it went better then I expected, was able to take off the cans and mid pipe but no luck on the Ypipe :(. The Y pipe was not letting go and I didnt want to kill myself trying to take it off being that the car was only being held up by a jack and two jack stands.

yea... when it doubt, pull out :ugh2:

yah, honestly if you're working under the car with no impact driver and feel uncomfortable, get the f- out of there.

Now you tell me. Where was that advice 24 years ago before I had two kids? :icon17:

i was in diapers... wait a minute :wtf2:

:icon18: Well done.

lol!!

Hahah and pull out is exactly what I did.. I'm so happy I didn't get test pipes a week earlier cause there was no way I would of been able to or even tired to take those off with simple hand tools.. P.s the rubber hangers wouldn't move either so I sliced through them with a blade haha easiest part of the job

lol at cutting hangers. that's the first time ive heard anyone remove exhaust in such effective/speedy manner! :tup:

It honestly cut off like 20mins of work haha

lube helps... just sayin' :rolleyes:

oh... we're still talking about exhaust weren't we :ugh:

Something similar has happened to me 2 weeks ago where my nismo was hit parked at the gym parking lot. Again another 18 year kid doing god knows what and hit the rear of my car while I was inside the gym. Its not as bad but still it came out to 10k for total damages including my ark exhaust which got bent. In that case where theres an aftermarket part the insurance will replace it with the oem unit. When the adjuster guy showed up to evaluate the supplement, my body shop guy told him that since this is the after market exhaust I will need the entire oem catback system. And he went for it and approved it.
The total for oem nismo catback is $3182 which Ill be picking tomorrow from my body shop guy. So Ill be buying another Ark and the rest is going for the mods Ive been planing to do in the future but get to do it now. Also I was told by the adjuster I definitely have a claim for diminished value compensation so you should make sure to get that too.
Your stock exhaust would be ~$1500 so the top speed would pay its self off unless your car will be totaled then I dont think it would matter anyways. But nonetheless I wish my nismo was never hit and Im sorry to hear that something similar has happened to you. Best of luck
BTW I also got altima hybrid that Ill be rocking for at least another 2 weeks while the car getting fixed :/

Update: My Z was taken today from the yard where it has be kept since the wreck and was transfered to a salvage yard. An assesment of the damage should be done either today or monday. I then will be waiting on my insurance to let me know what will happen next.

This has to be the most annoying process ever!! More annoying is that when I was driving the Z I would never seen any nice cars on the roads to mess around with, but now that im in the Altima I see something sick all the time. Last night I saw a pack of 350s and 370s on the highway rolling together :( this sucks!!!

My first Z was totaled and no it wasn't my fault lol. But mine had a little less damage than what yours appears to be. Hopefully they total yours. Mine was only a year and a half old at that time.

Believe me, I understand. I saw a 40th today and started to wave and then remembered I'm driving a brown Cube.