need help with installing fabspeed bypass pipes

[ChrisZang]

back to my original post, for those interested:

After I took 3/4 of an inch from the passenger side pipe it now fits like a charm.
No adjustments needed on the driver's side. The pipes are original fabspeed pipes, the seller is Suncoast Motorsports in Florida. They had the pipes sitting on the shelf for a year as a return from a customer and they wanted to get rid of it, so I got lucky.
Apparently the clamps got lost in the shuffle in the year the pipes were in storage, but two exhaust clamps from the Pep Boys did the trick

And, yes the new sound: I love it

[crios]

Chris, I was bidding on the same set on Ebay, you beat me by $2!! LOL

I noticed one of you Mods in your sig. was "gutted exhaust". can you explain?

[jmatta]

Chris, glad to hear you got them in finally. I still find it interesting that you had so much, trouble compared to the rest of us who installed them. In any case, don't you just love the sound that comes in around 3800 rpm?

[ChrisZang]

Originally Posted by jmatta

Chris, don't you just love the sound that comes in around 3800 rpm?

Actually it sounds much better across the whole RPM band.
I have a "DSE" (Dan's Sport Exhaust, see http://www.babblers.org/forums/showthread.php?p=48230 for details) and while this mod already sounded great, it really came to live with the bypass pipes

[ChrisZang]

Cesar,

thanks for letting me have it then
About the gutted exhaust: I had a local shop open up the exhaust from the top, remove most of the baffling, shorten the resonance pipes inside the exhaust and weld it close again (all the details can be found somewhere inside this thread: http://www.babblers.org/forums/showthread.php?p=48230 ). As all the "damage" was done from the top there is no way anyone can detect the mod. Well, at least not by eye but definitely by ear

Originally Posted by crios

Chris, I was bidding on the same set on Ebay, you beat me by $2!! LOL

I noticed one of you Mods in your sig. was "gutted exhaust". can you explain?

[releese78]

If anyone else gets a CEL after installing Fabspeed pipes or removing cats some other way, I found a fix. After reading a little bit, I tried installing spark plug de-foulers on the second set of O2's and it worked. You have to buy (4) 18mm inserts (can get them at any local auto parts store for a few bucks). Drill out 2 of them so the O2 sensor head will fit, then screw those into the second set so it brings the sensor out of the stream and limits the exhaust sample. Been driving it all week and the CEL has not come back on.

***Sorry to nab your post Chris, just figured this might help being that it's a relatd topic***