I was wondering if anyone knows if RRM and RMR are the only places to get a high flow/test pipe? or can they be done custom?

 

you can go on ebay and get the same thing for like 40$

 

i really didnt find anything on ebay, i mean that is specific to an 02 lancer es...

 

JVlancer made mine.

 

Get a length of piping (not sure of the size?)and 2 flanges and an 02 sensor bung and take the parts to a weld shop and have em whip it up for ya...

 

Probably the easiest part you can weld for a car. Definitely not the only places you can buy the parts.

 

There has been a fair amount of discussion already that the test pipe is not worthwhile. It ends up making the exhaust too loud and annoying for a lot of people while a high flow cat (which costs about 90 bucks) leaves you legal as far as having a catalytic and is far less restrictive than a stock cat and has been quoted to be only 1% more restrictive than a test pipe. I don't know if I completely agree... but...

The test pipe can be gotten through ebay or just fabbed up... you could put worse things on the car for sure... but just a heads up that the test pipe isn't the best mod in the world but if you want it, go for it!

Later.

Steve

 

yeah some people said they felt they were faster with the stock cat as opposed to the test pipe because of the lack of backpressure or something weird like that, lol

and get a hi-flo cat..the ozone is disappearing to fast as it is already, come on now lol

 

I have 2 lying around in my shop.. polished for $45

 

edit::: shipped

 

i just did a huge science project about the ozone and what makes it worse.

and actually our cars do help to the depleating, but if you wanna save the ozone go talk to truckers or coal burning plants and places like that, cars do a tiny bit of the damage compared what peoples trucks and power plants do.

as for the test pipe on ebay, not sure where they went, they were there like last weeek.

 

yeah i was just playin about the ozone layer...it will still be there by the time i die so who gives a f*ck right?? =)

if u search the boards though about people who had a test pipe and some even switched back to the stock cat. because they got more low end torque etc

 

yet nobody ever posts dynos for anything... so I always have to wonder about that.

 

etc... etc... if i had a dyno I would test my car every day for fun...lol i would even test to see if i got any gains during a 1º temp change... which im sure is possible in some aspect... but then again.... closest dyno is 2 hours.. and 75$ an hour...otherwise id be all for it

 

You have enough mods though that I would think it would be very much justifiable to spend the 75 bucks to get dynoed.

Costs me about 40-50 bucks a time to go get dynoed and there is one about 10 minutes from where I am. Unfortunately I think the calibration is off and by my best estimates it is reading about 10 hp low. I'll figure that out in a couple weeks as I have a friend who dynoed a little while ago on a calibrated dynojet, so I can compare his old numbers against the new ones we'll get.

I just think that dyno numbers are very important and useful for really determining what kind of modifications give what kind of gains. It also doesn't do much good when you dont' have a start point for your car either (I don't have a stock number sadly, only with exhaust and SRI). But I know it costs money, and if it doesn't give hp most of us don't want to spend money on it.

It'd be really helpful though especially with the test pipe. Checking whether or not a high flow cat, stock cat, or test pipe gave the best curves is probably something everyone would want to see.

The thing that surprises me the most right now though is I've only seen one turbo lancer dyno, and that was for a non IC auto that was not tuned, just a straight up kit from RRM and that was that. Makes me wonder what everyone else is making for hp and why we haven't seen the curves yet.