Didn't have a lift or the urge to go up on blocks or wood. I backed up on a loading dock, chalked the tires and all was well in about an hour. Sure wish that guy who did his in 5 minutes had been there.

 

 

Look again... the rear is sitting on my "Chuck Approved" Norco 81222, 22 ton jack stands. That thing wasn't going anywhere.

 

I took mine to a muffler shop and paid $50 to have them swap my stock exhaust with the Ti's. I thought about doing it myself.....for about 2 seconds after I saw how high you have to get them car off the ground using a jack/wood/jackstands... ....I don't know about you, but my safety is worth way more than $50.

 

Here's my experience (written 3 years ago).

Received my latest order from Eckler's yesterday; a velocity stack and smooth air coupler. Purchased the Ti's a week ago. Already had the Blackwing and hood seal installed.

So with everything in hand I first put on the VS & coupler then my step-sons (SS) came by to help me lift the car and install the Ti's.

Getting the car up was easy (actually kind of a slow process). Unfortunately we didn't use the same sequence bringing it down so things almost got out of hand! (Read on)

In one instance as we were trying to bring the car to the ground we had one of the jack stands collapse because the pin wasn't seated properly before we put weight on it. That wasn't too cool but fortunately no damage done!

Then our final configuration for final lowering was the pits! We had lowered the front wheels down on 4x8s under each. We had jack stand under each of the rear pucks.

Our goal was to raise the car at the rear cross member just enough to pull the jack stands out then lower the rear to the ground. But we forgot something. Can you guess?

With me on one side and step-son #1 on the other, step-son #2 started raising at the rear cross member. Every thing was going good at that point. SS#1 got his jack stand out from the passenger side but mine wasn't budging.

As my SS#2 kept slowly raising the jack two things were happening simultaneously. One, my side was getting loose and two, THE CAR WAS JUST STARTING TO ROLL BACKWARDS OFF THE 4x8s. We didn't chock the front wheels.

Woo-hoo! Eeeeek!

In an instant just as I was able to rapidly pull the jack stand away from the drivers side rear puck the car rolled backward off the blocks. At that moment SS#2 who was working the jack in the rear realized what was happening and instantly released the hydraulic pressure on the jack allowing the rear of the car to fall the last six inches to the ground.

Wow! we did it without any damage or injuries!


Here's a pic after the driver's side Ti was installed (Z06 tips on left stock tips on right). Notice the rear of the car being held up by the swaybar and the yardstick, hehee...



Loosening the bolts holding catback to H-pipe. Swaybar is wrapped to keep its paint from chipping.



Twisting passenger side stock muffler out. Gee, a lot of hair everywhere. Too bad none of is on top the head!



Greybeard (me) and SS#2 wriggling stock muffler out (I've never been keen on wearing shoes but I do love knee pads! )



Positioning new Ti in place.



After wrenching on Harley's for years I must say, cars are much easier.

Final results: I didn't think I was going to notice much but I can honestly say the car has way more pickup than before the VS, smooth air coupler, Blackwing and Ti's were installed.

SS#2 followed me around a bit. He said when I got on it hard it sounded excellent to him. He said he was about 5 car lengths behind me but could hear it roaring as I punched the gas in second.

I'm very pleased with the results.

Here's to my boys and all the great posts people before me have written describing how to do this installation.


..rickko..
Postscript: Don't try this unless you have some ramps for the front wheels and can chock them well!

 

Thanks everyone for your input, I had a shop install them today, They look a lot better than the small ovals that were on the car.
Bill K

 

As I said I got me TI exhaust installed Friday and am very pleased with it, I paid a shop to do it and it cost me 70 bucks and was worth it, I didn't feel safe after seeing some of the pictures posted in this thread doing it myself, It does sound and look a lot better, I think it also feels a bit more responsive. Here is a before and after picture.
Thanks again for all your input.
Bill K
Before


after

 

Real sharp Bill, those TI's do make a difference, in appearance and performance, I like looking at mine along with that butt.
Good job at the shop, that's the route I went also.

 

Then Bill had to stick it in my garage, just to help the garage look better. Looks good Bill. You made a good choice on the install.