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Can i run an off road y and lm1 catack on stock manifolds?

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Old 04-14-2010, 05:19 PM
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i wanna get a lm1 catback and was thinking a may get an offraod y to go with it untill i can afford to get headers, will an off road y work with the stock manifolds? thanks
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cat delete Y's are like $175, LM1's are $375ish, and together you will gain maybe 10hp and have a ton of rasp. I'd run longtubes and ory through the stock catback for that price.

plus chances are your cats are so rusted to your manifolds you'll have to completely remove the manifolds, drill out all the studs, and then reinstall. might as well just wait and do headers.
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Originally Posted by therealcreeper
cat delete Y's are like $175, LM1's are $375ish, and together you will gain maybe 10hp and have a ton of rasp. I'd run longtubes and ory through the stock catback for that price.

plus chances are your cats are so rusted to your manifolds you'll have to completely remove the manifolds, drill out all the studs, and then reinstall. might as well just wait and do headers.
I agree with this statement.

If you really are interested in running an ORY with the LM1, I've done it before and it sounded horrendous at anything besides WOT.
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Running a catback and Y set-up without headers will not do much to your hp numbers. The constriction is still coming from the stock manifolds. headers and a tune will really help out.
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im running a LM1 cat-back and Mac ORY with the stock headers...i like the way it sounds...pretty deep not to raspy at all...dont feel much power difference mostly just soundwas able to bolt it up without removing the manifold and only snapped 1 bolt so only had to drill one out
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pretty sure the only ORY's that are available to bolt to the stock headers are Mac and SLP
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Horrible idea. It may sound cool to you at first but once you add cats it will sounds shitty. If you decide to go with it don't come asking us months later how to "quiet it down and you hate the raspyness" cause I'm trying to warn you now and save you some money in the process.




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