I was reading somewhere I think on clubxb of someone who made a dual exhaust out of a TRD axleback and was selling it cheap for like 150 , wanted to get rid of it. anywayz I lost the thread of course and never got a chance to ask how it was made, it looked incredible and fit the holes great , of course there was another hole cut on the left, any ideas how where and how much a thing like this would cost to do ?
I mean I took a look at the Borla but $700 is really pushing the wallet

 

Well... you're gonna need two TRD cans, custom piping and someone to cut the rear skirt to not look like crap. So uh, it can be pricey.

If you wanna just ghetto it, you could theoretically just shoot a pipe off of the tip to the other side and weld another tip on... but that's hella ghetto. You might as well just hang an empty tip from the other side.

 

i guess id have the same question.
id like to do a real duel exhaust but im not interested in spending big money.

 

I would seriously not waste the money on the borla. Look at my setup, it is styled after the srt4. Resonator to single pipe split into 2 at center. heres a link with videos and pics. It is one of the best sounding exhausts ive ever heard on an xb, i get compliments all the time. U shud hear it in a tunnel, i love it. The piping AFTER the resonator gives it aunique sound. Guess how much i paid total? $180 bucks.

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...highlight=dual

 

hey thanks a million I was actually looking for someone that put this together

 

yes!!!
thats perfect, just what i was wanting to see.

 

WHY?
Because it "looks" cool? Do you know how much unnecessary resistance you are putting by all those stupid bends? If you go with design that yippyyoyippyyay made.. holy cow, u bend the $hit out of pipe coming out of muffler TWISE, then u bent the $hit out of the two pipes coming out of the split. yeah it looks sweet, but does killllllsssss ur performance. The only DUAL exhaust that u should even consider is single pipe coming down to a muffler witn 1 inlet and 2 outlets, mount it in the middle of the car, and have 1 tip pipe per 1 outlet in the muffler. But then u gonna run into the issue of Where the hell u gonna mount it.. so just forget that idea

 

WOW!
you must have got out of the wrong side of the bed today.
we are all friend just swapping ideas, no need to get crazy.

#1 the straint thew Resonator has way less "resistance" than the stock muffler. the bends do add some back, but not THAT much.

i like the set up because it gives equil preshure to each side, instead of most of it only coming out of one side.

i personaly would enlarge the pipe befor going into the Resonator (maybe 2 2/4 - 2 /12)
who knows maby thats what he did.

 

thats the key right there.. who cars if you got 4 pipes coming out of the back 5'' round.. or 10 pies.. if you only have stock 1.75" pipe all the way down to muffler!!! iduno, thats just my opinion i wasn't trying to talk anyone down, thats why i asked, is it for looks or actually performance cuz it gives u nothing in performance.

 

were talking about a 1.5l n/a engine. due to the piping, I have the same amount of torque i had before, plus the high end has improved. Its a free flowing resonator, with 2 inch piping, even if i removed the right side of the exhaust there would STILL be an improvemtn in flow over stock.
I got this setup made for 1/2 the price of a typical axleback. not only that but it sounds mean, especially in person.
i myself would not go with this setup if i went forced induction. A LOT of srt4 guys that have this type of design, will usually get rid of it and go with a single exit.

So if youre staying n/a its a great idea, u wont lose any torque and gain some high end. Plus its very cost effective, unique looking and sounding. But if youre going f/i, I would suggest not doing this design.

 

torque is key on these cars if n/a. the right combo is everything. i have nothing more than a stock paper air filter, royal purple oil, redline tranny fluid and my axle back. i raced a certain box out here one night with intake ,header and 3inch headerback, and i beat him. and im a fat boy.
that header back im sure destroyed his low end power.

 

btw heres a pic of my car

 

thats the way mine is done, a "Camaro" style muffler. I will try and get pics of it sometime for yall.

I spent maybe $140 on it.

 

yea ur rite, i had an 86 and a 91 z28. fbodies are nearly impossible to fit a true dual exhaust. although i saw once on a forum a guy who achieved it. i believe he used very small resonators. it was similar to the stillen exhaust for the 350z.
the "camaro" muffler is also sold by magnaflow. that would be less labor than my setup. which would cost less in the end. wont sound the same, but at leat u achieved the look, and overall better flow than stock.

 

yea I used a Magnaflow I like the sound, but I also have a header, 2 1/2inch pipe going all the way back from the header, not cat, and a glasspack where the stock resonator used to be.