Got myself a 140 Amp CS144 yesterday, and today I picked up the fiberglass Z28 hood I saw yesterday. Gotta fix the edges with fiber/bondo, just slightly bent, because I had to strap it down real hard while transporting the hood on top of the roof of my Camaro.

Junkyards and leave/vacation is a good good combo

Tomorrow will be busy, picking up front WS6 springs (got the back ones already), getting my intermediate exhaus pipe/Thrush Magnum combo welded on (so I can get a smog check done, hopefully Saturday and go to the DMV next week)

Would be nice to have some time to R E L A X !!!

I hope you saved your stock air cleaner. You will need it with the heat riser tube hooked up to pass the visual part of the smog test.

Yup got it, yeah I know the Thermac crap and everything's needed, got it all, and I got my pipe/muffler combo welded on today. It rattles like hell in all gears except Park though, due to the pipe hitting the suspension part a tiny bit, but I'll play around with it a bit and fix it, can't complain, the guy did me a favor, 20 bucks, welded it on, TIG welded it nice and clean.

What part of the suspension is it hitting? If you can cut a bit of heater hose and zip tie it to the suspension part that is being hit, that might help. The other method would be to pick up some header wrap and wrap the pipe where it wants to hit the suspension.

Damn it, one part I've never been able to remember the name of, the one that's parallell with the panhard bar.

I know what you are talking about. It is a bracket that is actually part of the panhard bar, I think. I think you can wrap it with rubber where the exhaust pipe hits it.

It's that, trying to push the pipe up, or third option .. remove the pipe and put a ding in it

It's ANNOYING

Is the pipe routed over the top of the bracket and then hitting it from vibration from above? If you put the car up on jack stands, You might be able to put a wood block between the exhaust pipe and the body, and then use a jack farther down the pipe to bend it up a little. It will probably only take a 1/2 inch deflection to keep it from hitting.

When we installed it, I think we managed to get the pipe hmmm a few degrees off, if you look at it, underneath the body it's not 100 percent parallell with the floorpan, so I may try to push it up somehow, I was even thinking about removing the exhaust hanger, drill two holes in the bracket that's on the pipe and go straight into the holes that are made for the hanger.

Just be careful, the v8 has stronger exhaust bolts than the v6's. I had a muffler shop replace a cat on a v6 Rs I used to own. The guy didn't get the pipes cut right, so he had to force them into line. A few months later I met Don, and took my car to his shop. Some of the exhaust mounting bolts had broken off in the heads! Fortunately he was able to get them out without too much difficulty.