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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 09:29 AM
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Default LT's and Y Pipe on Lowered car - Comments Please

If you have experience putting LT's and Y Pipe on a lowered car, please provide some input on brand of headers and Y pipe, how much car is lowered, and road clearance.

I'm looking for folks with experience, not necessarialy what someone read on an internet board somewhere.
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 09:36 AM
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I'm lowered with sportlines and the only thing that scrapes (speed bumps) is my y pipe. Of course it is a junky muffler shop ypipe. Pacesetter long tubes and borla catback don't have any problems though.
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 09:43 AM
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My Friend Runs Macs W-ory And Has Almost The Same Clearance As Stock About 1/2" Less
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 10:00 AM
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just don't buy the slp headers as they sit way too low.

Its not to bad in florida where all the roads are flat.
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 09:02 PM
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Im lowered (check sig for levels) and i have no problems. Just dont too fast over speed bumps and you'll be fine. Definatly dont buy SLP if your gonna lower. Then it might actually be a problem.
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 09:38 PM
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My car is VERY low, it scrapes on almost everything. I went with XS/LPP LT headers and Y and they fit perfectly and tuck up beautifully. They sit at the same height as my stock setup.
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 09:43 PM
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i have kooks and kooks catted Y. im at stock height now but have strano springs and koni's going on pretty soon. I have no clearance issues, and havent heard of anyone with this setup having issues
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Old Mar 27, 2008 | 10:49 PM
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i have no problems with scraping. im running american racing headers with their catted y, along with bmr lowering springs.
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pacesetter lts and ory on eibach prokit.

ive scraped a few times on speed bumps going ~2mph, so i avoid them like the plague. however, i think it was part of the clamp scraping.
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I run Edelbrock LT's/ORY, and my car is lowered about 1.5". I really don't scrape too often. When my car was at stock ride height minus isolators in the rear a beer can slid under my Y pipe with more room to spare! I have no regrets with this setup.
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i have pacesetters with ture duals hahahaha yeah i know you asked for y but the only thing that scrapes on my set-up is the lm1 resonators
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Old Mar 28, 2008 | 11:45 AM
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i have pacesetters now......about 3in clearence......i used to have a bassani ory and stock manifolds and it was even better......car is lowered 1.8fr and 2.0 rear
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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 12:35 AM
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yeah, i have the same kind of problem, im not lowered but when i hit those monster speed bumps i can scrape. with hooker lt and pacesetter y, my problem is when i go like 5 mph and my car lifts and drops on the bump. im worried about lowering also. i just figured ill have to deal with hitting them at an angel, and either slow as **** or busting shock fast haha.
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Old Mar 30, 2008 | 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by BigKap94z
I run Edelbrock LT's/ORY, and my car is lowered about 1.5". I really don't scrape too often. When my car was at stock ride height minus isolators in the rear a beer can slid under my Y pipe with more room to spare! I have no regrets with this setup.
was there any beer left in the can?
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Originally Posted by yeller_xtc
was there any beer left in the can?
Not a drop!
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