Exhaust removal

[ChevelleSSLS6]

1. Can I remove an exhaust off a 99-up GA GT enough so I can take my hacksaw and remove the muffler? I tried the hacksaw from under the car, and it was an awful pain in the arse.:mad: I gave up. Removing by removing exhaust mounts, pulling exhaust out the back and swearing at it.

2. How on earth do the exhaust mounts come off? I pulled and pulled and pulled, damn.:( Those things are stuck om there!:roll2:

3. what would a SE 3400 with no res and GT muffler sound like?
Thanks,
matt

p.s. that setup will be temporary, I'll do something more serious when I get a job, and there's a fairly solid 77 LeMans coupe with mint interior from the junkyard I need to save. Excellent for a Michigan car.

[Colin]

Stainless steel is hard to cut with a hack saw , you will probably need a cut off wheel or a power saw with a high speed steel blade .

[mopowr79]

Stainless?? I don't recall the SE exhaust being such. When I installed my SLP, I cut the exhaust in the front of the rear wheels and in the back, by the muffler, took maybe 5 minutes per cut. As for the exhaust mounts, the best course would be to soak them with WD40 or something similar, then use a pair of long screwdrivers to push the mounts off, it may take a bit of swearing and slipping, but it will work. Are you using a set of ramps while doing the work, if not it is well worth the effort. Lastly, the GT exhaust is about 1/4 inch larger in diameter, so you may need an adapter. An SE 3400 without a resonator will be kind of loud in the interior, but with the GT muffler it shouldn't be too bad. I have the SLP setup with a FLowmaster 80 series and it sounds really nice, mopowr79

[jayhawk]

Stainless?? I don't recall the SE exhaust being such.


It is. Even my low end sunfire has stainless steel exhaust.

[ChevelleSSLS6]

1. I have a dremel tool. It cuts stuff pretty good.

2. The car is in a pick-yur-part and is up on homeade jackstands (1960s pontiac Rallye wheel welded onto the side of a plain steel wheel so it forms a upside down T. There are 2 or 3 of these holding the car up. Sadly, there were a lot of sharp musclecar rims sacraficed for that miserable duty.)

3. Could I pull it out the back, I'm more interested in the muffler for the short-term. If I can get the whole piping out, then I'll do the whole GT exhaust; cat-back.

4. even my old car (1993 Saturn, I miss it) had stainless steel exhaust.

5.mopowr79, you mean that you have SLP pipes, and the flowmaster 80 muffler, right? I think so, but I'm just clarifying.

[ChevelleSSLS6]

So, could I pirate a 99+ GAGT exhaust system by pulling it out through the back of the car?

[1992grandam]

ud hafta cut it sumwhere and honestly cutting just the muffler off would be SUCH an easier job then anywhere else.....jus get good sawzall and a GOOD metal blade....trust me it can be done...easily with the right stuff, ive modded the exhausts on 3 of my past GA's...