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Just Installed My 3" Split Dump/front Pipe And 3" Catco Cat

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lingeringsoul Grand Master

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Well, it's been long time coming, just never got around to it until now. I recently bought the 3" split dump front pump and a second hand high flow cat just to finish off my exhaust. After 2 days, and numerous trips to the local hardware store for tools, I've finally finished installing both.

A bit of history first. I bought my Skyline last year around this time and was driving it around pretty stock for a LONG time. First ever mod I bought, was.........drum rolls please!!!!!............A JUST JAP HKS COPY SSBOV. (it's a piece of shit, and worked for a week and I was a bit of ricer then)

Yes, I was stupd back then.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, while driving stock pressure of around 7psi, I never really pushed the car into high revs. I then turned up the boost and installed the front mount intercooler and started trashing the car and found out at high rev e.g. anything above 5k, i wouldn't get much response....just a lot of drone and more drone and really couldn't hear much of anything else. So after getting used to the characteristic of the car for the last 4 month, I finally completed the exhaust.

It took me AGES to do, mainly because the spanners I had were of incorrect size and had to make 4 trips to the local hardware store on foot to get all the bits and pieces I needed. I might write a DIY for people those who are interested and a list of problems I have encountered along the way.

At 5pm today, I got everything installed and took it for a drive (8pm). The first thing I noticed was the response, it was definitely a lot faster response than what it was before and to be honest, public road is just not a good place to test out how good it really is considering that by the end of second gear, it;s around 60 or 70 ks already.

The second thing was definitely, NO MORE DRONING, just the smooth sound of the engine and the air flow. Now I wonder why I haven't done so 6 months earlier, silly me.

The downside to all of this, is that I can now hear all the "other" noises I wasn't hearing before. I can now hear the damn knocking sound from the fudged up shocks and some other strange sound that I wished it wasn't there.

Well, the next step is putting my SAFC2 to work and getting a tune. It's been lazying around in the cigarette tray for last few month its time to earn its keep.

After the tuning, I'm going to give all this a rest and stop spending all my hard earned cash.........yeah I wish.

Thanks you for your attention, hope you all can enjoy your split dump as much I will be.

James

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Nate79 Enthusiast

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Good to hear mate. I'm ordering a split dump/front and hi-flow cat in the next few days. Hopefully I'll be as happy as you are. Congrats, I cant stop spending money on my Skyline either. :thumbsup:

Nate.

lingeringsoul Grand Master

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not too sure about the brand, never cared anyway. For me, as long as it fits and works, it's all ok.

I guess I'll do a DIY once I get the camera back from the folks for better illustration.

I was pretty hesitant about doing ti at first as well, not knowing if anything needed welding or if my tools will stand up to the task at hand.

In the end, I decided to give it a go anyway and it was rewarding once that was finished.

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hmmjust a few things that dont make sense my relatively stock skyline s2 r33 does well over 60-70 at end of 2nd? Are you only revving to 5000rpm? And also wouldnt exhaust be louder with these modifications? and hence it would make hearing 'fudged suspension' a little harder to do? Good to hear you did it all your self though good job.

evil_weevil Grand Master

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Nice one James,

Only a few days ago talked to you on msn about it, so once you had the right tools, fairly easy and straight forward job?

still waiting for my dump pipe :P

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