Fitting DP & Cat - How To? (LCR)

[JamJay]

Is there a guide to this? I tried yesterday and it's a complete PITA by the looks of it. The turbo is alot further up than I thought when going in from underneath and it looks a tricky job going from twinpipe & twin cats to a large single pipe and cat. There also appears to be a heat shield by the turbo and I have no idea how to remove this either.

Can anyone help or is it a job for a tuning garage?

 

[turboboy]

if you have no idea id say its a job for a garage, some say you have to drop the sub frame to get the dp off, but as i said if you dont have the correct tools or have no idea my advice is dont attempt it

 

[JamJay]

Sound advice and i'm inclined to take it if there isn't an 'easy' way to do this. I have all the tools but not the knowledge I fear.

 

[JamJay]

I enquired about fitting at AMD and they say that it can't be done to an OEM cat back system. This surely can;t be tru as I know some of you have gone this route, the pipes cant be differemt lengths can they? I am sure the connections are the same too.

 

[dave_ph]

with regards to getting the the DP off, it can be done without messing around with the subframe (as Bill and I managed it just about, however the car was on the ramp)

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

I enquired about fitting at AMD and they say that it can't be done to an OEM cat back system. This surely can;t be tru as I know some of you have gone this route, the pipes cant be differemt lengths can they? I am sure the connections are the same too.

Could it be the diameter of the downpipe and the standard system are different?

 

[JamJay]

As far as I know the OEM system on an LCR is 2.5". The DP is 3" all the way through, connecting to 3" Cat but the other end of that shrinks to 2.5" so it should all line up nicely.

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

Ahh rite, on mine the downpipe was 2.5" and the standard system was smaller so I had to change the whole lot at once

 

[JamJay]

It's an odd one, I am waiting for them to get back to me to say why they couldn't do it on the TT they tried it on.