MBRP 3" down pipe
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From: Southern West Virginia
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From: Southern West Virginia
Yeah, it's 2 piece. I also did a 6637 intake and 4" straight pipe right off the down pipe. Seems to spool up pretty well and sounds sweeeet! I've only driven it once since I did all of this, I'm still doing some other stuff to the truck. I just bought it.
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A downpipe alone isn't going to gain you much horsepower. You do need to mod the firewall a bit to get it in. A long crow bar or a portapower will do the trick. You should take a sawzall and cut the "cobrahead" of the downpipe and it will slide out the bottom.
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I bought the truck with a bad E4OD trans so I did my down pipe while I had the trans out , so I didn't have to cut the old down pipe, and yes I did fold the pinch weld down (with a hammer) not much though. That will be hard to do with the trans in the way.
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To install the downpipe, use a porta power if you can get access to one. Make sure that you clear the heatshield/insulative material away from that pinch weld. That stuff is surprisingly strong and will reinforce the pinch weld, keeping you from getting a good bend on it. I just used tin snips to cut it away and then used the porta power to great effect.
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