Mid/Test Pipe Install help

[Antoniogut]

most shops wont do it cuz its illegal here in CA to remove a cat but im sure i can find a 'cool' shop thatll do it for me

 

[ericrapp]

it seems like your having the problems i did if the bolts arent reaching its cause they're not long enough i had to get longer ones. if its anything with the hangers cant help ya =\

The rear bolts are still not long enough! Cork responded to that in an email to me a ways back and said they made appropriate change?

 

[ericrapp]

my bolts were on there so tight i couldnt even move em. after jacking the car up two separate times i decided to go to a muffler shop, took em 30-45min and 40 bucks. well worth it imo. Ive installed DP's and CBE on WRX's and a saab 9-3 and it wasnt as difficult as this car.

i had to jack the car up more so I could use a breaker bar on those, 40$ is a good price imo.

 

[UHATEIT]

I'll be doing mine this weekend, I hope its not hard like you guys are saying. In Ca its illegal so i cannot find shops to do this for me, and none of them would cut out the cat so I was forced to buy a straight pipe. I would imagine with POWER TOOLS, like an air compressor these should come out easily right? I watched the muffler shop air compressor work like a charm.

Hey Lestat this is your thread man, did you ever get this thing installed and how hard was it once you figred out what to do???

 

[Speed3Rookie]

Test pipe was cake.
No need to remove anything except the big black brace.
Use WD40 to lube the rubber hangers.
I have the SLS tp and the stock bolts were too short where the tp bolts to the dp. I just went to Advance and bought a couple of shorter exhaust springs. Worked like a charm.

 

[dkswim]

repplacing the mid pipe is simple 30 min to an hour. and you have to do it if you do the DP anyway.

 

[lestat13]

I'll be doing mine this weekend, I hope its not hard like you guys are saying. In Ca its illegal so i cannot find shops to do this for me, and none of them would cut out the cat so I was forced to buy a straight pipe. I would imagine with POWER TOOLS, like an air compressor these should come out easily right? I watched the muffler shop air compressor work like a charm.

Hey Lestat this is your thread man, did you ever get this thing installed and how hard was it once you figred out what to do???

Oh s***, I forgot about this one!! Haha!!

I ended up buying a corksport downpipe as well. I'm going to have a shop install them both for me. I figured if I am not 100% sure of it, I am not going to risk f*cking up my brand new car.

 

[UHATEIT]

I bought a used protege garage testpipe and will be doing it this weekend. I hope I wont need to get any new screws or gaskets or anything like that. I just want to use the stock s*** and bolt it right up. My step dad has power tools and a compressor so it should hopefully come on and off easily

 

[Antoniogut]

alright guys i just did it this weekend...man this thing is awesome definately notice a difference in power and deeper sound/more pops + growls (if that makes sense)

all i did was jack up the front pretty high, get a ratchet with an extension so you can get the test pipe to downpipe bolts and then remove the black braces( youll see which ones since they are in the way) they are really easy to uninstall/reinstall...
as for the bolts to the test pipe/exhaust part ya SU's test pipe came with the right size but you just need some long threaded bolts...

all in all its actually a simple install i was afraid to do it but i got under there with a friend and as long as you have the right tools itll be easy...

 

[UHATEIT]

mine is a used protege garage test pipe. I just hope i dont have to buy more bolts for it. Once the cars up in the air on jacks, if I find out, its a 5 mile walk to autozone for bolts and then 5 mile walk back if i need bolts. Any ideas on the PG pipe if it would require more bolts (I assume that you are referring to bolts exactly like the stock ones but with more threading???)

 

[Antoniogut]

no idea on the PG but i didnt have washers so i ended up usin my buddies bolts and he had some transmission bolts that were semi long but had alotta thread and those worked just fine...i wish i had a picture for ya