What exactly is going on with my exhaust here?
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What exactly is going on with my exhaust here?
Purchased an '02 SS last week and she sounds real nice. It came with the SLP CME from the factory and all I've been able to tell so far is that there is an SLP loudmouth attached as well - it's too damn cold to go crawling underneath the car!
I snapped a few shots can someone tell me what's going on here? It looks like where the Cat is supposed to be theres a Y-pipe, which goes all the way up to the exhaust manifolds (which I believe are stock)?
Anybody fill me in here as to what the previous owner did? (not that I'm complaining!)
Here is the CME (stock setup):
Going into the loudmouth:
What's going on here? You can see the heat shield - isn't this where the cat is supposed to be?:
I snapped a few shots can someone tell me what's going on here? It looks like where the Cat is supposed to be theres a Y-pipe, which goes all the way up to the exhaust manifolds (which I believe are stock)?
Anybody fill me in here as to what the previous owner did? (not that I'm complaining!)
Here is the CME (stock setup):
Going into the loudmouth:
What's going on here? You can see the heat shield - isn't this where the cat is supposed to be?:
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Maybe - but that would mean an O2 simulator lies somewhere? No SES light...
I really need to take a closer look at the whole thing but its like 15 degrees out.
I really need to take a closer look at the whole thing but its like 15 degrees out.
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Will do, first thing tom afternoon.
Let me ask this - where, on a stock Camaro SS, do the pipes branch off into each side of the exhaust manifolds? It can't be down near the cat...
Let me ask this - where, on a stock Camaro SS, do the pipes branch off into each side of the exhaust manifolds? It can't be down near the cat...
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This would be a system with long tube headers and an offroad y-pipe=meaning no cats. The cats would be up close to the engine tucked into where the headers are coming out of if you had cats.
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http://image.highperformancepontiac....am+exhaust.jpg
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Thanks man!
So stock, the Y pipe wouldn't extend that far down? So I'll assume that not only the loudmouth was added, but some new pipes more towards the engine?
So stock, the Y pipe wouldn't extend that far down? So I'll assume that not only the loudmouth was added, but some new pipes more towards the engine?
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Thanks guys!
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Makes sense... the muffler that came with the CME is gone (crossflow) and the SLP resonator was put in place... so I'm assuming he had to run some custom piping to match up with the existing CME pieces.
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Looks like you have already figured it out - your car never had a cat at the location in question (there were only two from the factory - one directly off of each exhaust manifold), and that looks exactly like a Loudmouth setup, which would not be hard to use with the factory CME. You can pretty much run any exhaust with those tips - I even have duals all the way out the back with those tips.