EEK! Carboy (http://www.carboyracing.com) wanted to charge me $120 to install a Y Pipe and another $50 to throw on my cat. converter. Do they think im so newbie ricer who doesnt know how easy it is to install with the right tools?! Does anyone know of any shops in Houston (preferably the Sugarland/Missouri City area) where I can get this installed for a resonable price? Thanks!

 

yeah thats a rip! just have a shop loosen the bolts for you and do it yourself. Just get lots of extensions.

 

thats about how much i payed lol

 

i got 2 qutoes for $60 within .5 miles of each other

 

wow thats good. I wish some of these ricer shops would be nice and more accomodating. Instead of trying to rip us off. :X

 

got mines installed for 20 bucks, its just a few nuts and bolts. if you have access to some air tools you can do it yourself.

 

lol know any places in houston that will do it for $20 for me??

 

I just got so tired of screwing around with the bolts (spent a good 6-8 hours and could only get the header bolts off, couldn't move the cat bolts at all even with a foot and a half breaker bar) that I just took it to a shop and paid $120. I could have paid a bit less (around 90-100) but at that point it was the decision between a good job with no rattles or a cheaper job from a worse shop risk extra rattles/leaks. It took them 2 and a half hours to get the fit perfect but in the end I have no rattles at all and if I ever have a problem they'll fix it for free.

 

payed 40 for mine to be installed.. i would have done it but i have no air tools. nor jack stands

but the good thing is that here in alabama, there is no emissions test

 

I am paying $80 for installation of my y-pipe and for them to build the rest of my b-pipe; i have the cat converter and some piping.

 

it's not hard.... As far as special tools? It's just sockets, and extentions. JDMMAX and me knocked they y-pipe in a couple hours, and we were takin out time.

 

I just did it myself. I did have to pay a guy $5 to take the bolts on the cat off though. Here in miami installations for stuff is pretty cheap. I paid $150 to get my whole suspension installed and new rotors and pads installed.

 

Do it yourself, man. It is easy.
You don't need to take it to a shop to get the bolts cut off. Just buy some rust penetrating spray from AutoZone and then go out there and spray it on all the bolts and take a hammer and tap lightly on all sides of the bolts and then spray again. Repeat this process if necessary until you can get the bolts off. I did that, and then came back a couple of hours later, and was able to get the bolts right off.

That is what I would suggest.

 

OMG $120+ for installation? u gotta be kidding me...

skinny me and my skinny fob friend took about 4 hours with some music and chinese noodles. we were patient and used common sense. we both pull like a **** on all those 2 14mm cats. and then we pulled like **** on all other 14mm bolts. if it won't come off, we spray and pray, chill aside, eat noodle and rice, get back to work. we had fun...

btw... $120 is like 5tanks+ of gas. 240 tacos at jack in the box... man u guys are missing out

 

Now that is alot of Tacos

 

Bring it to me here in Az, and I'll charge you 20 bucks
If I were you. I would do it my self. Y pipe is very easy to install. Just get some Pebble Blaster from Autozone. Sprayed all the bolts with it, leave it there for like 20 minutes and start removing stuff.
doesn't sound that. does it?

 

True, I might just do it myself. Whats the best spray to use to get those bolts off? (my car has never seen snow so i dont have to worry about rusting, i think)

 

Any type of anti-sieze spray....rust penetrating spray(same as anti-seize) or what optimus said. They are all pretty much the same.

 

it took me f 4 hours. But I did it my self. The bolts that held the y-pipe and the cat were rusted 2 gether so I had to take the whole y-pipe and the cat off as one piece. I also had 2 drill the bolts out. After alot of cussing I had it off. Then a week later my clutch went out.

 

Do it yourself. By far the hardest part is getting rusted bolts loose, so just get some spray from a local auto place and let it soak in for a while. Save your money for more mods.

 

Well doing it yourself CAN be easy, up here in MN we see alot of heavy winters and that means ALOT of salt. Even having a 99, the cat bolts wouldnt come off, one of them HAD to be cut off. Not to mention I lost the gasket going fromthe ypipe to the cat, so I got a gap there and its loud as *** right now. So either Ill have it welded together (cat + ypipe connection) or spend money and wait for a new gasket. Even with the big a$$ gap, I still notice a improve in the top end performance, this thing pulls like a ****, cant wait to seal up the huge leak and test it out!

 

Worst case scenario, like BlueC said is that the bolts that connect the cat to the Y pipe are rusted away to nubs and no amount of penetrating spray or anti seize will get them off, as they aren't even shaped like a nut and bolt anymore, they are just blobs of rusted metal. That's what happened to me. Sooo.....

You take it to a muffler shop and pay them $20 to cut those bolts off with a cutting torch, and install new bolts in their place. then you drive home, jack the car up, and install it yourself. There are 3 bolts connecting each Y pipe primary to the manifolds for a total of 6 bolts there, then the 2 brand new bolts that you just had the muffler shop install between the Ypipe and cat, and if you are putting on a new cat or test pipe there will be 2 more bolts between the cat and test pipe (you should have these cut off as well as they are likely in the same condition as the Y pipe/cat bolts are). Grand total is a maximum of 10 bolts, all of which are common sizes, and the entire process should take a maximum of 2 hours, and that's if the 6 bolts connecting the Y pipe to the manifold are really really tough to get off. You could concievably have it done in like 30 minutes with hand tools, after paying to have the cat bolts cut off.

 

wow u guys are lucky i paid $150 to have mine installed. Thats because almost all of my bolts were rusted on, 4 on the headers had to be cut and both on the cat.

 

Go to your local NAPA or AutoZone and see if they have PB Blaster. Works like a charm.

 

Yea all my $hit is connected now. Man, my exhaust sounds nice, not to mention all my power is back that was robbed from the leaks. It turns out the biggest leak was from the second collecter, i had 1/3 nuts on there, so ibought some new ones and its all good now. It was worth the hours of painful labor!

 

do it yourself...just like everyone says. I did mine in under 5 hours. It took forever for me to find a way to screw off the inside bolt to the second pipe of the y-pipe. Ohannon7 and I did his in about 2 hours. Once you what to do it's easy to do.

 

i paid 40. call any exhaust shop. anything above 60 is highway robbery.

 

do it urself and buy some other mods with the $170 saved.

took about 3 hrs to do by myself

 

thats a total rip off, grab a phone book and look up a local muffler shop. I got mine done for 20 bucks.

 

dude it takes an hour or maybe two at the most its really easy with extentions and swivals and a can of wd-40. do it while its hot and it will work out much better

 

I installed it myself a few weeks ago. (Y pipe, high flow cat, and short shifter) It was easy! Well kinda, i have a rattle problem i must fix.

 

ypipe,test pipt, catback ---cost me 85 dollars and an exhaust shop, check with maw and paw first ..