Kooks Y Pipe Question
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Kooks Y Pipe Question I just bought a 2002 Camaro SS. It has the SLP dual exhaust package. PO put in a Kooks full header pair and Y pipes without catalytic converters (cats). It is very noise, especially at start up. The Y pipe is the Kooks off road and it is a three part system with what I'll call the actual Y and then two legs that come off the headers.
Kooks sells their Y pipe with cats attached and it can be found for $756 from vendors.
Kooks also sells the cats with the legs welded on if I just wanted to keep the original Y from my Y pipe. That set up, not on their website or catalog is about $780. Yes, its crazy.
So, my thought was initially to buy those legs but at that price its not economically smart.
Here are my options I think:
I could have welded a a set of cats to the two legs on my Y pipe. It means finding someone who welds stainless steel. Not easy. As a matter of fact, striking out.
The subquestions here are Kooks non epa compliant flow through stainless cats? about $136 each I think. Regular cats a bit less. Maybe not stainless?
If I can't find someone to weld them, maybe expand the 3 inch stainless leg pipes to slide and clamp the cats?
I know another option is to leave the roar, but I work on a Federal facility and they tend to frown on something with that much noise.
Bite the bullet and buy the Y pipe with cats?
Any other options to quiet this down?
Kooks sells their Y pipe with cats attached and it can be found for $756 from vendors.
Kooks also sells the cats with the legs welded on if I just wanted to keep the original Y from my Y pipe. That set up, not on their website or catalog is about $780. Yes, its crazy.
So, my thought was initially to buy those legs but at that price its not economically smart.
Here are my options I think:
I could have welded a a set of cats to the two legs on my Y pipe. It means finding someone who welds stainless steel. Not easy. As a matter of fact, striking out.
The subquestions here are Kooks non epa compliant flow through stainless cats? about $136 each I think. Regular cats a bit less. Maybe not stainless?
If I can't find someone to weld them, maybe expand the 3 inch stainless leg pipes to slide and clamp the cats?
I know another option is to leave the roar, but I work on a Federal facility and they tend to frown on something with that much noise.
Bite the bullet and buy the Y pipe with cats?
Any other options to quiet this down?
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Are you saying that the cats will slip over the leg of the Y pipe without welding them on? They are made that way? If I don't have to weld, I can cut the pipe carefully and just put the cats in place with the clamps. Is that what you're saying? Oh, and thank you!!
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Wow! That eliminates all those issues I thought I was facing. Do you remember or have a record of the part numbers for the cats you ordered? Bottom line, you cut the pipe to size and inserted the cats?
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Thank you. That really explains things. I do notice in the picture that the cats have a slot cut into the ends which might make it easier to slip them over the legs of the Y pipe. You have the X pipe apparently.
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I have been thinking about doing the same to my Kooks TDE. In my mind it was going to be a lot harder task that it is. Thanks for the info.
