I got my Tsudo N1 exhaust exactly one week after I placed the order through. Great service from Speed Element, and great shipping. Hey hey, lookie at the beauty.



This is the canister. Pretty large, and oh so shiny!

Look at the mandrel bent pipes. Sweet! No jaggies! The weldings were excellent.

These are the things it came with. 5 bolts and nuts, two flat gaskets and one metal cone one.

Here is the tip with the ugly silencer. I wanted it off the second I saw it. All it took was a claw hammer and some fineness. It’s hammer time! No WD-40 used. (Oh snap!)


Got to wrap the tip before installing. I’ve read another thread that during installation, it can scratch the bumper.

I’ve decided to not install the midpipe, because other peeps here said it would be too loud. And I’ll only need a 2.5 inch midpipe if I’m going turbo. So on to using the stock midpipe and just getting the Axelback on. Here is the joint we have to… um… dis-joint. Spring bolts. Boing boing?


The nuts for these spring bolts ARE welded onto the stock axel back, and with the magical WD-40 and some flexing of muscles, the bolts pops right off. Yoink.

There are three rubber hanger things that we have to get off. Only two needed for the Tsudo Axelback to mount on. Here are the three. (one was hiding from me on the left side)



The hardest part of this whole thing was getting these bastards off. Your best friend WILL be the WD-40. Take a flat head, jam it between the metal and the rubber, stick the WD-40 plastic straw in and spray like a girl with a small bladder at a beer party.
Here I used a screwdriver and a pair of scissors to part the rubber hole and yank off. (took me a while to figure this out)

Did I mention the importance of workgloves? I’ve read someone here got a giant cut from the heatshield. THIS heatshield, is deadly.

Rubber hangers finally off. I hate them!!!

Here is the stock exhaust vs the Tsudo. Weight loss like it’s on Jenny Craig. Did I mention shiny???

Here are the welded nuts on the stock. Can’t use them! And in turn, can’t use the spring bolts because I’ve tried screwing the Tsudo nuts onto the spring bolts and are different thread. So got to use the tsudo nuts AND Tsudo bolts.

Here is the stock cone on the right and Tsudo cone on the left. Tsudo come is a little larger in diameter and a little taller in depth.

Here’s how they fit on the stock midpipe. First is the stock cone that fits flush and the second is the Tsudo one leaves a little space on the bottom.


I was just about to use the stock ones as someone suggested here (so no leak) but ended up using the Tsudo one because it didn’t feel like the stock ones had enough depth to seal the stock midpipe and the tsudo axelback when I tried to put them together. So pop on the cone, put the tsudo on the two hangers (friend holding it up), line up the midpipe and the axelback and put the nut and bolts on, and tighten like Meg Ryan’s face lift.
The exhaust after everything was touching the bumper, Oh no! Possible melting like the wicked witch? Solution? Someone suggested here to pop something in between the middle of the rubber hanger to make it longer, ghetto way, but that’s what I did. (buying a 4 inch hanger I think will make the exhaust too low. Get one from Pepboys that’s 3.00 - 3.25 inch hole-to-hole if you have the cash) Perfect!

Lowered back down, check your bumper-exhaust clearance, start your engines, rev, and enjoy.



I am real satisfied with this exhaust. Installation was at around 2 hours (because of figuring out the rubber hangers) Deep tone and not a can of bees, looks aggressive, no rasp and no sputter, no rattles, checked with hand and no leaks, not too loud. Just remember to wear protective gloves and goggles(rust will get in your eye and you will cry like a baby) I didn’t lose much low end power because I believe I kept the stock midpipe, drove around the neighborhood and sound drops to nothing when let off the gas or at stop light, on the highway above 55MPH it quiets down to a purr. Meow. I love this pipe so much that I want to kiss it hug it and shove my… ok, I’ll keep it PG-13. Lol.

I want to thank everyone on Scionlife that posted about this exhaust in the past and allowed me to find so much info on it. Thanks yall!

 

Good write up.

I had one but I'm in Southern California...
Took that off in about a week of having it on my car.

Too many cops were taking second looks at me and my car.

Damn California.

 

Cause mufflers are for idiots haha

 

How come you're a part of SCTCC and I never see you on our forums?

 

Good write-up. Sound clip?

 

i cant see the pics. and a sound clip would be good.

 

Wussy ...I did it with nothing and got super nice bruises and rust in my eyes ...FELT SUPER GOOD! ...I hate the fact my family is so unprotective ...we have gaurds on nothing haha..glad you take the proper precautions.

 

Ha yeah it was funny Ty Max, I had only my glasses on and when the rubber thing came off, then came the rusty barrage. Plus a few bruses too. And be careful of the stock exhaust when it comes off. Because it can fall on your head. It didn't hit me in the head... honest
Sound clips? Anyone knows where I can upload and link mpegs/avis?

Now what am I going to do with this giant midpipe? Time for a little game of "joust".

 

use it! the mid pipe makes a difference trust me, i have the 2.5 inch megan exhaust and noticed a difference, header back.

 

Question: I bought the tsudo midpipe from a guy locally cause I have the TRD axel and megan s-pipe. I am missing this:


And I have a gap between the axel and midpipe cause of it. Sounds rasy right there. Can I buy this cone thing at a store?

 

Yeah you should be able to. Should be able to find it in Pepboys/Autozone/etc. in the muffler/exhaust section. Yeah without it you will have lots of air seeping out of the joint since the axel and midpipe doesn't sit flush without it. Worst comes to worst go to the dealership and get a stock one...

 

good pics, nice install, looks clean, i just finished my install on my megan exhaust

lol, and its a good thing we jersey-ians dont have to worry about smog laws lol

 

Did you have this issue because you used the stock midpipe and not the tsudo midpipe? A lot of people are saying bolt right up, no problems! Let me know, I hope I dont have this issue, don't really feel like using the ghetto way of putting something in between the rubber hanger.
If I do run into this issue, what object did you guys use to put in between the rubber hanger?

 

That might be true, since I don't have the midpipe on, (still sitting in my room as an ornament) I can't say for sure. But now that I am thinking about it, I don't think the midpipe matters, since it is the last rubber hanger that is closest to the back of the car that determines how high the exhaust tip hangs. (everyone says to tighten all your bolts only after you hang up the entire system). Anyways, I put a socket in between, one that I don't use. But hey, replacing your midpipe causes lots of law trouble in CA doesn't it?

 

nice write up with pics. How does it sound?

 

Loud! well not very very, you'll love it when you roll down you window coz you will hear a constant sweet rumble, you wont miss not to hear it.. Without music on, with windows closed its kinda loud inside, sound insulation will help.

 

Well I use to have an HKS axle-back and the Tsudo seems like an exact replica almost... I have had cops follow me with the HKS fart cannon and never been pulled over. However, I dont know how it'll be with no cats. If anything, I'll get a ticket, put my stock header/exhaust back on, pass inspections, take off stock crap and put my aftermarket stuff back on! Besides, I plan on modifying the axle-back of the tsudo and switching it out with a SPINTECH Sportsman street (designed for no-cats and is still suppose to be quiet)!

 

ok that thing in the middle of the rubber hanger worked great for me for sometime, after the turbo install, it started to hit the bumper.. maybe some more movement plus the new downpipe/spipe to replace the stock.. even with longer and tougher hanger it still move up with the hanger moving from vertical to horizontal position and hit the bumper.. i had it a metal welded from the hanger to the car itself, worked great but excess vibration is a lot.. anyone had this issue

 

mine is horrible... i have the dc sport headers and an aftermarket s-pipe and i think its throwing it off line cause mine rubs the bumper so much it melted it. so i bought a new hanger for the canister and it didnt help. i ended up taking off the hanger for the axelback and used the longer hanger for the canister. and i used zip ties to hold where the axel back is in place. it hangs so low now that i had to take off that metal plate in the middle of the car cause it was scaping it bad. i might put the stock headers back on or something i dont know yet,

 

I did the same install las weekend and I used two pieces of wood in between the rubber hangers just so it wouldn't touch my bumper.

Do you (or anyone) think I would need a heat shield on the bumper or it that just for looks?

either way, where can I get a CF heat shield?