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3" Cattman catback exhaust - interested?
05-04-2006, 10:32 PM
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I have the prototype 3" catback installed now.
Initial impression is good. Quality is excellent, as always. Fitment is pretty good - there is some rattling in the muffler section that may be caused by me not using the correct clamp for the muffler section - still waiting for the right one from Brian. I'll be taking the car to my buddy's muffler shop, when I can, and have him see what/why it's rattling. Keep in mind, that with 3" piping, there's not a lot of room, so rattling may just be a fact of life.
With the 3" catback installed, my car responds much quicker - revs are quicker, redline comes a little faster, wheels smoke easier
etc...
I've had to increase my boosting fuel map a lot - I mean a lot! This shows just how much more flow there is with the 3" piping. The 3" downpipe into a 2.5" catback was just choking my car (if 357 whp is choked) but now, I can feel just how much easier it is for the car to breath...
I'm going out of town (again) next week, so I won't have any news about the rattling for a couple weeks... I'll get pics of the system installed then also. I do have pics of the system before we put it on, and I'll get those up when I have the time...
Again, the workmanship of this 3" system is just awesome!
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, the car sounds MEAN!
Initial impression is good. Quality is excellent, as always. Fitment is pretty good - there is some rattling in the muffler section that may be caused by me not using the correct clamp for the muffler section - still waiting for the right one from Brian. I'll be taking the car to my buddy's muffler shop, when I can, and have him see what/why it's rattling. Keep in mind, that with 3" piping, there's not a lot of room, so rattling may just be a fact of life.
With the 3" catback installed, my car responds much quicker - revs are quicker, redline comes a little faster, wheels smoke easier
etc...I've had to increase my boosting fuel map a lot - I mean a lot! This shows just how much more flow there is with the 3" piping. The 3" downpipe into a 2.5" catback was just choking my car (if 357 whp is choked) but now, I can feel just how much easier it is for the car to breath...
I'm going out of town (again) next week, so I won't have any news about the rattling for a couple weeks... I'll get pics of the system installed then also. I do have pics of the system before we put it on, and I'll get those up when I have the time...
Again, the workmanship of this 3" system is just awesome!
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, the car sounds MEAN!
05-04-2006, 10:45 PM
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Ok, I decided to upload them now...
Here's a shot of all the pieces:
Here's a shot down the inside of the straight section - notice there's no resonator:
Mmmmm... Shiny....
Here's a shot of all the pieces:
Here's a shot down the inside of the straight section - notice there's no resonator:
Mmmmm... Shiny....
05-04-2006, 10:55 PM
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The cat laid out. Now, the fabricator didn't have the cat completely welded up at the time we went and picked up the system from him. Good thing too. The fabricator's intent was to weld the flanges onto the cat in the same configuration as the stock cat. This would be great, if I had a downpipe that matched the stock flange and bolt pattern - which I don't. My suggestion to Brian, since I know he'll be reading this ;-), is to offer the system one way, with the flanges not welded on, and another way with the flanges welded on. Some people who buy this may have custom downpipes/y-pipes which don't match the stock bolt pattern and having a cat with the flanges not welded will allow them to align the cat to their setup. What we did, was bolt the system up and then drive it to a muffler shop. The muffler shop then welded the flanges onto the cat once it was aligned properly.
Pic of the cat with the flange inserts, inserted:
Pic of the cat with the flange inserts, inserted:
05-04-2006, 10:56 PM
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Pic of the catback mocked up. Notice that the muffler section is 2 pieces - the small piece slips inside the muffler section and should be held together with a special clamp (not a cheap U-bolt clamp like I'm using now - just waiting for my clamp from Brian wink wink, nudge nudge) You can have the section welded if you want, but it'll be hard to install and take off:
05-05-2006, 12:31 PM
#87
Originally Posted by HNDA ETR
...My suggestion to Brian, since I know he'll be reading this ;-), is to offer the system one way, with the flanges not welded on, and another way with the flanges welded on. Some people who buy this may have custom downpipes/y-pipes which don't match the stock bolt pattern and having a cat with the flanges not welded will allow them to align the cat to their setup. What we did, was bolt the system up and then drive it to a muffler shop. The muffler shop then welded the flanges onto the cat once it was aligned properly...
Good work, Roy, I'll read on...
Brian C Catts
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05-05-2006, 01:05 PM
#88
Originally Posted by HNDA ETR
Pic of the catback mocked up. Notice that the muffler section is 2 pieces - the small piece slips inside the muffler section and should be held together with a special clamp (not a cheap U-bolt clamp like I'm using now - just waiting for my clamp from Brian wink wink, nudge nudge)
My understanding is that the compact HD 3" clamp has come in and been reshipped to you. You should get it today or Monday, let me know offline if that doesn't appear.
Brian C Catts
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05-05-2006, 01:17 PM
#89
OK, we've got a good design, let's GO!
Now that Roy has the system on his car, we've got a proven design we can take into production, so let's see about waking this thread up again.
Please indicate if you are ready to purchase a 3" Cattman Catback for your 00-03 Maxima, or 00-04 I30/I35, and these would be available by roughly the end of May. No "maybe's" on this list, just those who are confident about making a purchase in the next month.
I suppose knowing the price would be useful, so I'll mention that although I'm not precisely sure what these will cost me right now, we'll commit to an intro price of $695, complete with installation kit (gaskets, fastners, clamp).
I'd like to get at least 6 commitments before I order the first batch - no money will change hands of course, that only occurs when the parts are ready to ship.
Brian C Catts
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Please indicate if you are ready to purchase a 3" Cattman Catback for your 00-03 Maxima, or 00-04 I30/I35, and these would be available by roughly the end of May. No "maybe's" on this list, just those who are confident about making a purchase in the next month.
I suppose knowing the price would be useful, so I'll mention that although I'm not precisely sure what these will cost me right now, we'll commit to an intro price of $695, complete with installation kit (gaskets, fastners, clamp).
I'd like to get at least 6 commitments before I order the first batch - no money will change hands of course, that only occurs when the parts are ready to ship.
Brian C Catts
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06-16-2006, 11:04 AM
#91
Originally Posted by HotshotVQ35
any chance on dynoing the 3" on a NA 3.5. i bet it makes more power than your 2.5" especially with headers and other bolt-ons. nice work brian
This would be an interesting experiment. Once these go into production, we'll see if someone is willing to give it a try. But for now, it seems the demand has evaporated. We're not going to fabricate a batch of these until we see more interest.
Brian C Catts
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07-27-2006, 12:48 PM
#93
Originally Posted by Ghase
What going on with this, I could really use one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was a lot of initial interest expressed in a 3" 00-03 catback, but by the time we got a system developed we couldn't find any takers.
If we could get 7-8 order commitments I'd be thrilled to take these into production.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
08-31-2006, 11:24 PM
#97
Originally Posted by bandit18
im gonna be getting a s/c so you can count me in to this project. whats your price Cattman?
The price would be around $675 if we could get enough people interested to run a batch.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
09-01-2006, 08:04 AM
#99
Originally Posted by MyownNismo
Somebody stop the poll. Sure people will still vote but nobody is stepping forward. I couldn't wait so I got the 2.5 in. instead.
appears my intentional voting served it's purpose well
I'm totally down for a 3inch exhaust for my '96, long as it sounds good. If you can swing it..consider it sold and i'm more than willing to prepay. Also..there any 3 inch fast cats hanging around? I'm in need of a 3 inch high flow Cat converter....
09-07-2006, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Cattman
The price would be around $675 if we could get enough people interested to run a batch.
Brian C Catts
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Brian C Catts
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09-08-2006, 11:12 AM
#101
Originally Posted by ObsidianIce69
appears my intentional voting served it's purpose well
I'm totally down for a 3inch exhaust for my '96, long as it sounds good. If you can swing it..consider it sold and i'm more than willing to prepay. Also..there any 3 inch fast cats hanging around? I'm in need of a 3 inch high flow Cat converter....
I'm totally down for a 3inch exhaust for my '96, long as it sounds good. If you can swing it..consider it sold and i'm more than willing to prepay. Also..there any 3 inch fast cats hanging around? I'm in need of a 3 inch high flow Cat converter....
Unfortunately, the 3" catback design we have ready now is for the 00-03; doing one for the 95-99 will be an additional project.
Brian
09-29-2006, 09:18 AM
#102
Originally Posted by Cattman
Unfortunately, the 3" catback design we have ready now is for the 00-03; doing one for the 95-99 will be an additional project.
Brian
Brian
DOH! I misread then, I thought this was for boosted 4th gens as well, how far away/how many are needed to get that going, sounds like we could get at least 5 prepaid orders going for those...???
02-06-2007, 10:59 PM
#109
Well, we probably made a mistake when we designed a 3" catback for the 00-03 first, we just thought that's where the most demand would be.
Turned out to be a very poor investment - everyone wanted one, we designed it, the demand evaporated, and they never went into production. A fair bit of R&D expense went up in smoke because we never sold any.
So, based on this prior experience, I need to know that I'll be able to sell 12-15 units (my minimum production #s) pretty quickly before I invest in prototype development and take the part into production.
If ten (10) 95-99 Maxima owners will commit with non-refundable $250 deposits (we'd take them as money orders, and not cash them until the parts are finished), then I will find a 95-99 car in the LA area for fitment and get a 3" exhaust made. Development time would probably run about 10-12 weeks.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
Turned out to be a very poor investment - everyone wanted one, we designed it, the demand evaporated, and they never went into production. A fair bit of R&D expense went up in smoke because we never sold any.
So, based on this prior experience, I need to know that I'll be able to sell 12-15 units (my minimum production #s) pretty quickly before I invest in prototype development and take the part into production.
If ten (10) 95-99 Maxima owners will commit with non-refundable $250 deposits (we'd take them as money orders, and not cash them until the parts are finished), then I will find a 95-99 car in the LA area for fitment and get a 3" exhaust made. Development time would probably run about 10-12 weeks.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
02-07-2007, 02:44 PM
#110
Well i for one would send the money today. So really can we use this thread to decide who is seriously interested? You can put me at the top of the list! Maybe even for 2 if i could convince my bro to supercharge his...
02-28-2007, 08:28 AM
#111
Originally Posted by Cattman
Well, we probably made a mistake when we designed a 3" catback for the 00-03 first, we just thought that's where the most demand would be.
Turned out to be a very poor investment - everyone wanted one, we designed it, the demand evaporated, and they never went into production. A fair bit of R&D expense went up in smoke because we never sold any.
So, based on this prior experience, I need to know that I'll be able to sell 12-15 units (my minimum production #s) pretty quickly before I invest in prototype development and take the part into production.
If ten (10) 95-99 Maxima owners will commit with non-refundable $250 deposits (we'd take them as money orders, and not cash them until the parts are finished), then I will find a 95-99 car in the LA area for fitment and get a 3" exhaust made. Development time would probably run about 10-12 weeks.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
Turned out to be a very poor investment - everyone wanted one, we designed it, the demand evaporated, and they never went into production. A fair bit of R&D expense went up in smoke because we never sold any.
So, based on this prior experience, I need to know that I'll be able to sell 12-15 units (my minimum production #s) pretty quickly before I invest in prototype development and take the part into production.
If ten (10) 95-99 Maxima owners will commit with non-refundable $250 deposits (we'd take them as money orders, and not cash them until the parts are finished), then I will find a 95-99 car in the LA area for fitment and get a 3" exhaust made. Development time would probably run about 10-12 weeks.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
04-23-2007, 01:35 PM
#114
New thread for 95-99 Max 3" Catback
I've started a new thread to see if there's enough demand to begin a 95-99 3" catback exhaust project. Its in the same subforum, at 3" Cattman catback for 95-99 Maxima
Please shift all discussion about a 95-99 Maxima 3" catback to that thread, I'll be more involved.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
I've started a new thread to see if there's enough demand to begin a 95-99 3" catback exhaust project. Its in the same subforum, at 3" Cattman catback for 95-99 Maxima
Please shift all discussion about a 95-99 Maxima 3" catback to that thread, I'll be more involved.
Brian C Catts
Cattman Performance
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