stock cat help

[andrew.brandon]

ok I got my pacesetters on the car but I could not get the stock cat off the old y pipe. I cut the clamp holding it on but it will still not move. also part of the clamp will not come off, was it tack wielded at the factory or is this just a lot of rust causing this. help me please! an open y pipe is LOUD and I go to work at 5am and the neighbors are starting to get pissed lol. and it will probibly be 2 weeks before i have the money to put the catback and new cat on.

[Silverbird2002]

try soaking it with WD40. Waite a few mins and then try. If that doesn't work try tapping all the way around the clap to try to fee it up. If that still doesn't work look for a tack weld and if there is one try to cut it. If none of that works and if you can try heating it up with a torch and see what happens.

[SpeedingFirebird]

"I cut the clamp holding it on but it will still not move."

I had the same problem. First, I "tapped" all around the clamp with an air hammer to break the rust. Then, at the other end of the cat, I beat the bejesus out of cat with the air hammer (hitting the cat so it would pull away from the clamp). This was enough to break the rust bond. Then I had to muscle the cat out. Half a can of PB Blaster helps too.
:cool:

[shenanigans]

mine took some persuasian but I got it off...

my experience has been moving it in a "circular" motion as you pull it comes off more easily.

[ August 10, 2005, 11:46 AM: Message edited by: shenanigans ]

[SpeedingFirebird]

Originally posted by shenanigans:
my experience has been moving it in a "circular" motion as you pull it comes off more easily.

I had to do that as well. That was part of "muscle the cat out".

[kristen]

i believe that they come welded on the y pipe from the factory.

[eric head]

I have a 98 camaro that came with 2 pipes but one hangs lower than the other one and when I checked it out it had like a rubber band or something holding it to make it tight but when I hit a bump I can also hear it rattle whats a good exhaust thats loud like I hear in the sound clip all over this board

[BiH]

Originally posted by kristen:
i believe that they come welded on the y pipe from the factory.

nope

[Perry]

Originally posted by andrew.brandon:
ok I got my pacesetters on the car but I could not get the stock cat off the old y pipe. I cut the clamp holding it on but it will still not move. also part of the clamp will not come off, was it tack wielded at the factory or is this just a lot of rust causing this. help me please! an open y pipe is LOUD and I go to work at 5am and the neighbors are starting to get pissed lol. and it will probibly be 2 weeks before i have the money to put the catback and new cat on.

Leave it the way it is!!! [img]graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]

[eric head]

Just to make sure were on the same page but do these pipes like bend down at the end cuz mine do and have good sound. Since you say leave it stock where can I find some chrome tips that will fit on the end to give it a better look