04 wrx cat / downpipe
 

Hey guys,

Hoping you can help a guy out in a bit of a pickle.

Right, so my bugeye 54 plate wrx (uk non sti) is in need of a new cat downpipe, its a daily driver / family car, so not looking for a decatted downpipe. Problem is, i cant seem to identify which one i need. Ive looked on ebay and various breaker pages, they generally all say fits the newage blobeye / bugeye varients, but looking at the pictures, their all different lol, so some obviously wont fit, and i dont want to get the wrong one. Ive asked the sellers of the items, but no one has replied to me.

So i was hoping you guys could help me out, will a downpipe from say the earlier bugeye, fit my blobeye, or is each year a unique fit?. Im running a standard exhaust system, apart from ive had the second cat after the downpipe removed, and im running a prodrive backbox, all direct replacements for the original parts, so nothing out of the ordinary.

Hope you guys can help, cheers, Andy :-)

bug/blob will be the same, hawks are a little different. Sometimes you see them in 2 parts, some aftermarkets are both parts together in one pipe.

Something like this:

http://www.cobrasport.com/media/cata...ust_su71_1.jpg

Would replace your downpipe primary cat and the rear cat. Or you can go for a prodrive one:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.sco...5a90d261c1.jpg

and then either stick with your existing rear cat or ideally replace it with the decat pipe
http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps30811d4a.jpg
That's the prodrive cat again on the left and the second cat delete on the right.


And 2nd cat delete on it's own:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.sco...905db78592.jpg

Sometimes the prodrive cats have a little divider in the bell mouth/turbo end of the pipe that sticks out and it needs ground back a little to help it mate up nicely to the TD04.