Kooks owners - verify this install (y-pipe)
#1
Kooks owners - verify this install (y-pipe)
I just want to be sure other Kooks users show the same install tolerances.
The y-pipe is *awefully* dam close to the brake lines ... and the y-pipe's exit
is tucked way up into the driveshaft tunnel.
Is this how others are positioned? Just want to be sure.
http://picasaweb.google.com/calder.cay/Kooks
The y-pipe is *awefully* dam close to the brake lines ... and the y-pipe's exit
is tucked way up into the driveshaft tunnel.
Is this how others are positioned? Just want to be sure.
http://picasaweb.google.com/calder.cay/Kooks
#2
Looks about right. I think your driver side tucks up a little better than mine though. Hard to see in my pic (don't have one of the other side).
My y-pipe had about 1/2" of clearance from the tunnel brace, looks like yours is sitting a little high (maybe just the angle?). Either way, it took me a while to align my catback, which is still crooked. I need to have a muffler shop fab me up something so it sits straight.
My y-pipe had about 1/2" of clearance from the tunnel brace, looks like yours is sitting a little high (maybe just the angle?). Either way, it took me a while to align my catback, which is still crooked. I need to have a muffler shop fab me up something so it sits straight.
#3
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Location: Lansing, MI via Bowling Green, KY: Dalton, GA: Nashville, TN & Atlanta, GA
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I really can't remember and I can't go look. I can say that my Y-Pipe mated right up to my GMMG catback and didn't require any manipulation. The ground clearance was very good.
Is the end of your Y-Pipe angling upwards?
Is the end of your Y-Pipe angling upwards?
#4
the catback pipe, but it is tucking up in there. Also, there is less than an
inch of clearance from the y-pipe and the driveshaft.
#5
http://picasaweb.google.com/calder.c...85485701824210
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#7
Mine tucked up in as well. But that's the reason I went this direction. I have much more clearance than I did with the Jet Hots longtubes. I did have to cut some off my "Y" pipe on one side to get it to fit right though.
#9
on, but as can be seen by the photos, the y-pipe is up against the underbelly
on both the driver and passenger sides, so I do want to fab a bracket to
"pull the pipe" down a bit.
BLDun - fortunately, I didnt have to do any customization to the y-pipe. I did,
however, have to grind the header flange in the center on the driver side,
since it wasnt exactly level (it had a slight high spot in the center).
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#13
Looks about right. I think your driver side tucks up a little better than mine though. Hard to see in my pic (don't have one of the other side).
My y-pipe had about 1/2" of clearance from the tunnel brace, looks like yours is sitting a little high (maybe just the angle?). Either way, it took me a while to align my catback, which is still crooked. I need to have a muffler shop fab me up something so it sits straight.
My y-pipe had about 1/2" of clearance from the tunnel brace, looks like yours is sitting a little high (maybe just the angle?). Either way, it took me a while to align my catback, which is still crooked. I need to have a muffler shop fab me up something so it sits straight.
#14
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Lansing, MI via Bowling Green, KY: Dalton, GA: Nashville, TN & Atlanta, GA
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I don't know if this will answer your question, but I'm pretty sure the cats are welded into the y-pipe by Kooks and would'nt require that you attach them to anything. I can't say definitively because my y-pipe is their offroad version, but my y came in two pieces and joined together well beyond where the cats appear to be placed in that pic.