Anybody have an SLS test pipe?
 

Yeah so I just bought a SLS Test pipe off E-bay, seemed like a good deal 139.99-shipped. Please share you experience with install, impressions after install, etc.

MAZDA SPEED 3 TEST PIPE MS3 MAZDASPEED SPEED3 TESTPIPE:eBay Motors (item 130334456093 end time Oct-02-09 15:15:51 PDT)

lmao. who ever heard of a an exhaust pipe cracking? maybe a manifold. if you can wait, i would pick up a used quality piece. i got one for $120.

I used quality piece? Why is the SLS not a quality piece? It's high temp ceramic coated. Plus I heard the CS pipe leaks and has fitmit issues,etc.

ive heard the same "fitment/leaks" for the SLS

So it's not a quality piece and has had issues with fitment/ leakage... lol, looks like I found myself a winner!

I'll let you guys know how it goes....

Dont buy a cheap stainless one? WTF that small length of stainless alone is probably $70. Why ceramic coat that part I dunno? Maybe to hide the fact it could be mild steel? Let us know how it works out. Good deal if it doesnt leak. I've run both CS and SU. The new CS design is ala SU design which seems to work best.

I'm not sure, the only thing I can think of is maybe it helps keep with durability and exhaust temps down? But yeah it's not like a really technical piece or anything so as long as it fits and doesn't break it should be okay... I hope. I drove my buddy Zaks (240mazspd3) car that has a race pipe and love it so I just had to get on.

getting ready to pull the trigger myself on the ebay pipe ///// interested in replys.

I bought the SpeedAction test pipe. It's stainless and was well made. No fitment issues other than having to trim the inner diameter of the lead gasket they supplied with it, but if I had to do it again knowing that, I'd just get one from Mazda. Not sure why their's didn't fit over the factory downpipe. Other than that, it's a good buy. I'm not so sure about the ceramic coated one above. That just means it's most likely painted steel tubing, which means the inside of it will rust. I doubt it's coated on the inside too and with the heat, the coating probably won't last anyway. I'd stick with SS when it comes to the exhaust.

If youve been on these forums for any length of time you should know just about every vendor for the ms3/6 since it is a small community. That being said Ive never heard or sls and would stay away from it. Ebay is a good source for name brands at a discount price, not x brand parts though.

dont know about the SLS but i have heard nothing but good things about the Speedaction TP


sorry but thats far from true. there are many off brandproducts on Ebay that are great. lots of off brand products off ebay end up being carbon copies of name brand products. so im not sure where you are getting that from.

you just have to sort that bad ebay products from the good ones.

i have ebay springs on my car. and have had them for 16k miles without any issues.

some of the Ebay tp's are great. the ebay dp is great which is a carbon copy of CPE's DP, etc

if its a carbon copy why are people having fitment issues? Im a firm believer in you have to pay to play. If the test pipe fits great, but if your going to cheap out on it why not go to a muffler shop having a steel test pipe made and ceramic coat it. Out the door it would cost you 50-70. The reason some of these products cost more may be, because they use stainless steel parts, welds, and actually know how to weld too.

How do you determine whats a quality x brand ebay product or not? Im for one am tired of being the guinea pig, so I save my money and buy a quality product that holds a warrentee that will actually be honored.

Who would take care of you or your car if your ebay springs crapped out and caused an accident?

Okay again, how is the sls test pipe not a quality product? It is a name brand SLS PERFORMANCE

Website: http://www.slsperformance.com/slsp/
Even PG carries it : http://www.protegegarage.com/product...oducts_id=1413 $179.99
They got a forum out as well: http://www.slsperformance.com/forum/default.asp

i said that some ebay brand products end up being carbon copies of name brand ones. i didnt say all.

you determine it by purchasing it and using it. time will tell how it holds up. so thats how you determine whether its quality or not.

thats why you allow other people to be the guinea pigs and await their impressions of something instead of being the first to give something a try

and how many name brand products have taken a crap? plenty. so its not about name at the end of the day, its about quality

Car Insurance.

Do you think companies like Eibach or H&R will give two shits about what happens if you use their springs?

If the world worked that way, then cobb would be going out of business with replacing MS3 engines due to their shitty Cobb AP tunes.

Epic.

trust me that gasket is waaaaaay cheaper from corksport i think mazda wanted 45 or 50 dollars for it

A test pipe shouldn't cost $200+. It's a friggen $35-40 piece of stainless tubing with two flanges welded to it. You can buy a whole cat-back exhaust for $500 that actually has a few bends, a muffler and an exhaust tip. There's not much R&D/labor that goes into making a test pipe.

have you installed the TP eric

Not here yet but you better believe when it arrives my ass will be under the car installing that shit A.S.A.P. lol! Can't wait!!

i used to live by sls performance and i bought one and installed for 90 bucks. like 3 months later the hanger broke off and took a piece of the test pipe off with it.

Wow! On your speed3? How bad can a piece of pipe be?? There's no "hanger" on this piece that I can tell, just a pipe with flanges at the ends. You guys are scaring me lol!

yeah on my speed 3, look at the corksport test pipe, it has hangers on it and thats what broke on the sls one

The sls DOESN'T have hangers though, or if it does why not shown in the photo?

I had an SLS test pipe and never had a problem with it. No leaks. I sold it when I got my Cobb DP.

dude i have a sls test pipe and it has hangers, i dont know what to tell you but MINE does

I just put on the newly revised Corksport about two week ago. I thought the fitment was very good and no leaks so far. It was 149 shipped when I got it. So far I'm real happy with it.

Were you happy with the performance?

no hangers on my sls tp. been running it for ~1 yr and have had zero issues. only issue i had was the donut gasket did not mate up to my cpe cb. and yes...i'm happy with the performance. :)

Anyone else have feedback on test pipe without hangers? I was gonna by the ebay pipe and it definately doesn't have hangers.....

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Yes. I could feel and hear a difference.

Not to change the subject or anything but regarding ebay, I saw a guy selling a PTP PCV turbo smoking washer thing. It didn't sell at $25/free shipping so he re-listed it at $10. With $18 for shipping.

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Thanks for the quote though. Not that I don't value Speedn3's response, just looking to here what others without hangers think.... You should to if your'e buying the piece.

Yeah some people try to be sneaky about shit, got to be careful and that's anywhere not just e-bay.

I posted SLS a question on the ebay website and this ia the answer I got... I truely feel a ceramic coated pipe is better because the coating will keep in the heat and heated gasses flow better. frig it I am buying one too!!!

We are the original builders of the speed3 test pipe. All others are copied from our design. We have been building them since the first speed 3 was introduced.
There are no hangers & no need for gaskets. Other products with gaskets simply mean they do not have the correct flanges or sockets.

We use a ball & socket style fittings the socket fits the upper stock gasket and the ball will fit in the cat back socket just like the stock gasket would. These kind of exhaust joints have been used for years on vehicles like the ford mustang along with many others.

Thank you for your questions and happy bidding.

Eric Prince
CEO; SLS Performance

Looks like mine will be here this Friday so I'll post a review of the experience soon after.

Yea MAN and let me know the size bolts you went with on the cat back connection. I have always used copper hi heat form a gasket from permatex on some exhaust connections, it's good stuff!!! You are running a stock MS3 exhaust now , Is that a correct statement
MS3077 !!!

^ Yes stock exhaust

fitment might not be a big deal , but the longevity is in question. let us know if its coated on the inside. even if it is, it wont last as long as stainless. good luck on the install

The way people are unloading these cars, Longevity shouldn't be of one's concern..:ban: