No, I just bolted up short pieces of the stock pipe coming off each manidfold, they saved them for me here at a local yard so that I'd have enough to bolt in my 02 sensors, The drivers side was right against the frame, the exhaust shop took the stock piece of pipe off the manifold and made a cut on the backside of the pipe, reinstalled it back on the manifold and used a bar to bend it away from the frame, then took it back off and patched the opening with some scrap exhaust, he was actually pretty creative and it looked good when he was done with it, from there it's a true dual setup with X pipe section and bassani mufflers and bassani tips