on my subaru i have a prodrive full stainless exhaust with decat . i just bought the car and it has 10 months mot,the guy said he had it tested with this exhaust on ,would it pass the emissions test ? do i have anything to worry about for the next test ?

 

anyone know ? has anyone had an mot with this setup ? or another decat setup

 

My car is decat. I'm guessing that it will struggle to pass the MOT as is

TX.

 

if it's got a proper prodrive PPP exhaust then yep it'll pass. it's got a sports cat in the downpipe, the decat bit is the next pipe after. not a clue how to check this when it's on the car though!

terminator X, time to find a friendly tester mate

 

well all i know is its a prodrive lol nice news

 

That still possible now that the stations are linked to the DVLA or whatever it's called

TX.

 

so i need to find out what exhaust i have either that or its possible to find the friendly tester as mine passed 2 months ago with this exhaust on it

 

When you find him let me know

TX.

 

Yeah they just stick the probe up the exhaust of an ozone friendly car.

Andy.

 

^^ Excellent! Time to start buying the boys at local MOT station a beer or two

TX.

 

Not sure what exhaust you've got but we don't sell a full stainless exhaust with decat. If you've got a PPP exhaust either with our downpipe or the std downpipe, it'll fly through an emissions test.

Mike

 

all the guy said that i bought it off is its had a full stainless prodrive exhaust with decat ...if i look down the back of the engine i can see what looks like a box on the exhaust very square... immediately after the turbo . and just following that there is a heat shield round the exhaust ,is this a cat ? there is a sensor screwed into the box.... ??

 

if it looks like this then you've got a prodrive sports cat downpipe and like mike said, if you've got either that or std it'll pass.

depending on age your downpipe (if prodrive) may have a sort of blanket where the ribbed section of the pipe is. this is a heat blanket and on later ones it was internal.

 

thanks for the pics i would need pics of a standard one as mine dosent seem to look like that instead of the larger round section i have a square box ,like a backbox

 

just looked at mine again and its not square lol ... its like a big round pipe with two flatter sides .... about 3 times the size of the exhaust outlet,just after that theres a heatshield,and betwwen the heatshiled and the odd shaped box theres the screw in sensor

 

crappy pics but its my phone lol ,







this help anyone ?

so maybe this is the same as yours but has the heat shield lol ,i wish someone could identify this ,i assume there must be a cat as the sensor is screwed in

 

this is a std downpipe,







this is the std 2nd pipe (this is decatted on the PPP exhaust)



if it doesn't look like either of the pics no idea what you've got. sorry.

saying all this though mate, have you got a classic or newage? your comment about the sensor has got me thinking, the newage looks like the only sensor is in the 2nd pipe whereas IIRC the classic has a sensor in the downpipe.

 

it looks very much like the one with youre leg in it lol and i have a 1995 wrx jap wagon ,wish i could see mine better

 

ah, sorry mate. been leading you on a wild goose chase there, the newage (mine in the pics) and your classic are different exhausts. your exhaust has 3 parts (downpipe, centre section then backbox) mine has 4.

your downpipe does look like a catted one though, like you say it's like my legmaybe the rest is a prodrive system? good news is it should get an MOT pass

 

ok been out again lol its almost identicle to youre first pic but it says subaru on the side that faces the engine not the same side as yours ? doubt that matters then it goes straight out through a straight stainless pipe so i seem to have the first bit but not the second

 

thansk for all the help anyway its very similar to mine ....what i need now is someone to post pics of a classic downpipe ,if it matches mine then its only had the second cat removed wich means i can pass an mot ....so can anyone else supply pics of a classic downpipe ?

 

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