stock exhaust on my 98 z removal
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stock exhaust on my 98 z removal
Well I just ordered my slp lm1 on friday cant wait to get it. anyway I was looking under the car and was thinking i will have to cut the pipe that goes over the rear end to get it out. or if I jack it up and let the suspension drop can I maneuver the exhaust out without cutting. I would like to keep the stock exhaust just in case I put it back to original. car only has 20,000 miles on it.
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I just pulled my stock exhaust last week to install a Magnaflow.
It took WAY longer to get the old one out than the new one in. I needed an angle grinder and a sawzall to do it.
The band clamp where the I pipe connects to the Y - You'll need to cut that. Mine as corroded beyond recognition, so I knew there'd be no unbolting it. On further inspection though, it looks like it was actually welded closed anyway. I started with the sawzall, then realized that would take way too long. So I got the angle grinder and just ground a line through the band clamp then pried it away from the pipe to loosen it.
As far as getting the rest out intact, it looks like you'd have to remove a lot of other parts. I think you'd have to pull the (edit: meant PASSENGER's side) wheel, shock, coil spring, and unbolt the panhard bar o nthat side, then remove the brace. Then you *might* be able to slide it out the side.
I was thinkign the same as you - trying to minimize cuts as to possibly save it. Well I cut it where it bends over the axle as high up as I could while making a straight cut, but with the car jacked up as high as I could safely get it and the rear axle hanging, there was no way I was getting the muffler, tailpipes and over axle pipe out as 1. I just couldn't tilt the whole thing down far enough to rotate the cut pipe over the axle. So, figuring I was planning on doing it anyway, I cut the Formula exhaust tips off thinking that would give me enough room. SO close! But not quite. So I got sick of messing with it and cut the pipe where it goes into the muffler. That did the trick, but now the exhaust is in 3 pieces.
In retrospect I think I should have cut the I pipe up farther, or maybe even on the BACK side of the axle.
Now if you're doing it on a lift, or have super tall jackstands, you won't have a probelm with just the 1 cut in the I Pipe before it bends over the axle.
(My reason for making the straight cut was that I was thinking I could reinstall it with a wide band clamp holding the two pieces together)
It took WAY longer to get the old one out than the new one in. I needed an angle grinder and a sawzall to do it.
The band clamp where the I pipe connects to the Y - You'll need to cut that. Mine as corroded beyond recognition, so I knew there'd be no unbolting it. On further inspection though, it looks like it was actually welded closed anyway. I started with the sawzall, then realized that would take way too long. So I got the angle grinder and just ground a line through the band clamp then pried it away from the pipe to loosen it.
As far as getting the rest out intact, it looks like you'd have to remove a lot of other parts. I think you'd have to pull the (edit: meant PASSENGER's side) wheel, shock, coil spring, and unbolt the panhard bar o nthat side, then remove the brace. Then you *might* be able to slide it out the side.
I was thinkign the same as you - trying to minimize cuts as to possibly save it. Well I cut it where it bends over the axle as high up as I could while making a straight cut, but with the car jacked up as high as I could safely get it and the rear axle hanging, there was no way I was getting the muffler, tailpipes and over axle pipe out as 1. I just couldn't tilt the whole thing down far enough to rotate the cut pipe over the axle. So, figuring I was planning on doing it anyway, I cut the Formula exhaust tips off thinking that would give me enough room. SO close! But not quite. So I got sick of messing with it and cut the pipe where it goes into the muffler. That did the trick, but now the exhaust is in 3 pieces.
In retrospect I think I should have cut the I pipe up farther, or maybe even on the BACK side of the axle.
Now if you're doing it on a lift, or have super tall jackstands, you won't have a probelm with just the 1 cut in the I Pipe before it bends over the axle.
(My reason for making the straight cut was that I was thinking I could reinstall it with a wide band clamp holding the two pieces together)
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