**Downpipe sold** Just installed some newer exhaust bits on my car last week. Anyone want my old stuff? Sold the downpipe, and I'm thinking somewhere around $30 for everything that's left (midpipe, axleback, heat shield). This is the original stock turbo-back exhaust with 100k miles on it. It's pretty rusty, but other than that it's in great condition with no dents, etc. TSTRBOY had to use a blow torch to get my catback apart, so you'll need extra bolts + nuts for installing these. All flanges are intact. The donut gasket between the downpipe and midpipe is beginning to crumble; half of it is on the downpipe and half on the midpipe. Ryan and I took a look at it a couple weeks ago before re-installing it (Sunday evening... nothing's open), but he made it work with high-temp RTV. I had it on my car for two weeks with the RTV & crumbled donut gasket. No leaks at all. If you take the heat shield, too, you'll need to grind off the old bolt ends and add new bolts to install. All 7 broke clean off during the install last week. That's what I get for waiting until 100k to upgrade. I don't have pictures yet, but if I get enough people interested I'll pull them off the top shelf of the garage and snap some shots.
Bump ttt. If no one's interested in this, then maybe someone can fill me in on the best place to recycle the cats.
Would you be able to meet somewhere on a weekend or something? It doesn't look like this stuff is going anywhere any time soon.
Axleback + midpipe still available. Anyone know of a good place to recycle catalytic converters? Thinking of doing that with the midpipe rather than selling it.
ill give ya my stock midpipe for the axelback...LOL...jk...ill think about the axelback thens....im assuming its the single tipped one?...thinking about gutting it and see how well it sounds.....
umm ill see if i have any spare money when im done making my custom midpipe and changing out the rotors
Bump... $10 for axelback, hopefully I can recycle the midpipe if no one wants it & get some cash for the cat.
Yeah it looks like a cat but its not. Three cats in the wrx; one in the up-pipe and two in the down pipe.
Patently wrong. There is one in the uppipe, one in the downpipe. Then there is a 3rd cat, which is sometimes called the midpipe on our cars. Because typically the "cat back" is purchased in one piece. Uppipe -> Turbo -> Downpipe -> Midpipe/3rd Cat -> Catback The reason I say that is because I don't think anyone sells a "midpipe", the pipe you are thinking of I believe is the pipe from teh cat to the 'axle-back'. And that may very well be the midpipe, but typically you can't just buy those without an axle back attached. Either way, the 3rd cat is separate, and can be removed entirely from the car without removing the downpipe.
And on that note, something to consider if you have a shorty downpipe, or a highflow cat replacement downpipe, you can take the third cat out of the car, put on a dust mask, put one end of the 3rd cat into a garbage bag, and then slide a 3 foot galvanized conduit pipe into the other end. Then beat on that pipe with a hammer till you have knocked the entire catylist out of the inside of the cat, just make sure you have some long needle nosed pliers, because you are going to want to yank out that steel wool crap that's glued to the edges of the inside of that can. And just like that, you now have a highflow turbo back.
well yes that all depends what you consider the downpipe and cat back. I thought he was talking about the mid pipe on the cat back.
Well, there you go then. He wants to sell the pipe that goes from the 3rd cat to the axle back for 10 bucks, and the midpipe/3rd cat he will recycle.
Sorry to butt in on my own thread... but here's a clarification. I sold the stock downpipe, which in my mind includes two cats -- one in each of two sections. They can be separated. One can be replaced with a shorty downpipe. Here's what's still available. 1) The axel- / axle-back section, which includes the muffler & dual tip, as well as a short section of pipe and a flat flange, which bolts to... 2) ...the midpipe section, which includes two lengths of pipe with a resonator in the middle that looks like it could be a cat, but isn't. On the end facing the turbo (not to be confused with bolting to the turbo, which is what the downpipe does...) there is a different type of flange. This flange requires a donut gasket to form a seal with the stock downpipe (or midpipe, as some call it).
It is very possible that my terminology is wrong. I'm using the vocabulary I've heard many other WRX owners use. If what I'm thinking of the midpipe isn't, in fact, the midpipe... what do you call that section of pipe with the resonator? ....half the catback?
if you got bored, you could either find or take pictures of the remaining piping in question and use mspaint etc to label the pipes. That would cut down on any and all of the above terminology confusion. just a thought.
Interesting idea, that. Yeah, they're in the loft in my garage. I'll plan to pull them down and do that today or tomorrow.
