V36 Y-pipe

[AikenLugonn]

hi, does anyone know who in Sydney sells the above? Mine was damaged.

[AikenLugonn]

Oh, and I did ask Infiniti, but they would need to import the part, and it alone would be approximately $1400.

[colin.ssc]

You could just go to an exhaust shop and ask them to make a custom one up...? Shouldn't cost too much with just piping work. Or ditch the Y-Pipe and do true dual

[AikenLugonn]

Obviously depends on brand etc, but how expensive is the latter exercise?

[Hertz Donut]

Isn't a 370Z Y-pipe the same?

[AikenLugonn]

Does a cat back system cover the y-pipe bit?

[colin.ssc]

Yes. Everything from after the cat to mufflers. I am guessing when you say Y-pipe got damaged you mean the pipe after the cats?

[AikenLugonn]

I think so, it is a y shaped pipe that would sit under the driver? It got caught on an upraised bit in a car park, and ripped my system back about 4 inches. The y-pipe sort of crumpled! The price of having a lowered car (and not paying attention for a second).

Edited April 11, 2016 by AikenLugonn

[The Max]

Precisely why I chose to leave my V at the stock height. Saves the front end coming out of some carpark driveways too.

Anyway, not to go rubbing any more salt in, definitely go custom if you can. Find a good guy and chances are it'll be at worst the same price but way better than getting the stock pipe.

Alternatively: http://www.meganracing.com/product.asp?prodid=1071

Awesome value and I like Megan Racing's products as they're designed to perform without overemphasising the rice. Very tasteful mods. I'm happy with my Megan Racing muffler, which gives the vehicle a nice note without the shitty drone but if my inner wog were to want to come out just a little bit, this would be the path I'd take. Chances are the shipping will be as expensive as the pipe though.

[AikenLugonn]

Thanks for that, though the page indicates that the 'cat back' starts where this piece finishes?

[Hertz Donut]

From the front:

Cats -> Y-pipe -> mid-pipe -> muffler

...so anything advertised as a catback either includes the Y-pipe (in Tony's link), or isn't a true catback.

[AikenLugonn]

Ok cool, thanks again. One more question - stainless worth it? My car already has 67,000kms...wondering if I might as well save some coin.

[colin.ssc]

I personally prefer the sound of mild steel over stainless, deeper and less thinny. All oem cars come with mild steel exhaust and they don't break for years. This is just my personal opinion

[The Max]

I agree with Colin on that one. I do prefer mild steel as well. My former exhaust guy, before he went into retirement, was all about mild steel and didn't bother with mandrel bends. He was more about equal lengths rather than ultra-smooth bends. The systems he produced for me were awesome in performance and in sound. Not only that, stainless retains heat longer as well. The whole idea of the exhaust is to expel gas and heat. It shouldn't retain it, within reason of course.

The only reason why I'd go the Megan Racing y-pipe in this case is purely on cost, if nobody else could produce something decent here. I've been out of the game for a while now so I have zero idea who else could do something that good in mild steel.

Are you sure that our vehicles don't come with an (unpolished) stainless exhaust off the production line? I had a friend comment on that once but I never bothered to check it out up on the hoist in his workshop when I was converting my headlights back to OEM HID.

[colin.ssc]

mmmmmm when I did my exhaust, the guy told me all oem came with mild steel but mufflers on higher end cars could be stainless....but he's an old fart....who knows haha....but he pointed out that the big selling point of stainless was the durability and how it looks....and then proceeded to a 2 min swearing diarrhoea of who the hell looks under their cars to look at how nice looking the exhaust pipes are. And then he made a good point of if oem exhaust can last 10 years without the rust creating a hole, why do people need to pay extra to get stainless...

Edited April 12, 2016 by colin.ssc

[Yo-Yo]

Get an exhaust shop to fab one up. Shouldn't cost too much... From memory my one cost me $350 mild steel painted in flat black but this was some years ago

The factory Y pipe is so tiny, like a sippy straw

[Hertz Donut]

I had a mild steel exhaust put on my Commodore 15 years ago, it's still fine today after nearly 200,000km in NZ weather and being scraped over speed humps many times. I'd say that's durable enough. I think it's heavier than an equivalent stainless system but you're not building a track car where every kg counts.

[pv350gt]

Ask in the forums or fb pages to see if anyone who has upgraded their exhaust has a spare y pipe laying around. The Y pipe from the 07+ 350z, v36 and 370z are all the same. I also see there are a few OEM 370z exhausts for sale on gumtree, you can try a wrecker too. I picked up a 370z y-pipe for $30