ORP Blues
ORP Blues AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! <img border="0" alt="[Banging Head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Banging Head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Banging Head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" />
Is it just me, or is it impossible to get an off road pipe made.
I would like to maintain the stock Y pipe because of ground clearence issues, but all I want is a piece of friggen pipe to replace the cats.
Is there anybody on the planet that sells something like this. I have been to 6 different exhaust shops today and none would even make the pipe for me. I DON'T EVEN WANT THE NUMB NUTS TO INSTALL IT, just give me the ******* pipe!
I run JBA headers (I know) with the stock Y. Does anybody know where I can get a piece of pipe that will fit this.
Thanks
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Is it just me, or is it impossible to get an off road pipe made.
I would like to maintain the stock Y pipe because of ground clearence issues, but all I want is a piece of friggen pipe to replace the cats.
Is there anybody on the planet that sells something like this. I have been to 6 different exhaust shops today and none would even make the pipe for me. I DON'T EVEN WANT THE NUMB NUTS TO INSTALL IT, just give me the ******* pipe!
I run JBA headers (I know) with the stock Y. Does anybody know where I can get a piece of pipe that will fit this.
Thanks
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Launching!
Joined: May 2002
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From: New Orleans, La.
Re: ORP Blues Go to your favorite local steel yard.Buy 1 piece of tubing (steel is very cheap).Cut cats out at each weld.Cut steel tubes to the same length.Weld them in.Voila! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />
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From: Chicago, IL
Re: ORP Blues What year is your car? I think Mufflex makes some bolt-in test pipes for the 2000+ cars. Some local shops will make ORPs if you bring the car in on a trailer and take the plates off. Tell them it's a "race-only" car and see if they'll work with you. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Re: ORP Blues The test pipes is what I was originally looking for. Unfortunately, they stopped selling them around here because people were doing what I want to do <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
Every one of the shops said that if it comes in here with cats it leaves with cats. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
<img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" /> emmissions *****
If it is just a striaght shot with some pipe and flanges, I will take the measurement and drive an hour (because all of the shops around me know what I am up to now) to get the pipe made. <img border="0" alt="[gay]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_rainbow.gif" />
So is it a straight shot?
Ooops, forgot sig.
<small>[ August 09, 2002, 04:14 PM: Message edited by: NoGo ]</small>
Every one of the shops said that if it comes in here with cats it leaves with cats. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
<img border="0" alt="[guns]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_guns.gif" /> emmissions *****
If it is just a striaght shot with some pipe and flanges, I will take the measurement and drive an hour (because all of the shops around me know what I am up to now) to get the pipe made. <img border="0" alt="[gay]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_rainbow.gif" />
So is it a straight shot?
Ooops, forgot sig.
<small>[ August 09, 2002, 04:14 PM: Message edited by: NoGo ]</small>
Staging Lane
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From: El Paso
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From: Houston, TX.
Re: ORP Blues I have a 2002 Z28 and I am looking for the exact same ORP.LS1 SPEED no longer sells the ORPs any more.They told me that the manufacture quit producing them because some of them wouldn`t seat up right.(at lest thats what they told me)If you do finde some please post where you got them.good luck
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Launching!
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 258
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From: New Orleans, La.
Re: ORP Blues No I have not done it,but if you cut the cat exactly @ the welds,a piece of straight tube will work.Good fitting and welding skills are all thats needed.I`ve done some pretty crazy $hit with exhaust in the past.Makes this job look easy.Go to a welder.Screw the exhaust guys!
Re: ORP Blues No Go, have you lowered your car or something? Although not in your "sig" it makes me wonder why you would go thru the trouble of cutting, removing, cutting, inserting, welding and f*ckin up some hands for a pipe that really won't give you sh*t for results. Are your cats bad? Must be because why else would you wanna do this? Let's see here, you remove cats, thinking they are restricting your flow, then you weld a phatazz pipe where the "restrictive" cats were giving you soooo much more flow all the way down to that factory piece of flattened sh*t that crosses from left to right-yeah, the restrictive flat spot that causes turbulence within the early exhaust area where scavenging should be taking place. So, why was it you wanted to do this, for ground clearance? You must have some really mean speed bumps, or one hella low Fbody. Which is it? For a couple yards you get the ORY and when/if you need your cats back just unbolt and rebolt. Good luck.
Launching!
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Re: ORP Blues Federal law says that the fine is $10,000 if a shop alters the pollution system. So you drive into your local Monroe or Midas shop and ask them to do that. What do you expect? For all they know, you're a DEC cop. You got to look around, find out where others have their stuff done and get to know someone there. It's like looking for drugs or a *****, get it? All they got to do is cut out the cats with a sawsall and weld in a piece of straight pipe which muffler shops have lots of. A very simple job to do if they know you. My muffler surgeon would do it for $30. Sorry for being so blunt but that's the way it is.
Re: ORP Blues Lest not we forget the old "hollowed out" cats, cheaper than a muff shop cutting and welding and your humility saved by asking someone to break the law only to get rejected. Hollow'em out and all you gotta pay for is the O-2 sims and gas to go run around in your high performance exhaust equipped f'er. Take note, w/out sims you'll run rich. There are other threads concerning rich conditions on systems w/out cats or hollowed and no sims, that's why they sell'em. Once again, good luck.
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