The Long Awaited: The Myth, The Legend, The Douchebaggery

[SlimKlim]

Considering I have nothing but time on my hands as I'm still waiting for my background check to clear, I did some more housekeeping:





Gave the exhaust tips a polish:







Also pulled the wheels off and gave them a good deep clean and started trying to remove some of the permanent brake dust deposits before giving them another coat of sealant. I pulled the radio out and soldered up the twist and tape job I did years ago which will hopefully fix the left side randomly cutting out.

Yesterday afternoon I ran up to PA and bought an OBD-II midpipe and started mocking up what I need to do to make it work on my car:



Measured the distance of the OBD-II pre-cat sensor from the cat and marked it on the new pipe:



Wrestled out the OBD-II post-cat sensors and stuck in a couple plugs:



I'm wondering if I need to grind down the O2 bung I bought, the sensor is baaaaarely in the exhaust stream I don't know if it would get an accurate reading like this?



I also looked at the outer diameter of the pipes and of course they are completely freaking different than the OBD-I and the headers. I think the walls of the pipes are thicker, so I'm not sure there is enough room between them to use an actual flange. I need to cut them a little long and see if they'll slip over the headers so I could use lap-joint. :dunno:

Does anyone have a sawzall I can borrow?