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  • #91
    Plenty of meat there & the elongation is only 3mm on a 10mm stud. Most of the DPs are sold with elongated holes anyway.

    I appreciate that you have done it the "right" way but when you start doing all that it suddenly makes a cheap 2nd hand DP expensive & it would have been better just to buy the right unit in the first instance.
    carandimage The place where Off-Topic is On-Topic
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    • #92
      I'm thinking at the end of the day, I'll leave this to the discretion of my local exhaust shop. It may be that I have them fit the exhaust and do a 3" catback all in one go. All in all, it doesn't seem like a cheap exercise and I will likely leave this till end of the year or next year.

      If anyone could recommend a place to do the work based off personal experience with a reasonable rate, I'll be happy to check them out.

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      • #93
        Originally posted by brad View Post
        Plenty of meat there & the elongation is only 3mm on a 10mm stud. Most of the DPs are sold with elongated holes anyway.

        I appreciate that you have done it the "right" way but when you start doing all that it suddenly makes a cheap 2nd hand DP expensive & it would have been better just to buy the right unit in the first instance.
        until you look closely at it, you wont realise that there is a significant difference between the two hole locations.

        get a factory gasket, line it up to your down pipe and check it out. you may as well cut two notches out of the side wall of the flange, no amount of drilling will make it 'clean' etc.

        do it properly the first time. but its your car

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        • #94
          Originally posted by zei20t View Post
          until you look closely at it, you wont realise that there is a significant difference between the two hole locations.

          get a factory gasket, line it up to your down pipe and check it out. you may as well cut two notches out of the side wall of the flange, no amount of drilling will make it 'clean' etc.

          do it properly the first time. but its your car
          I've seen them modded & the result looks factory. Was even looking at a multi-fit ex-factory unit at Parso-Rex's place the other day & it was fine. I guess it depends on what the flange looks like in the first place, whether it's worth attempting.

          I work in an industry where a lot of our assets are 100+ years old & you can't buy parts so you often have to bodge something up to make it work until you can get a custom fabrication done.

          Doing it properly the first time is nice but if your trying to do it cheap then maybe you have to be a bit inventive.
          carandimage The place where Off-Topic is On-Topic
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          • #95
            That straight pipe exhaust won't be loud at all... on a diesel. Murderous on a petrol - don't do it.

            Also, Liverpool Exhaust built my cat back. Good job and its held up since 63,000km (193k now!!)
            2012 Octavia vRS TDI. Darkside big turbo, 3bar tune, other stuff. 200kW/650Nm.
            1990 Mk1 Cabrio. 1.9 IDI w/ 18PSI.
            1985 Mazda T3500 adventuremobile. 1973 Superbug. 1972 Volvo 144 in poo-brown.
            Not including hers...

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