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04-21-2013, 08:40 PM

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Does anyone have a pic of the stock u-bend pipe? I bought my car used and I'm not seeing the u-bend in my downpipe.

It'll just be a notch where the o2 sensor screws in.

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04-22-2013, 09:20 AM

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Does anyone have a pic of the stock u-bend pipe? I bought my car used and I'm not seeing the u-bend in my downpipe.

It's not what it sounds like. It is actually just a crushed section of the pipe where the O2 sensor is located after the cat.

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04-22-2013, 05:19 PM

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Yep, there's a pic of it in the Thorley header sticky:

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04-22-2013, 05:55 PM

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Yeah, it's the flatten part of the pipe where the rear O2 sensor is located.

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04-23-2013, 10:25 AM

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wow thats ubend looks worse then my old gtp

what size is the cat? 2.5?

just curious i have a couple high flow 2.5 cats just sitting in the garage from my camaro... looks like the downpipe would be pretty simple to make...

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