A little story about exhaust.

I thought I'd share this little bit of info for those going down the changing your own exhaust road and don't know what to expect. My disclaimer for this story is that I was dumb, I didn't look into what was involved and me and two of my friends dived into the project with a set of wrenches and car ramps and a nice box from the good people at Flowmaster.

Once upon a time, there were three little idiots...

8:00 pm - We decide it's time to do the exhaust and drive the car up onto the ramps. My friend Joe crawls under the car and announces, "This will be cake"

8:05 pm - Mike exists the house from his afternoon nap to join our fun. By this time we have most of the Y-pipe off, and we have never been more pleased with ourselves

8:10 pm - The Y-pipe seems to be putting up a bit of a fuss coming out of the pipe that it Y's into... no problem, we'll just yank it out.

9:15 pm - After screaming, swearing, kicking, pounding, twisting and ripping we pull the Y-pipe free of the exhaust system and hurl it into the road (which isn't as far as it sounds since we were doing this project in the road at the end of our dead end road). Our audience of three (being Mike's girlfriend, Joe's girlfriend and this guy Jerome) clap for us. We then realize that we need the Y-pipe and apologize to it.

9:20 pm - We begin attempting to pry the first of the single exhaust pipe tubes appart.

9:25 pm - We realize that they are either welded or just clamped far too tight.

9:30 pm - We stare at it some.

9:35 pm - We borrow our neightbors hack saw...

10:30 pm - We saw... and saw... and saw...

10:35 pm - and saw... and saw... and saw... in the dark.

10:40 pm - We get sick of sawing and try to now break the losened parts up.

11:00 pm - They finally come appart. That piece is summerially thrown into the pile of parts. Now we try to loop the exhaust off the axle. It goes poorly.

11:20 pm - Finally after having driven the car backwards off the ramps with the exhaust hanging off and just the manifold and cats on at 11 at night we attempt to loop the muffler off the axle now that the back is raised higher. Again we fail.

11:25 pm - We bang the crap out of the tips trying to twist them in the muffler so that we can turn the muffler more to get it off. It finally works. The exhaust is finally off.

11:35 pm - The Flowmaster system goes on without a hitch, it takes 10 minutes to install and looks and sounds great.

Moral of the story. When removing your exhaust system being with more then a set of wrenches, a ratchet, some ramps and three idiots. And cutting exhaust pipe with a hack saw, sucks...

 

HAHA. A good laugh man, sounds like me and my friends too. A 20 minute job always truns into 4 hours with me and my luck. Glad it went on okay though. What kind of flowmaster and Ypipe was it?
-JOSH

 

Coventry, That is not far from where I live.

Cool story.

 

ROFLMAO! Good story and good points, I laugh but have learned a lesson taught by the "experience" of others... Of course you are far braver than I attempting this at that late hour (8 PM) because like soldier6552 said a simple 20 minute job for me turns into a 4-5 hour ordeal with copious amounts of swearing and bleeding/smashed hands/knuckles...

 

Now that you had all that trouble getting it on, I'd hate to tell you that Flowmaster sucks, sounds great, but isn't good for performace. Glad you got it done though. My header install took 1 and a half days, most of the time was getting the new damn y-pipe to fit to the i-pipe, so don't feel bad.

 

I didn't think it was possible to work on a car without swearing/bleeding/smashing knuckles/swearing

LOL

 

I got Flowmaster American Thunder exhaust, the stock Y pipe for now.

I was aware that Flowmaster isn't regarded as very good performance. I bought it for it's tone, not so much for the performance aspect. The other stuff I plan should make up for the loss. That and I'm probably pulling the muffler that comes with it for a better Flowmaster muffler.

 

Good stuff haha

 

1 word, sawsaw, or reciprocating saw whatever you want to call it cuts through it like butter.

 

You tellin me you cut off your SLP D/D exhaust for a Flowmaster? If you had dropped the axle down, you could have pulled it all off in one piece.

 

That's a funny story... when I did my Corsa exhaust, I actually had to saw the pipe twice, because the first time I didn't do it far enough back!!!

 

Coventry, real close to me, I'm in Ellington. Too bad I didn't know you, I did my SLP loudmouth in about 20 minutes. Granted, my car was only 3 months old then, and nothing was rusted together yet, but still, 20 minutes VS 4 hours...... and I did the job myself. A sawzall would have made life alot easier. Also, why did you take the Y pipe off, I just sawed my stock WS-6 muffler off at the muffler, took that off first, then popped the other pipe out of the y, and slid it out foreward and down, no problems.

 

I was wondering that as well... but then again, I read the instructions From the sound of it, I doubt ironheart did.

 

 

We just kinda... took the Y-pipe off. Heh. I think we just got a little overzealous pulling stuff off.

And no, I didn't remove dual/dual for Flowmaster. I never had dual dual. Dunno what it was exactly that was on there.. I think it was just the slash cut exhaust, but I like the flowmaster sound a little better then the exhaust that was on there. I was aware from the beginning that I wouldn't be improving flow at all, I just loved the sound.

 

Really, you live in Ellington? No kidding. I've probably seen you around sometime then, I'm in the Vernon/Manchester area all the time.

 

Vernon Cruise night, Tri Town Cruisers. I usually go every Friday, unless the weather is no good. Stop by some Friday night, I should be there. Only now Ellington is putting down that crappy oil/stone stuff on all our roads, after that happens to my street, the car stays parked unitl I can go somewhere safely and not worry about someone going the other way at 50 MPH and throwing a bucket of rocks at my ride. Drop me an e-mail. LJO524@aol.com