I asked the same question in halfords a while ago when I was looking at exhausts. The guy had to phone up magnex to find out if the centre pipe was included. It turned out that the £180 price only includes the downpipe. The centre section will set you back an additional £60 (if pipe only) or £110 (if resonated/boxed). Backbox will be extra again if you need one of these too.

By the way, I ended up just going for centre pipe without box and didn't bother with the downpipe after I heard about how big a job it was to fit. I have a prodrive backbox and when I fitted the centre pipe there wasn't much difference in the volume of the exhaust noise compared to standard centre section, just a wee bit more of a rumble. Did notice that the turbo seemed to spool up slightly quicker on take off

Ian


[Edited by BEL - 11/6/2002 10:48:33 AM]

 

Scoobyjawa, I will have the same setup as you on a MY99 - does it make a big difference? Also, do you get flames out of the back (with a VTA dump valve)

[Edited by akshay67 - 11/7/2002 4:22:44 PM]

 

I really want to decat and from all the searches I have come to the conclusion I should get the Magnex centre section and down pipe (price/quality/performance).

I went to halfords and they sell the Magnex 'Cat-by-pass system' for £185.

Q:
1. Is this what I need or is this some half-measure?
2. Is the price right? Seems too cheap
3. I guess I won't be getting a resonator - what difference will that make.

If I order this tomorrow and have it in next week

PS - I have a SS backbox on a UK MY99

Thanks in advance!!

 

There's some stuff here

It does sound cheap - how much will they charge to fit ? The downpipe can be a bit of a bugg'r !

 

At £185 i would imagine that it is only the downpipe.

 

Doesn't include fitting - will get my local garage to do that!

This is what it said:

'Front Cat Replacement pipe and down pipe arrangement from Turbo back'

Is this both the centre and downpipe?

 

£185 sounds like the downpipe only. The centre section pipe is about £60 I think, with no silencer, or about £100 with a silencer.
IMO Still about the best value around, and excellent quality.

 

get a scoobysport de-cat one, they are nice and a bit more. Easy to sell later if you come to sell the car etc.

 

u can get a open neck hks for that price, call dal on 07817965778, he normally gets it next day

 

Would you really want a Halfords fitter to be messing with your Scoob? hehehe

 

Save your self some money there is one for sale here (sorry dont know how to do a proper link) http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/BBS/thread.asp?threadid=147629
Mart

 

Downpipe makes the biggest difference and having fitted one myself, I wouldn't say it's 'easy' but it's not that hard a job for your average grease monkey...

 

When my downpipe was fitted one of the studs was a bit awkward - I was glad that I opted not to do it my self and that Mr Croney was fitting it. It is also one of those jobs that really needs a proper lift to do easily.

The wide neck ones involve cutting away part of the heat shield too........

 

is the Magnex downpipe a wide neck one? i.e. will it require cutting the heatshield? I'm gonna get my local garage to do it!

And is a centre-pipe without a resonator annoying? I don't mind the noise as long as the car doesn't start vibrating!

 

All DP's require the heatsheild cutting AFAIK and not having the resonator will make hardly any difference, only a bit louder.

I have the Magnex DP, non res centre and SS BackBox