Muffler Removal - Car Height?
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Burning Brakes
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From: Lake Havasu City, AZ
St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'11-'12
Muffler Removal - Car Height?
After a search on Muffler removal (05 C6), it seems straight forward and fairly easy. The only question I have is how high must the rear of the car be to get the mufflers off without cutting the axle pipes? I am limited to 10" tall ramps (and maybe some wood planking) for this job. Is that enough?
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Team Owner
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Your going to have to get the rear higher than that to clear the bend of those pipes comming off. I used a lift on my 05 vert, they twist down quite a bit.
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Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'11-'12
Thanks, I was figuring I would need to have the car roughly as high as the muffler assembly is long - about 36". Is that closer to reality or does the twisting required minimize this dimension???
Melting Slicks
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I just changed to a set of B&B Rte 66's, and used Blitz 7" ramps with a 2x10 plank under them. I just jacked the car up, put the ramps under the tires. You will have to jack the car body up some, (unload the suspension) to get the over axle pipes off/on. The tires never left the ramp surface.
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From: Northern NYs Adirondack Mountains,http://www.visitsacandaga.com.
Going by memory here (it was done in June 05) but I think the mufflers had to go down about 2' to give the room necessary to do the job.
Hopefull some one else can jump in here with better info than I can give. Like I said I had a lift and it was a while back
PS once the old system is off the new stuff goes on easy. My system Corsa said to pull the x pipe first. That proved to be good advice.
Hopefull some one else can jump in here with better info than I can give. Like I said I had a lift and it was a while back
PS once the old system is off the new stuff goes on easy. My system Corsa said to pull the x pipe first. That proved to be good advice.
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I just changed to a set of B&B Rte 66's, and used Blitz 7" ramps with a 2x10 plank under them. I just jacked the car up, put the ramps under the tires. You will have to jack the car body up some, (unload the suspension) to get the over axle pipes off/on. The tires never left the ramp surface.
You dont HAVE to unload the suspension to get the over axle pipes on/off....I did it without doing that, although that may have been easier.
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Melting Slicks
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I've removed the stock exhaust from all my friends cars using only ramps. 10" ramps are plenty high. The only thing that gets in the way is the sway bay, which im sure you know you will have to drop. Just unbolt it from one side and swing it down, that will give you all the clearance you need.
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08-'09-'10,'14
I just changed to a set of B&B Rte 66's, and used Blitz 7" ramps with a 2x10 plank under them. I just jacked the car up, put the ramps under the tires. You will have to jack the car body up some, (unload the suspension) to get the over axle pipes off/on. The tires never left the ramp surface.
I had mine on 3 2X12s (each side) and then lifted the body. I put an old rug down so when I had to do the twisting the tips didn't get scratched up hitting the garage floor. Had no problems.
Melting Slicks
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I've removed the stock exhaust from all my friends cars using only ramps. 10" ramps are plenty high. The only thing that gets in the way is the sway bay, which im sure you know you will have to drop. Just unbolt it from one side and swing it down, that will give you all the clearance you need.
Melting Slicks
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Thanks, I just saw a video provided on Ecklers website that is a start to finish how to install a new exhaust system. Everyone that is about to do this change should watch that video.
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Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'11-'12
Thanks Cody....Here is one of several video links to that subject.
http://www.ecklers.com/product.asp?p...1778&video=yes
http://www.ecklers.com/product.asp?p...1778&video=yes
