Review Tanabe Medalion Mid-pipe and Y-pipe
11-24-2010, 02:17 AM
#1
Tanabe Medalion Mid-pipe and Y-pipe
Well after waiting for what seemed like forever Tanabe finally came out with a new mid-pipe and y-pipe to go along with their axle back to make a full cat back exhaust. I first want to thank Nick at THMotorsports for hooking me up with a good deal on everything and even having the mid-pipe drop shipped straight from Tanabe.
First off the quality. Just like the axle back the quality of the Tanabe mid and y-pipe is outstanding. Perfect welds and a nice finish on everything. The fitment with just the axle backs was absolutly 100% perfect. With the new mid and y-pipe it's probably about 98% with only a few little things that only I would notice. The biggest one being the tips aren't quite perfectly centered anymore. I think the problem with this was caused by the cross bar they put on the end of the new mid pipe. I'm not sure on the reasoning for it, but it makes links the system together making it a little harder to adjust everything. Other than that everything else was perfect.
Installation was fairly easy and straight forward. I had the car up on a lift so it was a little easier but it wasn't too dificult of a task to begin with. Total install time took about 1 hour. Just about everything I needed was provided including extremely nice high quality gaskets, along with bolts and nuts. The only thing is it came with 2 bolts less than what I was needing. That was fine though since I just put HFC on a few months ago and just reused the cat to y-pipe bolts from them. Overall everything went on super easy and without a hitch.
Now for the most important thing, the sound. Keep in mind I already had the Tanabe axle back with Ichiba y-pipe and berk HFC so I wasn't expecting things to change much to begin with. After adding the HFC they made things a little higher pitched and more exotic sounding. With the new mid-pipe and y-pipe and made it a little louder and gave it a more deeper throatier sound which I really like. Its not near as deep sounding as Fast Intentions but it still sounds really nice. Startup and Idle have a nice throaty sound to them now. Lower RPM's have a nice aggressive rumble and WOT really screams.
Overall I am extremely satisfied with this setup and think Tanabe has done a really great job with this exhaust. Even without the HFC it should still sound amazing.
Here are some pics from the install along with a few sound clips.
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First off the quality. Just like the axle back the quality of the Tanabe mid and y-pipe is outstanding. Perfect welds and a nice finish on everything. The fitment with just the axle backs was absolutly 100% perfect. With the new mid and y-pipe it's probably about 98% with only a few little things that only I would notice. The biggest one being the tips aren't quite perfectly centered anymore. I think the problem with this was caused by the cross bar they put on the end of the new mid pipe. I'm not sure on the reasoning for it, but it makes links the system together making it a little harder to adjust everything. Other than that everything else was perfect.
Installation was fairly easy and straight forward. I had the car up on a lift so it was a little easier but it wasn't too dificult of a task to begin with. Total install time took about 1 hour. Just about everything I needed was provided including extremely nice high quality gaskets, along with bolts and nuts. The only thing is it came with 2 bolts less than what I was needing. That was fine though since I just put HFC on a few months ago and just reused the cat to y-pipe bolts from them. Overall everything went on super easy and without a hitch.
Now for the most important thing, the sound. Keep in mind I already had the Tanabe axle back with Ichiba y-pipe and berk HFC so I wasn't expecting things to change much to begin with. After adding the HFC they made things a little higher pitched and more exotic sounding. With the new mid-pipe and y-pipe and made it a little louder and gave it a more deeper throatier sound which I really like. Its not near as deep sounding as Fast Intentions but it still sounds really nice. Startup and Idle have a nice throaty sound to them now. Lower RPM's have a nice aggressive rumble and WOT really screams.
Overall I am extremely satisfied with this setup and think Tanabe has done a really great job with this exhaust. Even without the HFC it should still sound amazing.
Here are some pics from the install along with a few sound clips.
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Last edited by wakeboardr116; 11-24-2010 at 08:42 AM.
11-24-2010, 08:07 AM
#6
Sounds good! Yeah seems very high pitched vs my Fast Int but you have HFC, nice right up though. I always enjoy reading and watching independent reviews. Nice sound Fit and Finish!
Boosah^^^^ it's gonna sound smooth w out the HFC , I loved Tanabe W mufflers alone, a full Catback should def Amp up this system a Lil which is all you ever will need.
Thanks for sharing:0
Boosah^^^^ it's gonna sound smooth w out the HFC , I loved Tanabe W mufflers alone, a full Catback should def Amp up this system a Lil which is all you ever will need.
Thanks for sharing:0
11-24-2010, 08:20 AM
#7
Sounds good! Yeah seems very high pitched vs my Fast Int but you have HFC, nice right up though. I always enjoy reading and watching independent reviews. Nice sound Fit and Finish!
Boosah^^^^ it's gonna sound smooth w out the HFC , I loved Tanabe W mufflers alone, a full Catback should def Amp up this system a Lil which is all you ever will need.
Thanks for sharing:0
Boosah^^^^ it's gonna sound smooth w out the HFC , I loved Tanabe W mufflers alone, a full Catback should def Amp up this system a Lil which is all you ever will need.
Thanks for sharing:0
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11-24-2010, 10:35 AM
#11
Yeah it was warmed up before. There should be some idle revs in the first clip somewhere.
I don't have any pics of the tips right now. You really can't even notice anything too much. Just the right side tip is barely off center to the right.
I don't have any pics of the tips right now. You really can't even notice anything too much. Just the right side tip is barely off center to the right.
