Straight pipe
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I'm chiming in just to put my final input as help because this has gone nowhere for a while and will end here.
With the SXT the power driver seat was an option, and evidently yours did not have that option. Once you remove the seat from your vehicle, you will see the connectors are different (yes yours has a connector factory). You will have to also add a new relay in the fuse panel located on the side of your dash. Start by this (see picture below):
In your current connector you have 12v power leading to the seat already thru the seatbelt reminder so you can just use a volt-meter and find which wire is carrying current, splice into that wire and solder a new wire to carry the power to the new connector, which you will have to get off the donor car.
Really, it's not that hard but will be minorly involving, so it's not a quick 20 minute project for the at home DIY mechanic.
With the SXT the power driver seat was an option, and evidently yours did not have that option. Once you remove the seat from your vehicle, you will see the connectors are different (yes yours has a connector factory). You will have to also add a new relay in the fuse panel located on the side of your dash. Start by this (see picture below):
In your current connector you have 12v power leading to the seat already thru the seatbelt reminder so you can just use a volt-meter and find which wire is carrying current, splice into that wire and solder a new wire to carry the power to the new connector, which you will have to get off the donor car.
Really, it's not that hard but will be minorly involving, so it's not a quick 20 minute project for the at home DIY mechanic.
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#45
I'm guttin my cat later this week, or replacing it with a piece of pipe and runnin an o2 simulator and just order a Flowmaster 40 series. 3" catback that's dumping right after my rear axle :-) that should sound how I want it too, and give me a slight performance gain
I cut the CAT out because it was clogged, welded a straight pipe, ran a Fastman O2 simulator for the downstream, and had a Flowmaster 40 series muffler with 3" piping all the way from where the CAT was.
As far as dumping after the rear axle, I'd be worried about it heating up my spare tire at an idle because those exhaust fumes do get extremely hot (hotter than normal) with there being more flow because of losing the CAT. At that point you might as well just run it out the back. It sounds the same anyways just less resonance.
#46
Okay let's stop stealing/ thrashing my thread. I like that diagram for the power seats but is the seat belt reminder have voltage with the ignition off? And does anyone have a photo of the connector for the seats? And since I believe the passenger side seat is power also where do I get power for that one?
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#48
Okay let's stop stealing/ thrashing my thread. I like that diagram for the power seats but is the seat belt reminder have voltage with the ignition off? And does anyone have a photo of the connector for the seats? And since I believe the passenger side seat is power also where do I get power for that one?
Here is what your connector currently looks like:
Here is what the new connector on the new power seat will look like:
Last edited by WhiteWidow00; 03-21-2012 at 09:54 AM.