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I am trying to source a 3" Stainless Steel Dump + Front Pipe in one, but I am having trouble finding one.

I was wanting to find one, online or otherwise, buy it and install it myself, but am having no luck.

Is it possible to find one for less than $400?

Also

Is there any benefit from having seperate dump and front pipes, apart from it being a little easier if you wish to change your turbo?

Thanks

Adam

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Well, I was about to say have a look at a thread in the FS section....but it's gone !!. To cut a long story short, a member (BATMBL) was offering dump/front pipe combos in SS for around $350 or so (as I said, threads gone so not totally sure). Unless the mods have deleted it for some reason (maybe, dunno) then can only assume he did that himself. If that's the case probably means he can't get them anymore......which will be a shame if true, cos I was after one myself :)

I've PM'd him so hopefully will find out what's going on....if that deals gone tho, JMS have SS dump pipes for $350:

http://www.japanesemotorsport.com.au/partsinstock.htm

or combined dump front pipes for $325:

http://www.japanesemotorsport.com.au/partsinstock4.htm

[doesn't say whether they're SS tho...probably not].

I was really after the cat too

wouldn't cost that much its only a small pipe! when i had my last car (ma70 supra) i went to an exhaust shop and the guy made up a 2.5 inch exhaust for $300 which included a muffler and bolted onto the cat.

i would expect a muffler shop / exhaust shop to make one custom for $100-150

Originally posted by turbomad

Hello go to www.flyn.com.au they have them there for $280, they also have cat's, exhausts and other high performance stuff.

Yeh, but that price is for mild steel and they want $500 for the SS version.....BATMBL's price was only around $350 for the SS version

Why pay extra for stainless? I had a mild steel exhaust on my VL turbo for 8 years and it was fine, who really keeps a car long enough that it would outlast an exhaust system and need replacing to warrant the higher cost of stainless?

Also check EBAY as Flying Performance sell there too, I got mine for $235.

Originally posted by turbomad

Why pay extra for stainless? I had a mild steel exhaust on my VL turbo for 8 years and it was fine, who really keeps a car long enough that it would outlast an exhaust system and need replacing to warrant the higher cost of stainless?

Why ??....horses for courses AFAIC, SS is more likely to last esp behind a turbo - you can't just generalise and say that MS is the best way for everyone as every situation will be different. It worked for you and that's good, but since the cost diff for the SS over MS that BATMBL was offering was only about $70 (compared to $150 for the same things from F/Perf), I'd pay the diff to get SS every time.

I think you'll find the properties of SS are such that in situations of great temperature range, such as when bolted on the back of turbo's it has a tendency to become slightly more brittle than mild steel.

Not to say it WILL crack. Most likley it wont. Alot of turbo rotary owners I know over here swear by mild steel on turbo dumps and so forth simply because they have constant cracking issues due to the amazing amount of heat that rote's put out.

Anyway this is bound to start a shit fight, go with what your happy with. Im happy to use mild steel as are alot of people.

Red17

Originally posted by red17

I think you'll find the properties of SS are such that in situations of great temperature range, such as when bolted on the back of turbo's it has a tendency to become slightly more brittle than mild steel.

Ahhh...no....not true....and I'm speaking professionally, as a metallurgist:)

so what is the advantage of stainless, apart from being stain-less and better looking? Do they withstand higher temps? Are they lighter in weight? I have heard they last longer but that is about all you hear from an exhaust shop...

Just wanting to decide which is the better option before i buy too. I have heard that a lot of skylines in Japan just have mild steel aftermarket exhausts - but it may be just the cat-back section though, cant remember.

Originally posted by nismoR34

so what is the advantage of stainless, apart from being stain-less and better looking? Do they withstand higher temps? Are they lighter in weight? I have heard they last longer but that is about all you hear from an exhaust shop...

Stainless has superior high temp corrosion resistance to mild steel - no question. As to why people have had trouble with it, all I can say is that it is rare to find that the material itself is at fault.....other factors such as poor design or poor welding are more likely causes. But, without an understanding of the cause, to blame the material is wrong.

MS is used because it is cheap, readily available and easy to work with. In this case, the cost diff between MS and SS is sufficiently small that I'm prepared to pay it for the extra benefit of having SS. Had the diff been greater the decision would not have been so simple.

I think I'll leave it there, I also don't want to get into a sf over this and people can make up there own mind.

Thanks SteveL: I think I will go SS too, in the case of BATMBL's offerings its only $100 difference and long-term I think it represents an insignificant outlay.

Skippy: now you have just swung the argument back the other way, who are you agreeing with?

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