ok so cars up on ramps ready to remove headers and up pipe tomorrow i have sprayed as many nuts as i can see with wd40 and will do a few more times befor tomorrow any tips in advance for removing i.e what bits first?
and also tips on fitting harveys ported ones and matched up pipe?? i.e all together or headers first etc all advice is greatly appreciated!!!!!

 

will be doing mine soon to. remove downpipe bolts then can remove uppipe an old headers. refit uppipe first then match up the headers after

 

remove downpipe bolts? then up pipe? so im completly disconnecting the turbo pretty much?

 

yea mate i think its the best way to get to upppipe bolts. unless u want even more pain of a job. thats the way i gonna do it eventually

 

anyone else got any good advice? so start at turbo then

 

oh by the way its a 2003 engine in a classic if that helps?

 

some1 wrote on another thread that they done it without removing the downpipe but its a bitch to align back up but can try that way

 

ill post p how nice a job to do in a bit lol

 

right so got headers off no problems and bottom of up pipe no probs all the bolts came off fairly easy then got the top nuts off downpipe but yeah i see couldint get in to the underside ones and had to remove the downpipe also then its easy getting the up pipe was a bit of a nightmare also had to remove both engine mount nuts and jack engine up around 10mm to wiggle it out but thats it all done in total took around 3 hours bearing in mind have never done it before lol! would have fit it back up but waiting on diffrent up pipe coming tomorrow

 

IMO the best way is the take the turbo off, then you can bolt the new uppipe to it on the bench to ensure a good gasket seal. Then bolt it all back on then downpipe back on, then finally headers on.

 

well as it sits its gonna be up pipe back on in morning then downpipe then fit headers to suit all new gaskets and wrench up unsure of the torques yet

 

tar for that mate at least i know how the job will be

 

none of it was hard or time cosuming but getting the downpipe off was tricky got them all off from top except one right at bottom had 2 use 2 extensions and a knuckle joint i think it helped i had been spraying wd40 on as many as i could see since the night before

 

yea mate i didnt realy have tools first time around an there was 1 certain bolt i cudnt get to i think this is the one u talkin about. think mine are all dead tight so hoping that none snap on the job

 

i had to grind one bolt from heatshield and one sheared on headers apart fron that thay all came off without too much hassle but without extensions and the joint would have never got the underneath bolt on downpipe