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Old 04-10-2009, 08:54 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Josh@STILLEN View Post
Hey guys.. the exhaust can take some adjustment, as we have discussed. The best method (not saying anyone hasn't done this.. but I conferred with my service manager) is to loosen everything, and jacking at the y-pipe (hard!) get the clearance necessary to clear the crossmember.

This will take loosening the bolts at the catalytic converter brace which hooks to the transmission. This is a slotted brace, and can give you the 1/4" needed to clear everything.

You should not have to heat anything up to make clearance..
Josh, at least in my case, there was no adjusting this away. I loosened all of the clamps and bolts in the Stillen cat-back, as well as the brace you describe, and the bolts on both sides of my cats (basically, I loosened everything in the exhaust except the header<->engine bolts), and jacked it into place from two points, and retorqued everything. It still fell back on the crossmember when the jacks came down. Two exhaust shops tried to fix things the gentle way too (one had some measure of success by bending the hangers on the center section), but it wasn't all-ok until the last guy did the "heat up the pipes and bend them a bit" trick.
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