well i don't hate my y-pipe i just hate the installation. i got my pipe in the mail this morning so i ran to sears today just to buy a $5 14mm deep socket and a $10 angle thingy for my ratchet. well it takes some time but i finally get the 6 nuts up front off and i just have the 2 that go to the converter, well i get one off and the last one is stuck like a mothe****er and i ****ing strip it so im gonna have to take it to my shop tomorow morning and have them torch it off or something. my question is will it be allright to drive like 3 blocks with just the one bolt on there or should i bolt up a couple more? i started it up and moved it like 5 feet and it was loud as hell but it didn't fall off so i thought id be allright to drive it but i dunno. man i was so pumped to get it on tonight but oh well. oh yeah and if i take it to the shop and they get the last bolt off am i going to have to have them put the new pipe on or is there a way i could drive without a y back home to put it on myself? i dunno

 

bolt it back on and have the cat bots replaced....then take it home and finish the install.

 

They make these things that look like normal sockets. They are made in such a way so you can remove stripped bolts. I bought them at Home Depot and have used them 2 times. They really do work great. But if its rusted to hell, maybe torch it yourself?
As for driving it with one bolt... What would happen if the damn thing snaped or something. You could cause an acident. Just put the rest on but dont over tighten them. This may sound stupid but if you use Vaseline (spelling??), it wont let the treds get rusted but at the same time they wont loosen by themselfs.

 

cool thanks guys i'll probably just get up and bolt a few bolts back on tomorow morning and take it to my shop and have them replace my converter bolts and then finish it myself, hopefully i don't run into any more snags

 

damn bro, I have the same problem. the cat messes up the bolts. I need to bring it to the shop too. freakin POS.

 

I've never done this myself, but this may work, assuming all the bolts are the same size:

after the one is stripped, you got five more bolts, at least put back the five bolts when you leave tomorrow, ask to have the stripped one removed, and then return home with the car and five bolts still in there. then remove the five remaining bolts and you've got the pipe off. which y pipe did you get by the way?

 

well i put two more bolts back in and drove it slowly to my shop and they said they could probably get it out and then let me take it home and finish it. i just have to wait till 1:30. i got the warpspeed pipe. hopefully everything works out. and yeah i wish i would have tried to take out the bolts by the cat first but oh well.

 

I stripped mine and my Crapsman bolt out kit did not work either. I had to torch the head of the bolt off, and then use vice grips to screw the stud out!

 

use antiseze on the nuts and bolts during reassembly.

 

well i finally got the y-pipe on and all i know is that my car is LOUD AS HELL, i think i got an exhaust leak but i couldn't find one. i don't even know if it felt that much quicker but i dunno. god it took forever to get the stock one off cuz i didn't see the two bolts between the 2 downpipes, hopefully i feel a difference sometime, else i wish i wouldn't have ****ed with it, now i think i'll hafta put my stock muffler back on

 

as my 80 yo grandpa says if its too loud ur too old

 

well i drove around some more and it sounds like it did the day i had my muffler off, and i have heard about the warpspeed pipe and the rattling noise but mine just does it sometimes and its just when im in first when it shifts the rattling stops, its weird. and i now know the meaning of "bee's in a can" i dunno how im gonna fix it.

 

My warpspeed sucks, and the people there are d!cks

 

fishpony give it a couple of days. The y-pipe needs to be exercised into the car for a while. The noise level will decrease over a period of time. Give it some time...

 

ok cool thats easy enough, thanks for the info

 

i did mine last night with no problems. I even used the stock crush rings cuz WS never sent me any. I knew there was no way to losen the cat bolts so I broke them clean off. I replaced my cat too so the old bolts stayed in the old cat leaving the 's'/'b' pipe ready for new bolts. Trying to get the old bolts out of the cat would bite hard. It was fun and I enjoyed laying under the car for almost 2 hours. I like the new sound too.

 

I don't remember if there is a space to stick a hacksaw in there, but the way you can get exhaust pieces off is to cut the bolt and watch it pop out like ****. Hacksaw is your friend when working with exhaust and suspesion parts.