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I never liked the raspy sound of Invidia midpipes so I decided to go with Megan Racing mid pipes for my AWD custom fit project. I couldn't find them used so I purchased the Megan Racing midpipes new thru JM Auto here on CL. They gave me a great deal on them. Got them pretty quickly and had a shop called Tach Motor Works do the custom fabrication.
I thought that both sides would need to be cut and fabbed up but to my surprise the passenger side of the midpipe is the same on both the AWD and RWD. That saved me some trouble and money as well.
Only the driver's side needed to be modded. It had to be cut and fabbed up with a few new pieces of pipe and also the angle of the flange connecting to the headers had to be played with. The driver's side on the AWD bends more to the outside of the car to allow space for the front axle I believe. All in all I was very pleased with how it turned out. The exhaust still sounds pretty quiet, I would need to add an axle back to really get some sound out of it but it's a great mod nonetheless! I will add pics sometime later. I didn't take any proper pics while the car was on the lift.
Test fitting
Installed
Last edited by lilStig; 07-28-14 at 08:34 AM.
Reason: add pics
Wow nice! Interested in a video. Where in NY are you also? would love to hear it in person. I have the F sport right now and was thinking about fabbing up a midpipe also as long as it is not too loud.
I live in Brooklyn. I will get a video of it sometime this week. You hardly notice the midpipe with the stock exhaust honestly. You would need an aftermarket exhaust like fsport to really notice it or maybe mine has to break in first. The Fsport and megan racing mid pipe combo is really nice.
how much fabbing up did you have to do? and how much did it cost do do so. I wanted to get a mid pipe and fab up the driverside but no one ever took pics of how much work is involved
I think they had to make four cuts and add a small piece close to the flange. They said it was kinda difficult but they got it done. I wish I had taken direct underneath pics when it was on the lift to help you out but my phone was dead at the time. Maybe I might jack it up and take a few to post on here. It cost me $250 at Tach Motor Works in Oceanside, NY their number is (516) 608-9930. They did a really good job, great welds and fitting.
Had the car up on the lift over the weekend to replace the exhaust hangers with some Cobb polyurethane ones and took the time to take some better pics of the setup. It has broken in now and sounds much better than when it was first installed. Video coming this weekend...stay tuned.
Lets see a vid of this thing! I have an is250 awd and would like to know what kind of sound you can get out of a midpipe on this thing... i hate that raspy sound you get from high rpms with res. deletes, etc.
Lets see a vid of this thing! I have an is250 awd and would like to know what kind of sound you can get out of a midpipe on this thing... i hate that raspy sound you get from high rpms with res. deletes, etc.
its pretty much the same as any RWD model video that you see on youtube. Its the drive train thats different not the engine
07-28-14, 08:28 AM
Megan Racing midpipes on IS250 AWD
