Dual exhaust tailpipes
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I know you said you didn't want anything welded, but my catback was moving around a little bit so i just tacked 2 small spots where each pipe joins that were easily accessible for a grinder. Doesn't take much to grind down two tack welds.
I still have the u-clamps on, but the tack welds stop the pipes from twisting which made my tips keep falling down. With just the u-clamps, you would need to overtighten to hold solid thus crimping the pipes together which makes them hard to pull apart if needed since they are creased into each other.
Just a thought.
$250 for adding to what you have with no tips is steep, especially for mild steel which is all they can bend.
I still have the u-clamps on, but the tack welds stop the pipes from twisting which made my tips keep falling down. With just the u-clamps, you would need to overtighten to hold solid thus crimping the pipes together which makes them hard to pull apart if needed since they are creased into each other.
Just a thought.
$250 for adding to what you have with no tips is steep, especially for mild steel which is all they can bend.
Last edited by dirtydog; Mar 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM.
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When I originally did my cat back in the summer of '04 I wanna say I had about $150 in it. Flowmaster 50, had a shop bend me the pipes from the muffler back and bought the tips. Now granted this was almost 8 years ago and I did all the labor.
When I re-did the system I bought a set of pacesetters, plain stainless and had a local shop ceramic coat them. Cost of the headers was $449. The reason I went to a local shop for the coating was you couldn't get stainless with factory ceramic coat from Pacesetter, only the plain steel came coated. Now I don't even see where Pacesetter is making stainless anymore? The shop cost for coating was $175 but it's a nice, thick coat, inside and out.
So I was at $625 for the headers. I had about $50 in various adapters and pipe, $35 in the Y pipe I had my local shop make. I did have my local shop cut and weld back in my cats after I finished even though I did the non-fouler trick and had no CEL, but I felt I lost a bit of low end torque and the Flowmaster droned REAL bad after the headers. It always droned some, but was a LOT worse. The cats going back in got me most of my low end back, but the FM still droned pretty bad. They charged me $75 to cut and weld the cats back in, I extended the O2 wires myself.
About a year later I received a NIB Cherry Bomb muffler for free (a perk of my position I guess, LOL) and cut the FM out and welded the CB in. Needed an adapter because the CB was 7" shorter than the FM - cost was $12 for a 12" flanged pipe.
So I guess to date I have about $800 in my exhaust over the years of doing and re-doing it. I don't think that's too bad for long tube headers, a better "Y" and a kick *** Cherry Bomb Extreme going to a pair of stainless tips, especially seeing some of you guys paying around $650 for just a cat back...
When I re-did the system I bought a set of pacesetters, plain stainless and had a local shop ceramic coat them. Cost of the headers was $449. The reason I went to a local shop for the coating was you couldn't get stainless with factory ceramic coat from Pacesetter, only the plain steel came coated. Now I don't even see where Pacesetter is making stainless anymore? The shop cost for coating was $175 but it's a nice, thick coat, inside and out.
So I was at $625 for the headers. I had about $50 in various adapters and pipe, $35 in the Y pipe I had my local shop make. I did have my local shop cut and weld back in my cats after I finished even though I did the non-fouler trick and had no CEL, but I felt I lost a bit of low end torque and the Flowmaster droned REAL bad after the headers. It always droned some, but was a LOT worse. The cats going back in got me most of my low end back, but the FM still droned pretty bad. They charged me $75 to cut and weld the cats back in, I extended the O2 wires myself.
About a year later I received a NIB Cherry Bomb muffler for free (a perk of my position I guess, LOL) and cut the FM out and welded the CB in. Needed an adapter because the CB was 7" shorter than the FM - cost was $12 for a 12" flanged pipe.
So I guess to date I have about $800 in my exhaust over the years of doing and re-doing it. I don't think that's too bad for long tube headers, a better "Y" and a kick *** Cherry Bomb Extreme going to a pair of stainless tips, especially seeing some of you guys paying around $650 for just a cat back...
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Sadly, these "perks" don't come very often, maybe once or twice a year and rarely are they high dollar perks.
Hell, I don't think I've even ever got paid for helping anyone with their trucks. I've built about a dozen CAIs for guys either right here in my driveway or up at the farm, have done a half dozen welded exhausts and countless little fixes for guys or at least diagnosed problems for them and my usual fee is a case of beer, LOL...
Hell, I don't think I've even ever got paid for helping anyone with their trucks. I've built about a dozen CAIs for guys either right here in my driveway or up at the farm, have done a half dozen welded exhausts and countless little fixes for guys or at least diagnosed problems for them and my usual fee is a case of beer, LOL...
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Magnaflow is a very nice fitting system. I first purchased a dual catback set-up for my mustang. There were 8 pre-bent pieces not inclusing the two mufflers. They fit pretty good to a different manufacturers X-pipe that I had. They did need minor elbow tweaking, but I later installed a Mag X-pipe and they were 100% perfect fit.
My Mag catback on my truck was a mere perfect fit. It was only 3-pieces, but I've seen many inferior catbacks that were a nightmare with just 2-pieces.
Mag is a nice product and worth every penny. it should be a piece of cake to install, AFter you get what you have off(thats the hardest part usually)
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I'm piecing it together I have a si/ do already bolted in that's the sale dementions as the 14" body magnaflow just worried these pipes say up to model year 03. old exhaust is already off was easy truck only has 27k on it
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Also, 02-05 5.7L's have different pipe dimensions than newer year 3rd gen's and the y-pipe is in a slightly diff location. The general bends after muffler are the same. The frame and bolt locations should be same as well.
Hope all works for you.