CP-e Update

[kingkakyle]

^^^

you have nothing to envy to anybody here !!

man you're poor college students with a light modded 2005 Solara SE...I was far from that when I was a college student !!

haha ^ ^
well i have much more money to spend things on now since ive moved back home xP
plus i have a decent paying job so i guess im just a "normal" college student now

[Sp33d]

wait, so they have a y-pipe already made for a gen 1? people tend to forget about gen 1.5's

-mark

[Sebas007]

If anyone has a proposed project, just toss it out there.

Y-pipe, high flow cat, headers

one by one those projected product will have to have a minimum of instant success to get a good continuation (minimum delay) in the process of availability and profitability of the next product for us (normal relationship for a business to decide to offer or not product).

I'm really ready for it, are you ?

[crispone]

^^^^

Ready.



-crisp (Guinness)

[zoomzoomthis05]

Thx for the info! That would be sweet to have a nice y-pipe for the Gen 2. I have seen the stock y-pipe & "WTF!" came into my head when I saw it. Talk about crushed! March sounds like a good month to get an intake.

^^^ I was like Whiskey Tango Foxtrot... OVER!!! I was shocked to see how crushed it was.. but where there is a will there is a way LOL

[crispone]

^^^

you have nothing to envy to anybody here !!

man you're poor college students with a light modded 2005 Solara SE...I was far from that when I was a college student !!

haha ^ ^
well i have much more money to spend things on now since ive moved back home xP
plus i have a decent paying job so i guess im just a "normal" college student now

One semester... during my tenure at a school in Kansas... I opted to seek the "most cost effective" way to "endure" a semester... I had a 1969 Step-Van at the time... "DINAH", an old grey "UPS-truck" lookin' "VANETTE" body on a Ford chassis with the venerable 300cid Straight Six. It had the slide/lock open front doors and SINGLE front driver seat... with the STEEP angled two-piece front windshield that looked like big EYES on a face, nearly 4 feet in front of the drivers face. We'd drive around in the spring wearing a white smock and cap while playing "ice-cream-truck" music BLARING on the stereo... and S-L-O-W-L-Y cruise a neighborhood or in front of a park, JUST to see the KIDS come RUNNING UP for ICE CREAM! BWAAAAAAHHHhhh ha ha ha ha!

Anyway....

The ceiling was like an "Airstream" camper... "bulbous" and tall... and you could STAND UP inside of it... even JUMP AROUND! I had placed some remnant carpet on the floor, and a small three drawer dresser nailed to the wood board flooring as well. I LIVED in the van in the parking lot at next to the dorms... paying ONLY tuition... (NO room and board...) and for meals, I worked each lunch hour for about 90 minutes in the FOOD SERVICE as a DISH WASHER with some stoner dudes. We would TOSS the plates around like it was a game... and in exchange, the manager of the Marriott food service allowed me to eat for free AND take anything I wanted from the kitchen after meals. (I ate better in my VAN than most students did in their rooms!) Didn't buy a single text, but went and used the library copies or didn't read the material at all... just "winged-it"... the ruling in the dorms was that you could stay up to TWO nights for free in someone's room as a guest... then you had to PAY from the third night... so I just ALTERNATED between two other guys without a roommate, when it got too cold to sleep in the van... and used the SHOWERS and other facilities like I lived there! (My van was just out the back entrance... )

Anyway... just wanted to put "college-student-with-vehicle-like-a-Solara" into perspective...

I'll post a pic of "Dinah" the van someday... just to lend "creedance" to my ramble...

-crisp

[Sebas007]

Keep us updated down2thec !!

[PXLpainter]

Just got a message that my new MAFci unit is being made - so mine will be Fresh from the Oven when I get it! Not one of those stale units that has been sitting on the shelves for weeks! LOL!!

[Down2TheC]

If anyone has a proposed project, just toss it out there.

Y-pipe, high flow cat, headers

one by one those projected product will have to have a minimum of instant success to get a good continuation (minimum delay) in the process of availability and profitability of the next product for us (normal relationship for a business to decide to offer or not product).

I'm really ready for it, are you ?

Nice part is... since they can do mandril bending in house, the magic number of preorders would be much less.

So... should we make an official "We want CP-e to make a Y-pipe" thread? I'll need to talk to Brian the pipe god first. While the Y is crushed to get 2 into 1, without making a bigger pipe after that, does it make any difference? Reduce some pressure head and turbulent flow I imagine. But unless it changes the flow rate... eh... I don't know crap about exhaust. That's what Phreak is for.

[Sebas007]

Just got a message that my new MAFci unit is being made - so mine will be Fresh from the Oven when I get it! Not one of those stale units that has been sitting on the shelves for weeks! LOL!!

HAHAHA !

Your MAFci unit is moulded from my car since it's a '06 too
Hope that you'll enjoy the fresh from oven pipe !!

Hey down2thec, I think Midas and Phreakout are the exhaust men !!
Also....what's is the meaning of "mandril bending"...with my higher intelligence (ironic), with the word in its context, I know that is a machine-tool but which one...cuz mandril is a kind of monkey, it makes me confuse !?!

I'm learning slowly but surely your language

[PhreakdOut]

Mandrel bending means the pipe is bent with a set of mandrel balls (around 4-6 depending on depth of bends) on the inside of the pipe. The balls support the pipe walls while the pipe is bent to keep the shape. Normally, the conventional bending starts crushing the pipe on the inside of the bend before the pipe wraps around the punch die. You could support the pipe throughout the bend but this is slow and tooling is much more expensive. The critical are when crushing starts is behind the pressure die. Support this area and the bend holds it's shape.



You've probably seen cheap prebent pipes at the local AutoBone or places like that. The inside bend will be crushed and have rib like shapes inside the bend. The rib shapes are part of the punch die's shape and it's intended to control material flow inside that bend. Slightly less crushing and much less chance of cracking or tearing of the material. These are empty bent without mandrels. Much cheaper and faster in production. Besides, who needs mandrel bent pipes on a 1985 Reliant K car?

The are other means to bend pipe without mandrels. I met up with this one man operation in Okazaki, Japan who was making custom headers and full exhaust for a Lamborghini Diablo. He uses fine grain river sand as his mandrel. He takes a pipe and welds a cap to one end. Fills the pipe with sand and packs it down. Then he caps the other end. He'll clamp the pipe horizontally in a vise and heat up the bend area with a torch. Then he uses a long rod attached to the outlet end and wraps the pipe around a punch radius fixed next to the vise. Ugh! It's a lot of work trying to get around mandrel bending equipment. For tight bends he'll pie cut the pieces and weld together.

[Sebas007]

Thanks !! Fully appreciated !

[Down2TheC]

ps. Sorry about the spelling... I always do that. MENDREL

[Sebas007]

No problemo Mike !

Now come the time to ask to people if they would really interested to a Y-pipe made by CP-e for us ?? The price may be set by someone who may evaluate the price of other Y-pipe and consider that the Solara is way more rare then a Civic. My goal here to simulating the real interest on the product. If we may bring like 10 names at least, maybe it will help a lot to do some pressure to CP-e to built it.

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Has anyone actually compared the injen to the cp-E, Just curious?