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Howdy folks,
In the quest to make my 1998 K2500 Suburban with the 454 in tip top shape for my upcoming move home to TX, I ended up damaging the front (Bank 1) cat and went with a Magnaflow direct fit to replace it (P/N: 4451470). It's a very nice looking unit, mandrel bent pipes and decent quality gaskets. No hardware to attach the section to the rear cat and muffler section though.
After fighting to get the OEM front pipe section, hence forth "downpipe", out I tried to install the Magnaflow unit. I immediately ran into problems where the drivers side pipe section, which is separate, hit the front driveshaft. I tried various different approaches but the fact of it is the curve of the pipe is too tight to clear the driveshaft. Interestingly the same P/N is listed for the C2500 with the 454 which makes sense that you'd just have an opening for the non-existent driveshaft to pass through but it doesn't work in reverse.
Unfortunately they're closed for the weekend and I have to have this thing back on the road Monday. Anyone else run into this?
Thanks
In the quest to make my 1998 K2500 Suburban with the 454 in tip top shape for my upcoming move home to TX, I ended up damaging the front (Bank 1) cat and went with a Magnaflow direct fit to replace it (P/N: 4451470). It's a very nice looking unit, mandrel bent pipes and decent quality gaskets. No hardware to attach the section to the rear cat and muffler section though.
After fighting to get the OEM front pipe section, hence forth "downpipe", out I tried to install the Magnaflow unit. I immediately ran into problems where the drivers side pipe section, which is separate, hit the front driveshaft. I tried various different approaches but the fact of it is the curve of the pipe is too tight to clear the driveshaft. Interestingly the same P/N is listed for the C2500 with the 454 which makes sense that you'd just have an opening for the non-existent driveshaft to pass through but it doesn't work in reverse.
Unfortunately they're closed for the weekend and I have to have this thing back on the road Monday. Anyone else run into this?
Thanks