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Do the intake yourself. You can buy a 3 1/2 inch Y pipe on eBay for $39 plus 2 Spectre filters in 4 inch housing in and out will set you back a bit over $100 add a few clamps then the expensive part which is the pipes as you'll need those fabricated. Maybe a little heat wrap and you're good to go. Still works out far less than what they're asking around the traps and will have you looking good under the hood. Of course that Y Pipe price might vary once you throw an 82mm in the mix. Here's Boosted-AMG's effort:
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Hey! That's my motor!
Boosted and i both had the same setup made but his car is still under my knife.
Good to know, is there anything I can do to the exhaust? I currently have the eurocharged headers with no primary cats, what if I got rid the the middle resonators, got rid of the secondary cats and swapped the mufflers for either e63 or eurocharged mufflers? Is the stock system 2.5 or 2.75?
That fabberage exhaust looks like a good deal, mids eliminate resonator and secondary cats and it's a built in x pipe all for $499 plus of course $799 for the rest of the exhaust
That fabberage exhaust looks like a good deal, mids eliminate resonator and secondary cats and it's a built in x pipe all for $499 plus of course $799 for the rest of the exhaust
Save some $$ and leave the secondary cats and resonator. If you want to change the sound just modify the stock mufflers or buy a different set.
So you're telling me those huge intakes make no performance gains?
IMO, the choke point in our intake system is at the Y-pipe and throttle body inlet. If you've attempted to do any work back there where the Y-pipe is, you'll see just how little room there is to work with. This is keeping us from having a huge monster intake or running something like a 100+mm throttle body like the GM and Ford guys can (so jelly). I was about to attempt notching out the firewall right there, but I made a Y-pipe out of silicone for my 90mm TB and it actually fits.
ok, ive decided on where to go next but just to verify, so the 82mm EC throttle body is just a BRAND NEW MERCEDES TB off of a 07+ S550? You can get those for about $400 new BOSCH on EBAY, is that literally the same thing? Trying to understand why these TB are so expensive?
04-05-2015 | 04:40 PM
