Had to cut off my Y pipe, while doing my header install. it is welded to the cat. The dremel was like a miracle tool. anyone ever done this or am i the only insane one??

 

i used one, well started to use one when i was cuttin off my stock stuff from the end of the ypipe back. i went thru like 3 blades ( the strong ones) and then i got the sawzall and cut right thru everything in a minuate

 

screw the dremel, its all about the sawzall

 

AHHHHHH, the mighty sawzall, :hail:
Turns a total exhayst system into total scrap in minutes.

Chop saws are good when working with pipe off the car




BTW, dont use the dremel, especially if it isnt yours and your brother doesnt know your using it, to cut 3 inch exhaust.
I went nuts looking for those

 

Turns an exhaust into scrap in minutes? How about turns a whole car into scrap in a mater of minutes! The exhaust takes mere seconds.

Seriously, there isn't a better tool for rapid exhaust cutting than a sawzall. I've used high speed cutoff wheels, air chisles, and even the mighty blue wrench, but nothing is better or faster. I never even considered using a dremel. That sounds like masochism to me...

 

I've used one quite a few times and NEVER had a problem.

You have to have a steady hand and a little patience. Something nobody seems to have these days.

 

I suspect it'd take patience and plenty of time. Im my experience it seems cutting tubing with a rotary tool is more difficult than with a reciprocating saw......

 

Who needs patience when you can just get a bigger tool to do the job?

 

When I did my exhaust I thought about using my dremel to cut the pipe - for about 10 seconds. I then got in my truck and went to home depot and bought myself a Sawzall. Never know when you will need one of those... Actually, they had them on sale so my dad got one for Christmas also... For cutting exhaust pipes etc there is nothing better than the Sawzall.

I did use the Dremel tool on the project though. After I got the headers in it was obvious that there was going to be a clearance problem with the flanges on the header collectors. I used the dremel grinder to grind the flanges slightly on one side to ensure that there is no rattle...

One thing to look out for - and this is the voice of experience - is that sometimes those dremel grinding wheels will come apart. This happened to me and b/c it had been grinding away at high speed it had gotten very hot. I was lying under the car doing this grinding so the rock landed at the base of my neck when it broke off and immediatly began buring skin. It wasn't too bad. A bit painful but it left a very nice red mark there for which my poor Girlfriend took a bit of abuse... Folks were accusing her of being a real Wild Woman. She is but that is another story LOL...

 

I used a Jig Saw.... that’s all I had but it worked well.

 

I use a hack saw to cut exhaust on the car. Can be faster than a dremel depending on who's doing the cutting.

 

Yikes, sounds like hell to use a dremel. A Sawzall is best. Can do the job in seconds. I cut the roof off a hardtop camaro w/ a sawzall once, that took only minutes. Live by the sawzall, die by the sawzall!

 

NO, but I dug out of prison with a teaspoon!

 

Did they have Dremel tools in 2003? (kidding)

 

 

Dremel tools are forbidden in any shop or garage operated by anyone over the age of 12.

As for exhaust - cordless sawzall is the answer if it's on the car. Chop saw if your fitting and (TIG) welding.

GD

 

Why would you use that? Sawsawz are 10 bucks at harbor freight. Quick and easy. One of my favorite tools. Not to mention my angle grinder but damn I love the thing. I can shape things and make tools also cut things all sizes and shapes. Really the best tool in my toolbox. Taking a dremel to an exhaust pipe is like using tin snips to mow your lawn..... Take you all day buddy. Haah

 

16 years later...

Yes, but they didn't have Sawzall tools.

HF store fronts weren't all that common in 2003. They were mostly catalog order, and just getting brick and mortar sites established.

 

+1 for the Sawzall. I have gotten my money's worth out of a few of them between home and auto work.