You need to remove the side panel or at least remove enough fasteners to pull it out enough so the stock muffler will have enough room for removal.
It's....exhausting...work
It only adds about 10 minutes. My joke aside, it's really not a tough job. Which exhaust are you replacing it with?
Makes life much easier if you remove the panel.
Watch the bolts and don't over torque when reinstalling. Suggest hand tools only. Saw a lot of broken torx head bolts at SSITS because of cordless impact guns.
Makes life much easier if you remove the panel.
Watch the bolts and don't over torque when reinstalling. Suggest hand tools only. Saw a lot of broken torx head bolts at SSITS because of cordless impact guns.
Good advice...I don't have any impact tools, all hand tools
Putting on a welter duel, passenger insulation package, QA1s, injen CAI....and a neutrino fuse box...that's why I'm removing the old exhaust system...to cool down that area for the fuse box install. I want to use all that wasted space behind the glove box for aux wiring and I don't want to burn anything up. It's a long way to go to get some usable under the hood space...but I'm worth it LOL
Makes life much easier if you remove the panel.
Watch the bolts and don't over torque when reinstalling. Suggest hand tools only. Saw a lot of broken torx head bolts at SSITS because of cordless impact guns.
Not to defend whoever you saw break those bolts but I have broken plenty with hand tools and very week force applied to them.
I have been replacing mine with stainless from ace(quick and dirty just to get by) now during winter one of my goals is to find a source for a torx so i can have permanent replacement.
Right now i have a mix/match set of them some allen some hex and that is driving me crazy plus also drives crazy people that work on my sling because of the different bolts everywhere(sorry Troy).
@Neosolidus you need get with @gpcustoms.
He has been doing bolt replacement for a while now. He has several posts on this, but is a wealth of information.
@Neosolidus you need get with @gpcustoms.
He has been doing bolt replacement for a while now. He has several posts on this, but is a wealth of information.
I have seen his post, the thing is he did Titanium and buying those will cost more than my sling, some of them go for 20 a pop 
@Neosolidus reach out to him you might be shocked. He has found some awesome deals
When I removed the factory exhaust I removed the entire panel to install the variable exhaust.
When I swapped out the variable to the Welter, I loosened enough bolts to slide the panel out a few inches which was all I needed If you go this route, prop the side panel up while it is loosened.
When removing the factory exhaust wear shop gloves. Very easy to bust your knuckles or cut yourself getting the springs loose. Plus getting the push pin fastener out on the side panel sucks, no room to work.
The springs are the worst
For the springs, you can get this set of tools from Harbor Freight for 2 bucks. The hooked one works perfectly if you just grab the end of a spring with it (wearing gloves) and pull.
4 Piece Pick and Hook Set
Flybuddy took the words right out of my mouth get those tools they will be a life saver.
Here is a video
My SS is in the shop so I can't look at it...if you put the SS on jack stands will the factory muffle come out the bottom?
Nope
Having just done mine to fix exhaust and replace, the lower panel with the fender is all I removed. I didn't touch the back lower panel as in the video for step one. Speaker pod first and about 13 screws. If you take your time its maybe 15 minutes.
