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Denny McLain

My feeling exactly.

After 4 rounds of close hand to hand fighting, I'm finally claiming a victory. No more clang, clang, rattle, rattle.

Went back to the muffler shop again today and I was wrong about cutting and moving the Y-pipe back a bit. After further close inspection, the exhaust was manufactured lop-sided and one side of the rear Y-pipe is lower than the other sitting about the same height as the large tube. Knew it was canted a bit when I first installed it, just didn't realize how lopsided it was and moving it forward wouldn't help.

Another fix solved the problem..... put my JIC Y-Pipe back on, cut the rear Y-pipe in half just after the flange, jacked it up higher and re-welded it back into the proper place where it should have been in the beginning.

The moral of the story is take your car to a good muffler shop and get it over with in round 1. I doubt you need to heat and bend the hangers, just cut the front of the Y-pipe in half, jack it up some more and have them weld it in place higher. Then weld the slip joints solid and throw away those tacky U bolts. Might be a nice and honest gesture to send Stillen the bill.

Why the JIC Y-pipe? I already had it, much higher quality and it has flex joints.