| Here is a pic of the Kooks. Stainless steel construction. 1 3/4 inch diameter primaries. |
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| The Kooks Stainless Steel Catted Y-pipe with Magnaflow cats. |
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| Trans Am up on jackstands ready to pull the stock manifolds and Y-pipe out. |
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| Here you see the crushed stock Y vs the Kooks Y. The stock looks like a straw. Imagine trying to expel exhaust through that! |
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| Here is a shot of the drivers side cat. You most likely will break every single bolt when removing the stock Y from the stock cats. |
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| Tools of the trade. Plugs out, stock wires out, stock manifold bolts & gaskets which will be re-used. |
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| Stock exhaust manifold vs Kooks Longtube headers. Is there really any need to point out how well the Kooks will flow? |
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| My partners getting dirty while I take pictures. :-) |
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| Passenger side up and sitting pretty. |
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| Had to remove the oil filter to get the Kooks in, and lift the motor, but this was a chance to change the oil and filter. |
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| Drivers side bolted up with new MSD wires hooked up. |
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| Shot of the completed passenger side. |
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| Awesome clearance with the Kooks setup. Pop can (Standard unit of ground clearance) nearly fit under the cats!! |
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| It DID fit under the Y-pipe! INCREDIBLE!!! |
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| No danger of this system hitting some gnarly speedbumps or anything! |
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| Things you will need for this install. |
1. Headers ;-)
2. Off Road Y-pipe (ORY) or Catted Y-pipe
3. Header bolts or Re-use stock bolts
4. New GM gaskets or Re-use stock metal gasket
5. Bosch 13111 (Vette Rear O2s) or #6
6. Extensions for your stock front O2s
7. If you are using an ORY, O2 simulators for your rear O2s
8. Antiseize
9. NGK TR55 Plugs
10. 3 Stainless Steel Band Clamps (Came with my Kooks Catted Y)
11. Dielectric grease for the plug wires
-Use some anti sieze on the header bolts
-Torque to 11ft lbs the first time (starting from the center out, then go up to 18 ft lbs again from the center out)
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| Some clips with the headers. First one is headers only. Second one is a warm start up and some reving. |
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