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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).

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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. :P

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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

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