Originally Posted by wstar

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.