I got a quote today for turbo piping, this is what im getting full 3 inch stainless steel reverse y pipe, full stanless steel 3 inch downpipe and full stainless steel catback 3 inches, mild steel intercooler piping at 2.5 inches and the turbo air intake piping ( im gona get them powdercoated), and im getting a high flow cat, the bov flange, the 02 sensor bongs on the pipes, and hes gonna mount my front mount intercooler. Now all this is costing me 1700-1800$ what do you guys think, good deal or a bit expensive?

 

even if you get it powdercoated, it still chips when you install it. its an ok price, but make sure fitment is correct. you dont want to lose a ton of ground clearance, especially with PennDOT's crappy roads.

 

not too bad, is it all mandrel bent? With all the accessories it should put it in the ballpark figure of what an upgraded PFI kit would cost, depending on which turbo you decide to go with.

 

lol... our horrible roads are known nation wide

 

yeah i think its a pretty fair price considering hes allso gonna install my intecooler for me, and it is all stainless steel piping except the intecooler piping......im sure im gonna go with him, but i have one more shop i wanna get a quote from. Ill let you guys know what they say.

 

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well, i lived in the burgh for 6 years, so i have th personal experience.

like matt said, make sure its mandrel bent.

 

3" reverse y-pipe? Isn't that kind of big?

 

brad, how long would it take for you to fab me some turbo piping? I'm p!ssed about what happened this weekend.

 

Funny Steve... I'll buy everything off you then. I'm pissed I didn't get to hear that beast.

 

The room was pretty tight with just 2.5 reverse y pipe.

 

what happened?

 

well, we had our big midwest track meet on sat and i shredded a belt and then got another, installed it at the track and then that one was misaligned, sop i had to put the stocker back on and went home without a run.

im just want all my projects to be done.

 

Is a 3 inch reverse y pipe gonna be to big to fit? I was thinking that since im running a t4/t60-1 id go with the bigger reverse pipe
Maybe get a 2.5 inch reverse y and get the downpipe and the rest of the exhaust 3"? better alternative?

 

so im guessing you dont know if its mandrel bent or not?

 

i would have them do 2.5in from the manifolds to the y and go 3in from the y to the turbo

and definitly find out if its mandrel bend

 

Yeah ill find out if its madrel bent, im 90% sure it is, sorta slipped my mind when i was talking to him....

 

I dont know for sure, but I suppose a 3" y would be alright, after all, there would be more exhaust pressure in that pipe than a 2.5" pipe. I just haven't seen anyone use a 3" turbine feed before.

Steve, are you thinking about a turbo now? If you want something, I have a bit of spare 3" piping laying around.

 

i dont know what im thinking. grrrr.

 

I think that is a decent price for all of that in SS if it is indeed mandrel bent. I imagine it would be cheaper and just as effective to use a 2.5" SS budget or warpspeed y-pipe and weld it into the reverse Y. No reason to have that custom made.

Since this guy is gonna have to do all this fabrication anyhow, might as well look into doing a different and more direct set-up than a reverse Y.

 

If you are going with a custom setup I see no reason to use a reverse Y setup. You will reduce turbo lag with a more direct setup like Brad92se's setup.

 

Anyone got pics of how brads setup is?

 

I thought brad's setup was a reverse y. No? I always thought a reverse Y was basically a y turned around so it points forward(Of course this is over simplified).

 

no, its goes back regular and then loops back around the tranny case

 

I guess you could call mine a "forward y"

 

I always thought thats what a reverse y was. That doesn't make sense. So what people call a reverse Y is just a regular y that bends around? Thats stupid terminology.

 

it just goes in a "reverse" direction in the way that it was meant to go.

 

Yeah I don't know where the term came from but I assume it is to mean that the Y goes back and turns 180 degrees thus reversing its direction.

 

i thought reverse y pipe was the forward up pipe set up. not the Y/U pipe

 

....you Guys Are Retarted....!!!!!!

 

well i guess im a fast @SS retard huh?

 

guess so :0 lol