I have screwed my car up so bad I don't even want to drive it!!
07-01-2012, 12:49 PM
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Man if your Y pipe is messed up that bad. I would take that poorly mad POS back to the muffler shop and tell them to fix their shoddy half assed work. That is unacceptable.
Next time just buy quality parts, if you can't pay to play. Then save to pay. This hobby is not cheap and when you try and chintz, it ends up costing you more.
Next time just buy quality parts, if you can't pay to play. Then save to pay. This hobby is not cheap and when you try and chintz, it ends up costing you more.
07-01-2012, 02:24 PM
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You really should've thought this through alittle... Mmounts 75% of the time are a must, It's easiest to change plugs when the stock manifolds are out. 100$ more and you could've had proven quality headers (pacesetter)..Looks like you wanted to go the cheap route and this is what happens.....Agreed on the rasp eliminating duals though..++ on that....I've had flowmaster and LM and they both hit a nasty rasp at 2k rpm. Now with duals, at 2k rpms it truly sounds like beast with not a hint of rasp.
07-01-2012, 02:52 PM
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do NOT hate your car lol just be patient. the hitting is most probably motor mounts as everyone said. mine hit too but am living with it till i have some spare time to replace them. i didnt read the whole thread but if its missing bad then its definitely a bad plug (it might look good but still mises)..the leak sound you mentioned could be just normal long tubes tick. dont worry to much. be patient and you will figure it out 
07-01-2012, 03:33 PM
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Taking it back to the muffler shop tomorrow. Exhaust is leaking around the flanges they welded on too. I hadn't heard of anyone having any problems with the ebay headers other than a few fitting issues which I didn't have. Definitely gonna save up for a better set of headers too. Maybe I should just ditch the Y pipe altogether and dump the true duals. Should get rid of the banging too.
07-01-2012, 03:48 PM
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Hope you paid less than $130 for that POS 2.5" more more than likely crush bent y-pipe. Get some get some poly motor mounts and a Texas Speed y-pipe. If you Ebay headers fit then there's know reason to replace them.
07-01-2012, 04:06 PM
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It only pops and runs like crap when you get on it in 1st or 2nd. I'm sure it's knock sensors because of the shitty Y that's causing the problems now. My Y pipe doesn't even remotely resemble that one and after looking at a bunch of pics of others Y pipes and how they are routed I know that's the cause of the problem. Mine is touching the torque arm with the car not even under load. I can only imagine how it is bending and hitting with the suspension loaded up.
I will definitely look into the TSP duals. Will this eliminate the rasp?
I have all my wires away from the headers and there aren't any marks on them at all.
I bought the car because I've always wanted a T/A. After the divorce, IRS and a kid in college it's not so easy to just buy everything I want for it, so I have to do it in stages. Unless I convince my son to drop out of college.
Other than the Y pipe I've done all the work on it myself with jacks and jack stands including going into the rear end twice. So I thought it out pretty good, well with the exception of the Y pipe.
I will definitely look into the TSP duals. Will this eliminate the rasp?
I have all my wires away from the headers and there aren't any marks on them at all.
I bought the car because I've always wanted a T/A. After the divorce, IRS and a kid in college it's not so easy to just buy everything I want for it, so I have to do it in stages. Unless I convince my son to drop out of college.
Other than the Y pipe I've done all the work on it myself with jacks and jack stands including going into the rear end twice. So I thought it out pretty good, well with the exception of the Y pipe.
07-01-2012, 04:09 PM
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Hope you paid less than $130 for that POS 2.5" more more than likely crush bent y-pipe. Get some get some poly motor mounts and a Texas Speed y-pipe. If you Ebay headers fit then there's know reason to replace them.
07-01-2012, 04:41 PM
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If they built the ypipe on the car while it was lifted, and they are competent at all, there should be no issue at all with the ypipe hitting the torque arm or anything else. Sounds like their junk design ypipe is not lined up right, causing the exhaust to pull loose somewhere and leak and banging things it shouldnt. I would make them fix it...hell take them pics of REAL ORY's if you need too. I have done that before to the local lack luster exhaust shops and said, "its easy, just do it like this".
07-01-2012, 07:06 PM
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If they built the ypipe on the car while it was lifted, and they are competent at all, there should be no issue at all with the ypipe hitting the torque arm or anything else. Sounds like their junk design ypipe is not lined up right, causing the exhaust to pull loose somewhere and leak and banging things it shouldnt. I would make them fix it...hell take them pics of REAL ORY's if you need too. I have done that before to the local lack luster exhaust shops and said, "its easy, just do it like this".
