I think I hold the record for longest exhaust swap...
... just jacks too!
02-23-2009, 02:24 PM
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BTW. Thank you for letting me use your exhaust. It saved me some money. I'll give you a call after I change it out again then we can meet up.
02-23-2009, 05:50 PM
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I think it took Noah at LIC about 25 minutes to change mine.
Money well spent I'd say, but then again I don't have a garage or a bunch of friends that would think about trying to do something like that...
Money well spent I'd say, but then again I don't have a garage or a bunch of friends that would think about trying to do something like that...
02-23-2009, 06:58 PM
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I once watched the Levy boys swap out an up-pipe in 40 minutes..Subaru has it booked at a half day job.
02-23-2009, 07:20 PM
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Yeah.. so I changed my exhaust for my first time, with some friends who are novice mechanics.
We started at 4pm and finished at about... 1am. hahaha
First, it took us a while to find safe jacking points, and we ended up searching google for help. Then we ran out of room in my friends garage.. so we had to move things around.
After that was completed, we had the daunting task of removing seized bolts for a LONG time. Then there was the removal of that one bolt on the turbo closest to the intercooler.. oh and the O2 sensor for us newbs was a pain.
It was a good learning experience, and I found some goodies on my car.
It has what looks to be Cobb or Cusco sway bars... they are blue, and some purple plate things in the shape of a "C" that connect to sway bar and tie rod... maybe?
We started at 4pm and finished at about... 1am. hahaha
First, it took us a while to find safe jacking points, and we ended up searching google for help. Then we ran out of room in my friends garage.. so we had to move things around.
After that was completed, we had the daunting task of removing seized bolts for a LONG time. Then there was the removal of that one bolt on the turbo closest to the intercooler.. oh and the O2 sensor for us newbs was a pain.
It was a good learning experience, and I found some goodies on my car.
It has what looks to be Cobb or Cusco sway bars... they are blue, and some purple plate things in the shape of a "C" that connect to sway bar and tie rod... maybe?
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