hogmeat

This pimplefaced-dweeb left a nasty comment with swearing on a youtube video of mine too. hahaha. Go enjoy the car mommy and daddy bought for you.

You just need the right tools. If you don't have a long enough handle, you can't get enough torque. Worst case, go to exhaust shop, and for $10 have then replace your hardware...

read the 1st post. Or search youtube for videos...

Yup. If they are salvageable...if not, it's a standard gasket size. any parts store will have them for $5.

view any of the videos on Youtube. Search Hogzaust.

a crack dealer?

they will laugh at your if you go and ask for an exhaust bolt. Take the bolt to your local hardware store, and tell them you want a bolt and nut that matches that, and 4 sets, and replace all your hardware. stainless steel FTW

maybe you are doing yours wrong? Mine is more a blub-blub-blub, like a cammed V8... hmmm? I guess I've essentially had stage 2 forever, and always been OK...

Yup. I have like 4 vids at the 1st post.

another convert, another brick in the wall. the massive great wall of washers, that is, The Hogzaust.

6800, dawg. and the engine was just getting to it's sweet spot. Dyno couldn't handle any more, they said.

yah, I'm sure it didn't HURT anything, but I seriously doubt there are many gains. ...other than the noise, of course

OMG LOL. That really made me laugh! As to the poster above, yes, just slam some washers inbetween the flange; done. Stage 2, I mean, 2 washers on each bolt (8 total) is a real sweet spot. As for getting apart/back together if you can't muscle it, go to a shop; someone in the last few pages did and for like $11 or something, they took apart and put new hardware in for him.

I can't be stuffed bothering with looking through 116 pages either...

you'll find it "gets quieter" as you get used to it too. My Stage 2 was a little loud at first, then now it's too quiet. lol

yah, I just changed my oil and ditched a 8,000 mile stock paper filter for the "new" AVO filter. It may be my imagination, but it helps. It really does. Or it could just be the clearing my maps and reloading a fresh realtime...

8 - 20 washers at various times and no CEL's or otherwise... I mean, all your doing is reducing backpressure slightly at the mufflers, many many feet away from any type of sensor at all. Don't over-read into this!!

Take it from someone who has walked in your shoes: Gut your downpipe and midpipe cats, and just buy an NEW catless uppipe. Seriously. You don't want to mess with it. The $150 saved is not worth it. I have a new Bosal UP, gutted down and mid - and run PDX Stage 2. Oh baby. The smell in the morning is fabulous. So good I just run my car with the garage door closed a little while to concentrate it. It's like when your pumping gas, but all around you instead. I hope I don't go a little too long one day...

good. I guess some people earlier in this thread were just complainers.

I am just going by what some said - that they didn't like the sound on an auto. I have no experience with that, though. Glad you like it!

woot. another convert. A wagon this time; I don't think there are many of you...mainly because most wagons were autos...

watchu doi'n?! eh??? C'omon!

Holy crap dude, you are New Yorkian...the accent...OMGLOL. Just sounds so strange to a mid-westerner like me. I like it though. Makes you sound mafia-tough. By the way, the deletes have been done too...I bought some off someone who bought them from someone else who bought them from someone else who bought them from someone else...and then I sold them to someone else. They were just pipes with tips on them. Very slick - but very very loud. Too loud to be your everyday car. Maybe the fun track/cruise car...but too loud.

hmmm...cost of new flanges in 5 years? minimal... Amortized cost of new mufflers now? $1,000. Plus, mine have been on for 2 years almost, and I can still take them on/off no problem. No idea why you guys have problems. I'm even using stock hardware, in Iowa. Could be I don't drive that much...

I meant what I said.