[Nezil]

Originally Posted by jessetaylor1

1. Do I need any special things to jack the car up and use jack stands?

I went through this in my post, but to be more clear...

You'll likely need a low profile jack, and one that will be able to pump with very little movement on the handle. I used this one: https://www.harborfreight.com/3-ton-...ump-62326.html.

Even with low profile and rapid pump, you still need to get the whole body of the jack under the front bumper because the center jack point is so far back. I did this by jacking the car on one side, as normal, with a shaped hockey puck that I made, and then put 2 inches of wood under one of the front wheels. That was enough to raise the car to put the whole jack body under and raise the car up.

For the jack stands, I modified a standard set of these jack stands: https://www.harborfreight.com/3-Ton-...nds-69597.html.

All jack stands that I'm aware of, have a cupped shaped head, which I guess would be used to support a rear axle or similar, and are almost entirely useless for most modern cars.

I used a diamond grit blade in a reciprocating saw to cut the sides off the head, and then hot glued a section of a hockey puck into the cup to provide some support. This modified head now fits into the factory plastic cup jacking points.

I'll go and take some photos to show what I mean...

Originally Posted by jessetaylor1

2. What female star socket sizes do I need for the install?

E10, and it's just for the centre exhaust hanger. Unbolt it to move the exhaust to the side.