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Old Aug 22, 2005 | 02:04 AM
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Default Pacesetters lts y-pipe sounds like it leaks does your?

Okay i have some pacesetter lts and some magnaflow cats welded in the y-pipe. The y-pipe is clamped to the headers with some rtv. It appears not to leak it sounds like it does. Does your sound like that?

Is it normal
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Old Aug 22, 2005 | 02:10 PM
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The only sound my pacesetter ory makes is when it hits the floor
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Old Aug 22, 2005 | 03:20 PM
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Many longtube headers give the impression that they are leaking by the way they sound. I installed the same set you speak of on a 01 WS6 we thought it was leaking but on a lift couldnt find anything.
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Old Aug 22, 2005 | 03:26 PM
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headers just give sort of a leaky exhaust sound. You can usually tell if there is a leak though.
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Old Aug 22, 2005 | 05:37 PM
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My jet hot Y pipe leaked, even with band clamps. I could feel the leak when the car was idling, and see the carbon build up around the leak.

Just get down there and look.

You can normally hear a leak if there's a "tick tick tick" sound that only appears when your engine is loaded (i.e. hitting the gas).

If it's a tick tick tick that's always there, and coming from the engine bay, it's just the extra valvetrain noise from the thinner metal in the headers.
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Old Aug 23, 2005 | 10:27 PM
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I think thats it,the pipe is thin
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