k. Picture below is my current setup. Ditchign those edelbrock shorties for apceseeter long tubes.

So Pacesetters are slip over type collector.....the plan was to cut my y pipe and use the current y pipe...jsut modify it a bit. it has a 2.5" pipe right now, so Im thinking jsut getting a 2.5" to 3" maximizer fitting, weld onto end of cats, then slip onto headers and clamp.

What do you guys think I should do...look at the pic and make some suggestions

 

are you trying to keep the cats for sure??? why not just get the headser and fab something to go straight into your X pipe??

 

yah i defiently need the cats...ontario has strick emission regulations....what the plans are to section a piece on eahc pipe before xpipe to bring both the piped strightback...to make room for longer "longtubes"....

 

I could buy your old Edelbrock shorties if you want to sell them?

 

did you notice any difference at all with the edelbrocks?

 

cut your stock cats off your stock Y pipe, install the headers, and have the pipes right after the collectors fitted with the cats, then put in a bung for the 2nd O2 and run them where you want from there... one of the cleanest setups I've seen went from the headers, into 2 bullets (for the visual inspection) then the driver side went over the trans X member, and across the driveshaft over to the pass side where it met the pass side pipe, then into an X, into to more bullets, and dumped... it sounded perfrct IMO... and I'm sure it performed very nicely.

I'm sure you could do the same thing pretty easily since you already have the X pipe, just put your cats where the first set of bullets went. It would work out nicely.

 

Do exactyl what Silver-Mod-O said! We've been through this before and this is about the only best way to do it.

 

yeah their right. Those LT's will come almost to the crossmember so get them on and work around that.

 

they dont go back that far do they..look at this picture???

Also...I dont want to sound like a moron...the exhaust was done BEFORE i bought the truck...I was under the impression that everything is aftermarket under there? he said he had headers back done with high flo cats and the xpipe etc......you guys think thats all stock?

 

No, no...hell no,.....that's not stock. I can tell from the converters that's an aftermarket system.

Keep those cats if you have to use them, because they will go in more places than the stock cats will....the stockers are much more cumbersome.