well i installed my y pipe today, and i think i never had a bigger head ache in my life with this. Well first i unloosened the header to Y bolts and then i TRYED to get the 2 bolts that hold the y and the cat together and they just wouldn't come off, one of the was stripped. So i TRYED cutting it off and i didn't get that far cause the mounting bracket was in the way. Then i unbolted the 2 bolts that connect the cat to the b pipe and i just took the whole thing off the car.
None of the bolts would come loose that connect the y to the cat, so i tried drilling them out......it took me 15 to realize that i was going no where with that so i finaly said fucc it and torched them off.......it was a 5 min job and it went quick. but before i did that i had to cut off the y pipe at the bracket so its easier to work with. After that i had to drill out the remainder of the metal that was melted on the cat bracket and that took me about 20 min. Well after all this everything went smoothly, got the O2 sensors on and got everything back up like it should, and i swear if u don't have air tools for this job ur gonna be fucced trying to do this at ur house with a small wratchet set.
But then again that's what i get for buying a car that comes from Colorado, DAM SALT/RUST.......

But im satisfied with the results, and please don't think that ur gonna get some major HP with this...cause ur not, u can tell the difference but alot of people at the org are like "wow what a difference" and from my point of view its a good increase but nothing big, but it sounds nice with my CAI and my stillen muffler. It sounds deep and nice. i love the growl.

 

Sounds like it went smooth for you :P

 

cool yea mine was a b**** to get off too but wit a lot of wd40 and some elbow grease i eventually got it off. my car was smokin for bout 30 mins burnin up all the wd40 i sprayed on it

 

yea no joke. but now it will be easier to get the b pipe on and my other muffler sence i had to drill out the muffler bolts 2 moths ago.....and that toook years!

 

yea i used P b blaster for the rest of the bolts, but just thoes 2 were a pain sence they were stripped, WTF was a granny(previouse owner) doing under there?!?!?!?

 

enjoy your new mod. thats the next one for me to do . glad it worked out.

 

yea thanx, its just temporary sence im getting the 3" y pipe with the turbo.

 

mine was 12 hours of hell, saws, bloody hands, and solid rust...

still haven't felt anything amazing from it but give it a few days, it seems to get better (at least for me)

 

wow it took me 2 hr and i came out with a few bleeding cut and thats it. at least you got it on tho. it feels good when you do the mods yourself

 

dam right i felt good, i got dirty as fucc and had to take 2 showers, but no cuts or anything like that, and it took me like 2 and half hours with air drills, air hammers, air impact wrench, air die grinder and a torch.

 

lemme guess....u had no air tools available?

 

i had no air tools and it still took me 2 hrs

 

well then u must have had little or no rust on thoes bolts.....i couldn't even see the threads on the bolts they were soooo rusted....and in florida there isn't that much salt as down here.....

 

oh man, i wish you had search, you did the same thing as me, turned out to be the headache of my life, drills and reciprocating saws, ntohignw orks, just got it torched off, what kind of torch did you use nayway?propane? i cut my bolts off and caused a mess of problems paid $30 to torch the bolts off, i wish i did that to begin with

 

atleast yours is connected, I still need to find the gasket or buy a new one. My car sounds like an old 80s car with a rusted exhaust or soemthing. This install is going to take a day or two :\

 

did you reset yoru ecu?

 

nope i just disconnected the battery then connected it back when i was done. no cel when i turned it on and so far still no cel

 

It's good to see you were realistic with the expectations of power. You'll be happy to know over the course of a few days the car will get quicker. It won't be like "whoa, find me a 5.0 to tear up", but it will make you happy in the investment.


Dave