You are not going to believe what I pulled out of my muffler...

[Greg Hazlett]

Hmm..ok...I will give it a shot!

 

[Riptide]

lol "kool-aid" wtf

Sounds like they aren't standing by their product very well. Good luck Greg.

 

[fdjizm]

For the price of kooks, they should def. come with better cats!

 

[LAllison20]

LOL..thanks Luke....I need to thank Otis for noticing it, if he had not said something I would have tried another pass and that would have been the end of that engine.

What kind of fucked up karma is that though??? Otis saves your engine with his observation, but loses his the next day on a casual drive?

 

[JeremyH]

What kind of fucked up karma is that though??? Otis saves your engine with his observation, but loses his the next day on a casual drive?

Very true! That blows!

 

[Deez-67]

your right can't believe that.... Geez us

 

[DraggnRoush]

When I needed to pass inspection, i researched cats & found that for FI, metallic HFC were recommened. I used these & haven't had a problem after runnig a whole season on them:

http://www.brenspeed.com/cvm11k.html

 

[bullitt boy]

Is there an O/R H pipe that bolts right up to the KOOKS long tubes?

 

[Boozshey]

Yes... I have one for sale...

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Really....hmmmm....

 

[Boozshey]

I will post details later.

 

[Greg Hazlett]

PM sent.

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Called Kooks and left a message as well as emailed them what happened...we will see!

 

[Aandf1978]

Is there an O/R H pipe that bolts right up to the KOOKS long tubes?

Well since Kooks H bolts right up to pypes and since the Pypes Offroad H comes disassembled in 4 pieces I would venture to say that a Pypes Offroad H pipe will work perfectly on both Pypes and Kooks Long Tubes Headers. Pypes Part Number: HFM55. I have this sitting in the box waiting to go on my car, Greg's story scared me so I am going offroad and saving the catted H for my visual inspection, unless someone here in hampton roads can hook me up with a "place to go" via PM. Here is the Pypes Offroad H pipe (Sorry for the crappy cellphone pic when the batteries are charged in my camera I can get another one):

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Sorry to make you spend more money Nick but better a little now vice a lot later!

How much was the Pypes setup and where did you get it from?

 

[Aandf1978]

No if anything you opened my eyes and I thank you for it and am glad that neither one of our cars suffered, too bad there were other's before us. I picked it up from brenspeed during black friday for $153, along with my gauges and pillar pod, going to install everything at once. I was going to have a shop do everything at once but that was some crazy coin, about the same as L/T header install, so I am probably just going to bolt up the H myself and run the gauges and maybe down the road weld up the H.

 

[Greg Hazlett]

I think it took me maybe an hour to remove the exhaust from the headers back and swapping in the off road H should be 15 mins at the most; the longest part would be jacking up the car to get under there.

 

[Aandf1978]

Yeah it won't be hard I did that before when I did the shorties, just was kinda amazed when I priced to have the offroad H welded up, talking like $250+ and then with doing the gauges, $475+

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Yikes..was that with Kienen?

The boost gauge is easy to do as well...buy a T from Advance, route the tube from the vent to the engine compartment and you are done.

 

[Aandf1978]

Yeah, them and someone else. Oh well won't be hard once off the ground, if I have some small leaks I'll get it welded later.