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Old Jul 12, 2008 | 09:35 PM
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Does anyone have there stock Y pipe layin around that they wanna get rid of or know of anyone that cuts the cats off and welds up straight pipe to the stock y??? want ory but only one i know of is pacesetters and hookers but i have shortys for torque on my 4.8
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Old Jul 12, 2008 | 09:45 PM
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Jegs sells one. I have done the cat delete on my truck, only thing i have felt is MAYBE a little more low end. Its very very loud now as well.

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Old Jul 12, 2008 | 10:47 PM
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hey thanks man i found it did u buy this one for your truck or have it done to your stocker? cuz it says its only for 99-00 wanna make sure it'll work for my 05 i figure there all the same but wanna make sure
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They are the same. I just modified my stocker myself.

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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by 2005 Silverado
Jegs sells one. I have done the cat delete on my truck, only thing i have felt is MAYBE a little more low end. Its very very loud now as well.

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You gained low end? Most guys report of loosing low end but gaining it up top...I've considered gutting mine but I don't want to lose what little low end I have lol.
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Originally Posted by budhayes3
You gained low end? Most guys report of loosing low end but gaining it up top...I've considered gutting mine but I don't want to lose what little low end I have lol.
Low to mid range then i guess but as far as being like a WOW difference, nothing. But why gut them, just cut them right near the weld, get some 2.5" pipe and cut it to length and weld it in, its what i did. I did about 80% of the welding with it still on the truck. I dropped the y-pipe down just to finish up my shitty welding job.

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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by 2005 Silverado
Low to mid range then i guess but as far as being like a WOW difference, nothing. But why gut them, just cut them right near the weld, get some 2.5" pipe and cut it to length and weld it in, its what i did. I did about 80% of the welding with it still on the truck. I dropped the y-pipe down just to finish up my shitty welding job.

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I need to pass a visual inspection here in New Jersey, if there's no cats, they fail me
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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 02:43 PM
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a friend of mine tuned his '04 5.3 trailblazer, then cut the converters off, and lost 20ft lbs of torque down low, with NO tune changes.

he started tuning on it, found that without the converters, it liked 4* more timing than before, it gained 30ft lbs (10 more than before the converter removal) and even more gains up top.

I'd say, if you remove the converters, make it MANDATORY that you re-tune your ride.

I'm thinking of doing this myself, as I really can't justify buying LT's for my daily-driver, both financially, and PITA wise, of working around them.
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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 09:30 PM
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yea i figured on just gettin another y from a junk yard or somethin and weldin up some straight pipe to it i have plenty of spare pipe layin around to do it

as far as visual inspection if where your from there that picky about **** just cut the outer heat shield off and tack weld it over the straight pipe that u just installed and they will never know as long as they just do a mirror walk around. thats what ive seen some guys do here.
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Old Jul 20, 2008 | 09:45 PM
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has anyone done this with stock muffler

is it to lould or fine

think it would be louder that cats with a magnaflow muffler
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