TORSPD: NEVR

Duh.

You're next right?!

Think less desert, and more Gulf.

The good thing is that you have a lot of great shops in your area.

Seems to me that you may still have your MAF wires incorrect. Definitely take another look, or your MAF is bad.

 

Where in TX?

As for great shops I sure like to know who they are because most suck.

Plus you don’t touch the wiring for MAF just move them and we went over the wiring more then a few times‼️

Have you installed this URD system before?

 

I have installed a MAP-ECU3 before, but that was looooong ago. The more qualified members are in the Turbo BS thread, in the Performance section.

LCE comes to mind. Seen plenty of members from AZ, getting things done. So there has to be some.

 

Material blocked. Finished the portion in the last picture, which has the sensor bungs. Added a short straight section to it, which is what the exhaust hangers attach to.

Ordered a resonator and muffler. Those will arrive withing a few days. Another few after work days, and I'll have a new full exhaust. With what is on there, it sounds surprising smooth. The real result soon to follow. Maybe have to make a short video.

 

LCE is who I had build the exhaust system... Not the best work!

Apparently Toyota changed the head on the 2.7 in 2014 or 15. So after I purchased the header I found out that they wanted to test fit the new design. I drove to Lake Havasu and they installed the new header. I then asked if they wanted to build an cat-back using the largest muffler Magnaflow made. I hate fart can exhaust! After they built the exhaust I had someone else removed the second cat and add another Magnaflow 5 x 8 x 14 in its place. OMG sounds so much better⚠️ The second guy is backed up about a year now. I had to wait 6 months before...

 

My friend has a 2015. He purchased and installed the LCE header, to get better exhaust flow with his 2tr URD kit.

After he installed that, I burned in a Vibrant resonator, to go with his AFe muffler. Sounds pretty good now.

 

Been scouring my mind and finally remembered the name. Horsepower Freaks. Are they still in AZ?

 

Here is the cross breed cat, in its new Euro home, with the flex coupling, and hangers. Modified the original mounts for these. Making it super easy to drop the section if necessary.

 

This is the Stainless Bro’s resonator. Noice piece! My new resonator fam.

 

Looks nice, fabing hangers isn't any fun

 

I agree. Bending half inch stainless isn’t either, without an acetylene torch, or a cut. Have not seen a torch around here in a while, so a cut it was. Lol.

Making use of those old hangers really helped.

Crazy all of this work, going into a $500 daily driver. Lol.

 

Add divide by Roadkill...

 

Holding it up because the flex coupling is allowing it to sag.

 

They know how to prioritize fun! Junk car; good parts; care less about the body. Throttle on and enjoy!

 

Would MAP gas be hot enough to allow bending?

 

Used it before. Took a looooooong time to get it hot enough to make it worth it. I still had to hammer it repeated with a lot of force. Not worth it now, as a few dabs with the welder and it is back to strong. Technically, I could use the welder as a heat source. Didn't try that yet.

When I was working on my friend's, he brought his mini torch kit down. A few seconds with a wrench for leverage, and the bend was perfect.

 

I think that I am getting down this aluminum thing...



The beads at the edge are my weld puddle bead roll. Ugly but hey, It works.

 

Yeah, you've got your settings dialed in pretty well to be able to put a bead right on the edge.

 

Fancy footwork too. Let me tell you. It's a little tap dance down there. Lol

 

The Bimmer’s exhaust is complete, minus a slight turn down out of the muffler. That will go on tomorrow. Otherwise, it is pretty bad ass I feel. Here are some of the last few pictures.