How-to: Install CP-E Triton Dual Cat-Back
 

Yurtle's New CatBack

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Description:

Looking for a little more out of your 2010+ MazdaSPEED3 exhaust?

Introducing the cp-e™ Triton™ 3" cat back exhaust for the 2nd Generation MazdaSPEED3's.

Featuring a full 3" Stainless Steel mid pipe, two cp-e™ designed resonators, and dual 4" polished exhaust tips; this cat back exhaust will not only improve the breathing of your 2nd gen MazdaSPEED3, it will also give you that aggressive exhaust note you've been looking for!

The cp-e™ Triton cat back exhaust for the 2nd gen MazdaSPEED3 has a very controlled exhaust note. No drone at cruising speeds, yet pronounced and aggressive at wide open throttle.

For those of you who have replaced the extremely restrictive factory downpipe, this 3" cat back will remove the last bottleneck in the exhaust stream; increasing the engines breathing capacity and smoothing out the turbo spool.

All cp-e™ exhausts are made from Super Polished Stainless Steel. The 18g heavy duty stainless piping is mandrel bent and cut on their in-house CNC Bender and CNC Mills. The systems feature custom cast Stainless Flanges, reliable hangers, custom made Stainless Mufflers and polished stainless tips. Everything is TIG welded by hand to get beautiful color and durability in the welds. Designed fully in a CAD environment to guarantee a factory-like fit every-time with great performance gains.


Details
Part #: CPE MMS32DCBEM2
Brand: cpe
Return Policy: Standard Return Policy
Mfgr. Warranty: Limited LIfetime Warranty
Installation Hardware Included: Yes
Piping Coating: No
Piping Flex Joint: No
Piping ID: 3in
Piping Material: 304 Stainless Steel
Piping Taper: No
Tip Material: Stainless Steel
Tip QTY: 2
Tip Size: 4in


As always great packaging and presentation by CP-E.

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You can either do this installation on a lift or with jack stands. Luckily we have a lift here at work which always makes working on cars easier so I opted to take advantage of it for this install.


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To remove the factory catback you'll basically only need a 12mm and 14mm socket and ratcheting wrench.


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Start off by removing the mid chassis brace by removing the 8 12mm bolts. The brace has some hooks on it so you'll have to slide it back before it will drop down and off the car.


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Use your 14mm to remove the nuts from both axleback and midpipe.


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Next you'll disconnect the exhaust hangers and drop the factory system out of the way.


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Here is the car with the factory catback uninstalled.


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Mount up the pretty CP-E axle-back section.


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To install the midpipe, when connecting it to a factory downpipe or factory style you'll need to remove the stock studs and connect using the supplied bolts and washers and reuse the factory springs.


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To connect the axle-back and midpipe you'll need to install the 3rd pipe in the kit that are slip fit connections with clamps.


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After you've connected all the pipes reinstall the chassis brace while ensuring you don't overtorque these bolts.


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Install the tips as the last part. There is a fair amount of adjustment on the tips so that you can either install them flush with the bumper, out further or have them sit tucked under the bumper, really whatever you feel you like best.


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Here is the finished product.


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Don't forget to watch the video we made of the exhaust.



Thanks,
Tanner

I want this exhaust so bad just can't afford it, thanks for the write up!

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Bonus points if you can confirm fitment of this exhaust with a Curt 11383 hitch installed :) I'm on the hunt for a catback that will fit with my hitch.

I just installed this exhaust on my car and I have the extra muffler that you can purchase with this kit, and the exhaust sounds awesome even with the added muffler. So if you have the extra money purchase this exhaust before you buy a different brand.

I had a magnaflow exhaust on my car and was just not aggressive enough for me, so a local nator member was wanting to sell his cause he was going with a different car and I purchased his exhaust and installed yesterday.

First this exhaust sounds way better then the magnaflow, I can not compare it to a corksport, or a few other of the cbe.

Second the quality of this exhaust is great, I had people at the shop I work at complimenting the welding quality on this exhaust, and how the fitment was and even the sound.

I just wish I spent the extra money on the cpe exhaust at first instead of wasting money on the magnaflow

I did some digging around and was unable to come up with a solid answer. I basically was only able to get confirmation from Josh @ CP-E that their system is alot smaller than the factory exhaust so there should be more room to fit a tow hitch if that kit you have works with the factory system. I am sorry I don't have a guaranteed answer on this for you :(.

Tanner

Thinking about hopping on this as well. Do you have a catless DP?
Not sure how it will sound with my catless setup. Hoping its not too damn loud.
Although, I got offered one for $400+ my stock exhaust.

I do have a.catless dp and it sounds great. I do have the added muffler also. Going down the rd there is no drone from the exhaust

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Tanner,

I was checking out the pictures and luckily yes the majority of it is smaller. I think the problem would be the tips though. I wonder since the cp-e tips are removal, if it would be possible to get ones that weren't so big? Here's some pics I had taken of clearance to the stock exhaust, the hitch metal is 1/4"

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OK, thanks for clearing that up.
Not sure if the one for sale has the added muffler or not.

Do you like the sound thus far?

I am loving it. The cpe exhaust sounds like sex coming out of the tail pipe.

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The one we sell on our site does include the added mufflers :)

Let me get some measurements off of mine this week and maybe that will help with the comparison for clearance.

Cool thanks.

I just sent you over a PM with a bunch of images, hopefully we can figure out the fitment for you :).

i purchased this exhaust back in august. nothing but happy with it. did have a little issue getting the flanges together because it seemed the flare was too small for the gasket/donut. but other than that the exhaust is loud, but not too loud and very little drone on the highway. kind of curious to see how itll sound with a catted DP

This is what I have on my car now and I love it. I wanted some good sounds without it sounding nasty and dirty. I got the cpe turbo back setup. Catted DP, no resonator, just the cat and the mufflers that come on this exhaust. Sounds awesome! Very high quality parts.

Does anyone have a sound clip of this with a catless DP?

Nice

@ThatGuy; send this to yourself so we can reference it when we go to install this bad boy!

installation is a breeze, did the downpipe, catback, and plug change all in 4 hours. If you did exhaust alone might take you an hour and that includes getting the car in the air

Hopefully we'll have more media/sound clips of this system available in the next few months. If I come across anything in the mean time I'll make sure and let you know.

Sorry to dig up a thread that is over a year old, I just purchased a used cp- cbe and sure test pipe...can I reuse the factory donut gasket between the test pipe and mid pipe or do I need an aftermarket one or do I need to contact cpe?

Someone may be able to chime in but I would just call them. I had a question about their rmm and they had pdf directions emailed to me within 5 minutes.

I am selling my wheel/tire package I had on the TDI... Then this is being purchased.:headbang:

So it's been a while since OP posted the instructions, and the photos are no longer there... I just purchased (or will be by this weekend) a used one and could really use the photos to help with the install.

Use Google Chrome or Safari. This exhaust isn't hard to install. Unbolt the stock one and bolt on the CPE one. No tune required in response to your other post, it is a sound modification nothing more, albeit a fantastic one in my opinion, but too loud for others. You should hear how loud it is with the CPE catless downpipe too, holy shit loud, but it is awesome @ WOT and I love it!

Hey thanks for your feedback.

Does anyone have any tips for getting the studs out of the stock cat ?

Heat it up!

I’ll give it a try and just double nut it yeh? I believe the nut on the back of the flange is welded ?

double nut is the way to save thread yes or vise grip when it is a throw away stud

It is throw away but just wouldn’t budge with vice grips


Update: in case this happens to anyone else, it took all of 10 min to remove the cat from the down pipe and heat up the studs with a propane torch. Studs came out clean and easy that way.

you weren't able to heat them in place ?
A propane torch and if you need a little extra heat, the yellow can (Map-pro) saved me few times from the needs of a full torch set.

I used a propane torch but was on jack stands so didn’t want to lay under there upside with a torch