 shipped. You also need a new manifold gasket, it cost me like 10 bucks. I also blew money on otehr things that you don't need.

SR20DEN, I used a 2000 fed spec header. Everything but the header is 2.5 inches in diameter.

sleepermax, I have a greddy exhaust which has a 2.5 inch mandrel bent B-pipe.

BigDogJonx, , I beleive I made it clear that this was extremly diffucult to do. I replied to you about the engine tilting in my other thread too.


I drove about 50 miles and every thing is working perfectly fine, no check engine lights or anything!

Newman

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not bad at all! i really might to this very soon. but i think ill wait for your dyno.

dwapenyi

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A Y pipe is an exhaust pipe. It comes off of your exhaust manifold and goes down to your cat converter. The reason it's a Y is because of the V6 engine in the Maxima,or any V engine, therefore there are 2 exhaust manifolds, one on each cylinder bank. Each pipe of the Y comes down and connects just before the cat converter. Hence the name Y pipe,also sometimes called downpipe, or F pipe.

DW

emax02

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I forgot to metion the welding work on the EGR valve cost me $18.

hokiemax

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D A M N !!!!! Congrats man!!
This marks another big big milestone in the Maxima history.
I think we have the most talented, devoted and craziest guys than any Honda boards.

You get my OMVM award of the month!( One of the most valuable members)

MardigrasMax received it last time. haha.

1MAX2NV

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I might be missing the whole point of this mod....couldn't you just wait for the Y-pipe to come out on the 2002?

black019

congrats! as always, your hard work has paid off! now lets see a time slip!

Newman

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which is when?

.....exactly

the car has been out for a year and we still have nothing.

damn i think that put it out of my budget

1MAX2NV

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I waited over a year for my cali-spec 99 y-pipe. You guys probably just need to wait another month or two.. Hello..look here.

http://www.warpspeedperformance.com/2002max.JPG

Newman

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i hope you're right. but warpspeed has been promising a 2k2 y-pipe for months now. stillen told me "30 days" back in December of '01. hopefully that picture means progress.

BigDogJonx

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Me and Jason Reynolds personally put on my Ypipe and that Ypipe in the picture loks EXACTLY like the one I had put one. Wonder what the real difference is.

Dixit

emax02

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I'm going to take the car in around 5 to get the car dynoed today. I am really, really hoping to see a nice increase, hopefully 225-230 FWHP and 238+ TQ (240 TQ would be awesome ).



Tony, the reason I did not wait for someone to make a Y-pipe is becuase you can not even make a true Y-pipe on a 2002. The precats can't be removed from the header. For some reason theres bolts connecting the two but the bolts will not come off.

My 4DSC

damn, i can't even chirp 3rd with 302 lb-ft TQ at my front wheels.
guess it's time for a new clutch.

SR20DEN

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Yeah I hope you can hit or break the 230hp barrier. That would easily make you the fastest NA '02 Max. Although I belive an Altima has already hit that.

emax02

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What did I tell you about centerforce clutches

SR20DEN

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WHAT??? Someone bought a centerforce?
Must be a lesson we all must learn once in life.