I tried to keep my cats by cutting up and trying to fab a new y-pipe for my Pacesetter longtubes from my stock Y. What a terrible idea that was. Unless you have alot of patience and metal working skills, leave that **** alone. I spent at least 4 hours measuring, cutting, welding, heating, and bending that bastard y-pipe into something completely useless. The install on the headers took less time.

My driver's side slides right into the header, but the pass. side will not line up. I just gave up and started looking for an ORY. I have an emission test coming up in September so I can worry about it in August.

Tomorrow morning I am going to use what I can from the stock y-pipe and just run that ghetto flex tubing for the passenger side. I leave back to college on Sunday and I know I cant get my ORy here by then, so if my parents need the truck, they will have to deal with the shitty drone.

If anyone has any reason not to use the flex pipe, let me know so I can try something else before I leave.

In retrospect, I should have gone with the stainless complete exhaust deal. The time and frustration saved, plus the benefit of an SS exhaust is probably worth the added cost. I am hoping these headers were worth what I've done so far.

 

dude take your time go to an auto parts store and get some 90* and 45* bends and weld it all together you'll be fine

 

I agree with litreddevil. Man I got access to an exhaust shop and it's really not that hard to fab up a custom Y pipe. If I knew you needed it I would send you the specs on how to build my Y pipe.

 

could you hook the rest of us up with those specs? i wouldnt mind running cats if i can make my own y pipe for the pacesetters...

 

yea ive gotta run cats too, be nice too see some ideas

 

Yeah guys...I'll post em up on Sunday cool?

 

I just built a custom y pipe with 3" cats for pacesetter headers. As a matter of fact I'm going to be welding the o2 bungs on tonight then I'll post some pics. Its not too hard to due if you have access to some bends, cutter/chop saw and a welder(mig or tig). The hardest the is cutting everthing short enough to clear the crossmember, hard to follow but you will see what I'm talking about.

 

Heres how I had mine done:

 

Nice Lookin Setup 1 Slow

 

That's about what I was trying to do 1SlowHoe, but with the stock piping. For some reason Napa wants $25 for each crush bent elbow. I am just going to order from summit and redo it all in 3" or cut out a small section of an ORY pipe and weld in some cats.

Right now there is the flex pipe crap and it works well enough. I used the copper gaskets that came with the headers and I have a small leak. The dealership just got a set of stockers and a new dipstick tube for me so I'll be able to retry when I get back.

I can't get any traction with the fresh snow, so I cannot tell if there was a difference, but it did make it a little louder. Nothing unbearable or anything though.

Do you guys think I could put a cat right after where the y-pipe merges?