How much room do you need under the car to install a typical cat-back system?

Is it a driveway/jack stands type of job or do you need a lift?

Probably getting a Hooker setup. Bottomed out the rear on this nasty dip on Brambleton, and tore both tail pipes off the muffler. So much for my original '86 system.

 

I did mine with a set a jack stands. You really only need to get the rear tires off the ground that way the suspension is bottomed out. Other than that you are gonna spend some time on your back, my be a little cramped up near the front of the car, but nothing too bad.

 

Put the intermediate pipe on the ground with the over-axle pipe sticking straight up. Then add a few inches. That's how high you'll need the car.
Make your life easier and use four stands and get the whole car off the ground.
While you're jacking it up, do it in stages so you don't twist the car. Jack up one side, set it on the stands, jack up the other side higher than the first, set it on the stands, then jack up the first side, readjust the stands, and set it down again.

 

Jack up one axle then the other like the front end then the back end or ya just might
twist it. If ya don't have good jack stands and a floor jack, take your car and the new exhaust to a muffler shop and pay the man to install it.
Not worth having the car fall on your head...

[This message has been edited by F-BIRD'88 (edited November 06, 2001).]