Stebro test pipes - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

djomlas · 01-20-2008, 10:09 AM

interesting, looking at them, cant that be made at a local muffler shop for under $30 and velded up? i mean, its just a pipe

tholyoak · 01-20-2008, 12:33 PM

I see a couple of issues with these.

A) they look simply like aluminized pipe, not stainless,
B) the bends also do not apper to be mandrel bent, and thus the ID tapers down at the bends

thus like djomlas states, they could be fabbed up for about $30 by any muffler shop.

Todd

yellowboxster01 · 01-20-2008, 04:05 PM

Somebody go have them fabbed up at a muffler shop and post pictures. I'm fairly certain these are mandrel bent but, I'll contact Stebro and make sure.

djomlas · 01-20-2008, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by yellowboxster01

Somebody go have them fabbed up at a muffler shop and post pictures. I'm fairly certain these are mandrel bent but, I'll contact Stebro and make sure.

you can actually see in the pics where they were bent man, were not trying to diss you or anything.

Kirk · 01-20-2008, 08:52 PM

I'm with you guys, you can see where they are bent and the diameter changes. I really doubt they were mandrel bent.

A few years back I had a muffler shop make a straight pipe replacement for the muffler on my Subaru WRX. With the turbo on that car and two cats you really didn't need the muffler for volume control. The straight pipe I had made looked almost exactly like these Stebro pipes. Same material and same kind of bends. I think I paid about $70 for my straight pipe. So I think you're dreaming with the $30 estimate, unless you've got a friend in the business. I don't want to guess how much it would cost, but I don't think it would be that cheap. Still I'd opt to go that route as there's no question you'd still save over the cost from Stebro.

Kirk

Gary in BR · 01-20-2008, 10:06 PM

Stick the pipes on already I want to hear them!!!

yellowboxster01 · 01-21-2008, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by djomlas

you can actually see in the pics where they were bent man, were not trying to diss you or anything.

I know, I'm just curious to see what they'd look like and how much they'd cost to have them done at a muffler shop.

I'm installing them today, after work. Look out!

chaudanova · 01-23-2008, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by yellowboxster01

I know, I'm just curious to see what they'd look like and how much they'd cost to have them done at a muffler shop.

I'm installing them today, after work. Look out!

So, how did this turn out? Any sound clips and driving impressions?

porsche986spyder · 01-24-2008, 06:56 AM

With no O2 bung wholes for the sensors I hope you plan on keeping the cats at least in the headers on. Otherwise you will get your cells to come on and stay on. Or you can do vice versa, delete the ones on the headers and keep the ones on the secondary down pipes. Either way, you can only delete one set(pair) with out any problems but not bot sets(all four). Not to mention the problems you would have with passing emissions. The real question here is which set of cat deletes gives you more power, the ones located in the headers, or the secondary ones? Any one know? I would bet deleting the ones in the headers would be more to benefit from.

SeattleBoxers · 01-26-2008, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by yellowboxster01

I'm installing them today, after work. Look out!

How did the install go? Was everything a simple bolt in with no mods?

I'm considering ordering a pair for myself, but want to get your opinion first.

Any chance of posting a video/sound clip?

yellowboxster01 · 01-26-2008, 02:58 PM

I'll post a video when I get them on. I tried last Saturday and this Saturday to install them at the shop and no one has been there to let me in. So, I bought an air compressor with an impact and the one impact socket I needed. I'm doing the install in the garage tomorrow afternoon.

I did take some video on the highway this morning of just the Race muffler, I'll see if any are good.