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Originally posted by BLLDOGG: do you guys know if there is some type of way that i could know if my y-pipe is ****ed??? maybe some type of number or code in it or any info i might have recived?
i emailed pacesetter and told them that i got mine from the group purchase and said i havent installed them yet. i told them that u can either send me the part just incase i do have problems or they can take on the expense of reinstalling my exhaust manifolds if they were actually short. I also, told them that i cannot wait around for the part. So i got an email back today telling me that they will send me the part
since there is so many problems with this y pipe, why not throw a H-pipe on there it would make it sound cleaner any way...but out of curiousity is there any performance gains from putting an h pipe on as opposed to a y?
Well everyone, I took matters into my own hands, as I didn't want to cut up my Y Pipe. After cranking out idea after idea, my Dad and I settled on a plan. We took a nice sized block of wood (roughly 4" cube) and drilled a 2 1/4" diameter hole in the center of it. We next cut the block in half, cutting the hole in the center of the block in half.
What we did, is create a Jig to hold the Y-Pipe, so we could clamp the pipe in the vice and not crush the tube of the Y-Pipe. After looking at Linxs' pictures, and see how my pipe would need to be changed to fit, we decided to take a different approach to bending the pipe. Instead of bending the pipe in the middle, we decided to just open the bend at the end of the driver side of the Y-Pipe a few degrees. So, we clamped the very end of that side of the pipe, in the jig, in the vice. We clamped it so the rest of the Y-Pipe was going side ways. Then we had Me, my Dad and my Brother all pull on the pipe. After a few minutes of really pulling on the thing, and a few breaks to test fit, we finaly got it to fit just perfect.
So screw you Pacestter, I'm not cutting up my Y-Pipe, and I didn't pay to have a shop do it.
I'll post pics a big later tonight, right got my engine hanging from the chain hoist right now, I'm changing the rear main.
Originally posted by Clark: So everyone who has the headers can request this part for free?
I think only if you have fitment problems. I can see no real reason why you'd want it otherwise, as it means cutting up your Y Pipe.
Originally posted by Distephano: Well everyone, I took matters into my own hands, as I didn't want to cut up my Y Pipe. After cranking out idea after idea, my Dad and I settled on a plan. We took a nice sized block of wood (roughly 4" cube) and drilled a 2 1/4" diameter hole in the center of it. We next cut the block in half, cutting the hole in the center of the block in half.
What we did, is create a Jig to hold the Y-Pipe, so we could clamp the pipe in the vice and not crush the tube of the Y-Pipe. After looking at Linxs' pictures, and see how my pipe would need to be changed to fit, we decided to take a different approach to bending the pipe. Instead of bending the pipe in the middle, we decided to just open the bend at the end of the driver side of the Y-Pipe a few degrees. So, we clamped the very end of that side of the pipe, in the jig, in the vice. We clamped it so the rest of the Y-Pipe was going side ways. Then we had Me, my Dad and my Brother all pull on the pipe. After a few minutes of really pulling on the thing, and a few breaks to test fit, we finaly got it to fit just perfect.
So screw you Pacestter, I'm not cutting up my Y-Pipe, and I didn't pay to have a shop do it.
I'll post pics a big later tonight, right got my engine hanging from the chain hoist right now, I'm changing the rear main.
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Clark: So everyone who has the headers can request this part for free?
I think only if you have fitment problems. I can see no real reason why you'd want it otherwise, as it means cutting up your Y Pipe. </font>[/QUOTE]Well I don't want to start installing and then find out I need that piece. Then wait for a week with my car down while it gets here. I'd rather have that piece here incase I do need it. If I don't, I can toss it.
Seeing how you were able to bent it, I might try that too. I'll drive up there and have you do it if I can't. [img]smile.gif[/img]
i have been talking to the people were i got my headers and they are sending me my pipe next week. they just finished making the not armor coated ones. they will begin with the coated ones tomorrow.
Originally posted by Distephano: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Clark:
Seeing how you were able to bent it, I might try that too. I'll drive up there and have you do it if I can't. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Ahhh. I thought you already had them installed. Thats why I couldn't figure out why you would want the piece. </font>[/QUOTE]I might try tomorrow since I have a 4 day weekend.
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