welding the y-pipe?..help?
12-21-2007, 02:59 AM
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welding the y-pipe?..help? hey ..so we just fnished installing my lt headers tonight..took us about 8 hours but we ran into a problem..i bought my cat-back last month thinking i wasnt going to get headers for awhile ..and i had it welded..bad mistake..
i couldnt put my off road y pipe cause i couldnt take off the stock one ..so tomorrow morning im going to the muffler shop to get my y pipe welded but im confused about something....im only suppose to weld the y-pipe to the cat back right? and just clamp the headers to the ypipe?..or have the whole y-pipe welded? because i heard welding to your headers is not okay incase i ever run into any problems or have to to take it out or something..can someone please help me out..any input would be appreciated ....sorry if its a tupid question but i rather ask than make a stupid mistake ....and i had to drive open headers to my house..thankfully it wasnt that far..but the muffler shop is about 3 miles away
i couldnt put my off road y pipe cause i couldnt take off the stock one ..so tomorrow morning im going to the muffler shop to get my y pipe welded but im confused about something....im only suppose to weld the y-pipe to the cat back right? and just clamp the headers to the ypipe?..or have the whole y-pipe welded? because i heard welding to your headers is not okay incase i ever run into any problems or have to to take it out or something..can someone please help me out..any input would be appreciated ....sorry if its a tupid question but i rather ask than make a stupid mistake ....and i had to drive open headers to my house..thankfully it wasnt that far..but the muffler shop is about 3 miles away 
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hey ..so we just fnished installing my lt headers tonight..took us about 8 hours but we ran into a problem..i bought my cat-back last month thinking i wasnt going to get headers for awhile ..and i had it welded..bad mistake.. i couldnt put my off road y pipe cause i couldnt take off the stock one ..so tomorrow morning im going to the muffler shop to get my y pipe welded but im confused about something....im only suppose to weld the y-pipe to the cat back right? and just clamp the headers to the ypipe?..or have the whole y-pipe welded? because i heard welding to your headers is not okay incase i ever run into any problems or have to to take it out or something..can someone please help me out..any input would be appreciated ....sorry if its a tupid question but i rather ask than make a stupid mistake ....and i had to drive open headers to my house..thankfully it wasnt that far..but the muffler shop is about 3 miles away
i couldnt put my off road y pipe cause i couldnt take off the stock one ..so tomorrow morning im going to the muffler shop to get my y pipe welded but im confused about something....im only suppose to weld the y-pipe to the cat back right? and just clamp the headers to the ypipe?..or have the whole y-pipe welded? because i heard welding to your headers is not okay incase i ever run into any problems or have to to take it out or something..can someone please help me out..any input would be appreciated ....sorry if its a tupid question but i rather ask than make a stupid mistake ....and i had to drive open headers to my house..thankfully it wasnt that far..but the muffler shop is about 3 miles awayHaha.
12-21-2007, 12:28 PM
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^ i prefer welding..from my experience and my other friends who always had exhaust leakes its just beter to weld it...im going right now in 15 minutes..im only going to tell him to weld the y pipe to the cat back and just clamp it by the headers
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12-21-2007, 05:13 PM
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^ i went earlier ..had clamps put on the y pipe and headers and just welded it to the catback..so far i like my exhaust set up..anyways thanks for the help 
12-21-2007, 07:55 PM
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I had my whole system welded by a proffessional.....NOOOOOO LEAKS....no big deal...wanta change anything..wouldn't do it myself anyway....
