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, Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:51:47
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...dealt much with the automotive aftermarket.
I recently finished installing a JT 3" exhaust in our '92 9000T. I'd bought it a year-and-change ago from Engstrom, and ended up with the wrong center muffler ('91-style, the '92 had a larger OE center muffler and the hangers moved) and apparently tailpipe.
At any rate, I found the pieces to be decently well-made, the center bits had to be cut to accommodate the cat (the cat Engstrom provided was a US EPA-legal model, not the piece JT apparently supplies outside the US which isn't EPA-legal) in the OE location (that is, under the seats, not way up at the crossmember), and I ended up welding up new hangers for the center muffler using some 3/4" steel strap and the hooks off the old exhaust. I think the center muffler could have fit better if it were angled a bit less, but everything does clear.
Some of the sections for which clamps were provided (the front and rear of the center muffler, the rear of the front downpipe) simply didn't have room for the clamps (the problem with trying to put a 3" pipe in the stock location) and I ended up welding those sections as well and installing the thing as basically four chunks (the downpipe+16" stub back to the cat, the cat, the stub behind the cat+center muffler+pipe over the axle, and the rear muffler.) Likewise, the front crossmember hanger was too bulky to clear the crossmember, so I had to cut the screw-clamp part off and weld it to the pipe. The tailpipe was nowhere close to fitting, so I ended up at the local muffler shop where they managed to scrounge a decent 2 3/4" stainless S-bend out of the scrap bin and weld it onto the rear muffler (and reinforced the floppy rear hanger while they were at it.)
So it all fits reasonably well, clears everything, works good, sounds right, not a complete bolt-in but better than what a lot of the automotive aftermarket has to offer.
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, Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:51:47
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