Sorry guys ,Chris wasn't in to sick with the flu,so a bit short staffed to process the orders,they are made and will start sending them out tonight,if we don't get chance to do them all today will be on first order first send basis.

Ian

P.S. we have 10 ordered.Thank you

 

Lol @ Scooby-si

 

Apart from the 2 3" system all the down pipe have gone out tonight.

Ian

 

Thanks Ian,

Best warn the wife to expect it tomorrow now. Oh ****, that mean's she's going to want to know what it is.... "Er, it's your christmas present dear"

She's going to kill me for spending money on the car this close to christmas!

Karlos

 

not telling her just going to leave it and let her sign for it get her to open it and when she see's the bb ,say bugger me thats come soon, and at the same time get some flowers sent

[Edited by scooby-si - 11/11/2003 9:43:20 PM]

[Edited by scooby-si - 11/11/2003 9:44:12 PM]

 

Karlos

tell her its a xmas present for the car m8

forgot on the last post

ps, give her ians phone number and tell her its ians fault lol

[Edited by scooby-si - 11/11/2003 9:49:04 PM]

 

txt from missus " Strange exhaust type thing just arrived, you never said you were buying anything "

ooops ...

[note to self: buy flowers on way home...]


Steve

 

HAHAHAHA! My wife hasn't phoned yet, but I don't know if thats a good or a bad thing!

 

lol @ stevem2k


flowers m8 works everytime all i get now when i get her some flowers is,wot have you bought now

 

well iam safe now sent her some flowers with lol

[Edited by scooby-si - 11/12/2003 6:00:41 PM]

[Edited by scooby-si - 11/12/2003 8:16:52 PM]

 

Fitted mine at the weekend, took about an hour or so.

Impressed with the preformance improvement but not overly impressed with the fit.

DP looks well made, nice welding etc. But the bracket for securing to the back of the gearbox was a mile out (well about 10mm - which is far enough in this context). I had to drill another hole in the bracket to be able to put the bolt back in, and had to put about 5mm of spacer washers behind it to stop it putting too much stress on the bracket and hence gearbox casing.

Although this was easily done - I didn't expect to have to do it - Dissappointing.

Anyone else have any problems or is my chassis knackered

[Edited by Scratch - 11/19/2003 10:29:40 PM]

 

Scratch that is the first time we have heard of that,from either a indivual or a supplier.If that was a one off we apolgise.

Ian

 

Ian,

Just a quick question. Mine went on well (classic MY97), didnt have the alignment problem as noted above but struggled to get the turbo heat shield back into place. Currently it is attached by just 1 bolt! It appears not to be wide enough to accomodate the flared wider neck of your downpipe where it bolts onto the turbo - is this normal?

I will have another proper look at the weekend (as now my heat shield vibrates!) Just wanted some pointers before i maul with it.

Cheers,
Ian

 

You have to cut the heat shield to accomodate the extra width of the down pipe.

Ian

 

Thanks Ian. Didnt want to make any changes until I was sure. Was too concerned with a test drive to be worrid at the time.

Sounds great by the way!

 

Just leave the heat shield off! I think that's what most people do, as they break eventually anyway and rattle like buggery

 

Is yours wrapped Karlos?

 

did you mean "Warped"? My heat shield was screwed before I changed the downpipe. Rattled like a bugger so instead of modifying it and putting it back on, I left it off. Spoke to the guys at Scoobysport first and they said that this was common thing to do..

 

No wrapped. Wrap the downpipe in exhaust heatwrap. Keeps the d/p heat out of the engine bay , and is supposed to improve performance as the gases cool further down the exhaust system.

Steve

 

Oh right! <embarassed> :/ What would you wrap it with, and please excuse my ignorance

Karlos

 

had mine put on my 8 yesterday... sounds great, turbo whistles during hard exelleration now...
having trouble working out whether it's quicker now than before.... there is no 4,200rpm "boot in the back" feeling, but I assume that's because there's less turbo lagg..?
Or is the car be running too lean now?
Any idea's??

 

Cheers Stevem2k
Err,

I think it's easier to do this with the pipe off the car, just in case you're considering it. If you need more info just use the search button. There were a couple of threads a couple of months back, including info on suppliers, prices, etc. I think cost is something like £15 but you do need quite a long length of wrap.

 

Rally Designs for the wrap. 50ft of 2" allows plenty of overwrap. You will need some stainless clips too in order to keep it all secure.

Steve

 

Guys,
Do you need the celfix with just the downpipe?
Alex

 

which my ? Pre-bugeye you don't.

Steve