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Old May 4, 2008 | 07:55 PM
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I was under my SS today, so I decided to take some pictures of the Y-pipe the previous owner put on. The car is dropped pretty low, so that may have been the reason for the change. The car has kind of a high pitch sound to it when I gun it. Almost the whole Y is flat. Check out the pics and give me some opinions. The car is totally stock except for lid and flowmaster catback. I put a quart of oil in front of it to gauge size. Thanks.
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Looks like a stock y pipe too me, all of them come flat on the drivers side...
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that looks like the factory Y pipe to me. Long tubes and an ORY will get rid of that for ya!
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factory y pipe
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Throw some LT's on there, you won't have to worry about choking any flow after that!
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I just don't remember the Y on my 99 being that thin. There are two aftermarket cats welded into it too. Maybe that's why it looks different.
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hmmmmm.... wonder if he welded some cats into the stock Y? but then.... what happened to the factory cats...?
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hmmmmm.... wonder if he welded some cats into the stock Y? but then.... what happened to the factory cats...?


+1 let get some pics upstream where the factory cats go- right off the end of the manifolds.
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My guess is he took the cats off to Gut them, and rewelded them in.

That also might be the "High pitched" sound you hear i think
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My guess is he took the cats off to Gut them, and rewelded them in.

That also might be the "High pitched" sound you hear i think
These do not look like factory cats and I'm not throwing any O2 codes. I'll see if I can get some more pics. Thanks.
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thats the stock y, dunno about that cat situation
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looks like a stocker to me, and it sucks mad dick, idk what kind of gains you'd get replacing it but a set of lt's would probably help a hella lot
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Damn stock Y pipes are ugly. Definally do some longtubes. Night and Day power wise man
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you won't regret getting LTs and a Y pipe if you do.
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