Just curious if anyone's installed a 3" custom or custom fitted a catback for another vehicle...

I just purchased a 5zigen catback for a Mitsubishi Evo viii at a crackhead price and curious if I will be the first

few more details

 

i'm running a 3" custom exhaust out to tanabe mufflers.

 

IMHO, its a bit useless unless u have a serious setup like tsxdriver. I mean RT cat's pipes are 2.25 in. wide in diameter and similar goes for header. That is sort of a bottle neck compared to the 3in. pipe. So why 3 inches in the back? Anyone cares to explain ?

 

Tsxdriver any pics of the undercarriage...?

Valeratj... This is going to be a 3" catback from the turbo back... Not for n/a by any means, although I may install it from the header back before the turbo is on

Ps. Price of the catback $199

 

scroll down to post 89

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...=707893&page=3

 

Are u planning to run it without cat?

 

no cats... I deleted all 3 cats on my TL-S... actually I was one of the first 10 to do the precat and 3rd cat deletes on the 3rd gen TL-S... now I will be the first to get the tsx in the 400hp bracket... looking for 12 second flat @ 1/4 mile

tsxdriver reading threw the thread now

 

Ah I see. Well, I sincerely wish u good luck. How is the progress ?

 

well you will laugh at this one...
I have yet to purchase the car.... just stock piling parts now... going back and forth with excelerate over prices and what he can get... pretty much he can get anything so I am just buying stuff so when I finally pickup the car from wherever I will throw the parts on it

right now I've got air fuel and boost guage and a cf gauge pod for a pontiac gto which I am going to custom fit on the dash
4 x enkei nto3+m in 18x7.5
the 5zigen turbo catback discussed above
I also bought a couple small things which are like must haves, a skunk2 shift knob and a comptech short shifter...

I want to get a clutch before I even buy the car because I really cannot drive a stock clutch its like driving an automatic... so excelerate's going to get me a stage 4 clutch combo with the lightweight flywheel... I'd get stage 5, but I actually may have to parallel park this thing on occasion

 

I thought about doing this with a HKS Ti exhaust for an EVO.

There's an 05 PWP 6MT selling at Paragon for about $18,085, with about 16k miles

 

werds... on my way to look at paragon's inventory... I am over hear looking at some high milleage one's since it doesnt matter since I will pretty much be swapping out the entire motor and trans ... but still one with low millage and I will just build the block in it... really would just sell the hi-miles block to a civic owner.. you know how those guys are

 

fudge... tan leather fudge
non-navi fudge fudge fudge... gonna have to pass on that one... not only cuz of the price, but also because I've heard nothing but bad shit about paragon

 

That's true about Paragon. PWP only come with Ebony interior 06+

Well good luck on your search

 

thanks I will keep looking till I find what I want... ssm black inside with nav

mmmh, just looked at skunk2's website... they always have like a picture of what their catbacks look like... if the one I ordered looks anything like this it will require like almost no modification

 

If you get an 06+ TSX you can sell the cams.. alot of the k20 guys want 06 TSX cams.. so more money to help with your build

 

what about axles my man?

 

it's on my signature dss 2.9

 

Hey for those tuned in! UPS tracking # shows delivery for Friday... They usually drop package off at my house last so 7pm-8pm arrival, I get home at midnight and will be posting pics as soon as I can get home

Check back shortly after midnight

 

here are the pics... it is all mandrel bent, combination of migwelds and tig welds... mig welds on the area powdercoated black.... tig welds on the area polished ss....

the entire catback weighs in at under 40lbs, the tip is very stealthy and the muffler is straight thru, didn't think it was from the design, but hey more power.... overall I am pleased with my $199 investment

I ordered a U bend from magnaflow, but looking at this catback, looks like all I need is a foot of 3" SS

huge ass box... few pics posted for you guys to enjoy

ps. this is straight jdm product, not even 1 word of it is in english, the only thing I can read is "made in japan" and "5zigen"

 

Personally, I would order the Magnaflow 3" race muffler, a length of SS pipe, resonator, one or two SS U bends, SS hangers, SS flanges and weld them together for a much better fitting system.

http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/s...e=main&id=8091

 

sounds kinda like my custom exhaust except my piping is aluminum for weight reduction. as a matter of fact, my entire dual exhaust setup is lighter than most single units (including 5zigen)

 

yea I was going to do that till I found this catback for $199 shipped.... can't beat that

no matter which way you tally it.. I came off good

 

quick diagram of what needs to be done




it's going to cost me $75 to modify this catback

when i did a 100% custom 2.5" single exit on my tl-s it cost me $250 + muffler + resonator + flanges

 

Thats great man ! care to show us an exhaust clip after installation ?

 

I'll have more than an exhaust clip... i will have a full vid of the install at my frequent exhaust shop they do great work...

here is a video of something I put together when i had first deleted the resonator on my tl-s a while ago
(I will make a video very much like this one)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJbQxERC8js

 

haha sick vid!!!

 

nice.... I love the sound of my stock system with header and cat in a tunnel lol

 

paragon sucks...