Did you guys ever notice a smell when you first got it installed??
Is something burning??

 

Yeah, paint and grease and stuff will burn off for a couple of days.

 

Because i just got from warpspeed yesterday and had car x install it. I know I know i should of done but i tried today and just round off three bolts , so said screw it $80 later FUN TIME!!

 

mine smelled too for like 2 days but then it stopped and its all good now.

 

Yeah, mine smelled like something was burning for a couple of days. It goes away though. Some of that coating they put on there to ship it burns off.

Aren't you glad you went ahead and did this? I mean, can you believe the extra power it has?
Great job and keep up the "go fast" mods.

 

how much was it to install it?

 

I put mine in.....
....it was free!
Just cost me some time and some sweat. You ought to try it yourself.

 

if u dont wanna round off the bolts use a lil something call pb blaster

 

yea it smells for a day or too unless u do a long nite of highway pulls with integras

 

haha, I hate Integras.

 

would WD-40 work?

 

Yeah, but PB blaster is better.

 

Check out the other threads. Many of us have PB-blasted our bolts for days and days to no effect. If you've got an older maxima, it's likely that the bolts need to be torched off to be removed.

So, it's not a self-install unless you've got 1) a torch, 2) a lift so you can get enough clearance to use the torch.

$ucks, but that's life...

 

i hope you got power gains with your y pipe, cuz i dont think i got jack with mine...

 

The y-pipe is gonna give you gains if you "feel" it or not. It removes 2 precats from the stock y. It's working.

As for the smell never got anything like that with my budget y. You'll just have to wait it out. The only thing that I have to battle with now with my y is those friggen "bees in the can" noise (fookin flex section).

 

thats because you didnt have the JAI installed yet now that i put it on there though within the gas tank being gone you WILL feel the power!!

 

I did use pb blaster and it still didn't budge. Well for $80 it sucks but better then having the pipe sit in my room. And the gains are great, every time i hit a straight piece of road i have to punch it. All in all its worth every penny.

 

Do your y-pipes resonate real bad? I am thinking of buying a budget, but don't want it to sound ricey. btw car is stock except for k&n.

 

smell's terrible, but its because it is cold. but smells like straight pipe hehe

 

80 bucks? Holy Crap... did they gold plate it while they were at it?

Just had mine put on the other morning by Merlin's and they only charged me $40 bucks... which was high to me. They had to torch off the two bolts by the cat. The six on the manifolds weren't too bad though.

The great thing was... guy said my O2 sensors looked good... barely any carbon build up he says... even easy to get out.

Exhaust Guy: "How long ago did you replace these?"
Me: "Replace them? I haven't... they're fine."
Exhaust Guy: "How many miles are on this thing?"
Me: "185,000 or so..."
Exhaust Guy: "WTF?!"



I like how the guy that said he put his on himself is from Mississippi... come up here and try to budge some bolts on the bottom of my car with some PB Blaster.

 

We who tolerate the snow, ice and salt definitely need torches for some exhaust bolts. A local muffler place cut the ones between the cat and downpipe for $10 when I did mine. They also loosened the ones between the b-pipe and muffler as I redid the entire exhaust system from the headers back in one day.

~THT