Member
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 50
Real Name: Tyler
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About a month ago, some nice person cut out my driver secondary cat, so my frivolous purchase was warranted. I have to give them credit, though- they made beautiful cuts with whatever blade they were using. Cut my O2 off at the wire, so I still had the plug connection, thank god.
So, I thought about welding custom pipes, getting rid of both secondary cats, looked at the DT Y pipe, but the resonators look too similar to cats and I figured someone might come along and cut one of them out again. Why not spend the $600 and do it right the first time for a lifetime part. That, and I just wanted what was supposed to be my daily driver back, after I bought it because the rear diff went out on my '98 (which is now fixed, but now needs an alternator).
So even though it's spendy, I landed on the URD Y pipe. Granted, it's worth every penny for my situation. The fit was fantastic and the metal work is beautiful. I drove my truck around without the cat for damn near a month with an Xmas tree on my dash. I was sure I had blown out my Air Injection switching valve, as after the install I was still throwing a P0037, P0057, P0102, P1440, and P1443. Turned out to be the 20A EFI fuse that had blown. Switched that out, had two new Denso downstream O2s, and all my dummy lights were cleared and stayed cleared with my code reader. No O2 issues at all, BUT, we have no emissions testing here in MN.
Taking off the factory Y pipe from the catback, one of the bolts snapped, even with the impact on "gentle". So, I was riding around for 5 days with no catback and the new URD Y pipe. A bit quieter than having a secondary involuntary cat delete, but still loud. Got new Bosal hardware and gasket from Napa today, mounted up nicely, but the fit still isn't perfectly flush with the gasket fitting into the factory catback, even with gentle use of the impact. We'll see how long before that gasket blows out, and I don't attribute this as an issue on URD's end, as the gasket fit perfectly onto the Y pipe. Maybe the old gasket is still on there. My stock catback has a rusted-out and missing tailpipe, and a hole started on top of the muffler.
So after all that rambling, the URD Y pipe, mounted up to the stock catback works great- at least for my situation. I drove for a month with my truck on limp mode, but as far as I can tell, acceleration and response feels more smooth to me, but who knows. It's a bit throatier than stock, but still quiet, in terms of what I was dealing with before. No more stolen secondary cats to worry about, and even more incentive to get DT longtubes. I still like the idea of keeping my shi**y, rusted-out oem catback. Maybe I'll rig up a side-exit down the road. Anyway, hope this might help someone else, down the road.
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'98 Limited 4X4 320K (summer truck): OME/5100 lift, LT235/85/16 AT3W WPs, supporting mods, many trails, on 3rd rear diff. Rust.
'05 V8 Sport 4WD 250K (DD, was hoping for pavement princess, turned out to be a work horse): IronMan 4X4 Nitro Gas Stage 2: 2.5" 0-110 lb front, 3" 440-880 lb rear. Sway bar(s). LT255/80/17 Falken AT3Ws. URD Y pipe, Slyfox75 AIP Bypass. Also rust.
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