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Old 08-16-2005, 10:11 PM
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Is the pacesetter y-pipe still not that good like everyone used to say? Did they upgrade it or what?
Old 08-16-2005, 10:23 PM
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i have the y-pipe and its not that great but i had a bracket put in and it hasn't given me problems since.
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I ordered my Pacesetter headers and ORY in June and the y-pipe is very good quality. Mounted up easy, slid right up onto the collectors, no fitment problems at all. It doesn't even bang on the chassis under hard acceleration. So I guess they fixed the problem.
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I've got one and don't really have any problems with it. It bangs under acceleration, but that's because the back of the system, near the merge, is to close to the body. The shop that put it on mounted it to close.
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I dont think there ever was a problem with it. After other y pipes were released they were no better. Its a tight fit on our cars to put a 3" y pipe and still have ground clearance. The Pace y pipe is just fine.
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only problem i had is it hitting the floor.
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I have the Pacesetter Y-pipe and Im not too happy with the way they merged the two pipes into one. When you look inside that perticular area, you can see that there is a restriction. Also, I'm not sure how other Y-pipes are, but my y-pipe is kind of flat-end out at (i think) 2 areas. Besides these little probs, its a nice piece. If I could do it all over again, I'll get the TSP Y-pipe. Good Luck
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Those flat spots are not hurting flow. Now the merge is hurting flow. What I did is port out the extra material that you can see that blocks the flow of the driver pipe.
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Mine bumps the floor a little. I moved it around a few times and took one of the brackets off and now it bumps the floor a lot less. Now it only bumps under full accelleration in first, whereas before it bumped in every gear.
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Also - the side that merges to the catback is the same size my GMMG catback was! I had to have my GMMG changed to fit over it. Big pain in the butt.




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