ecarca
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I purchased Fabspeed pipes to remove my secondary cats. I have the pipes with the 4 cats on them, sometimes referred to as "Euro spec" but I guess there was actually European delivered cars that came with that pipe having the 4 cats and some of them with 2 cats on the headers and 2 cats on the pipe. The Fabspeed is supposed to fit the US spec but I thought I could cut and weld it somehow and that proved to be wrong. If anyone is interested by the way, I have 2 brand new pipes for sale.
As you can tell, these are quite different:
At least I was able to install the X-pipe (also from Fabspeed) at first. It was a little tight on the rear but it worked eventually:
I then decided to go for a custom job because I was quite frustrated not to be able to fit them. The factory I went to (yes they do call themselves like that) did not have the capability to take care of the squashed part, nor had high flow cats in stock, so I decided to use the stock pipe as a base. I believe that the squashed part as it is is not restricting the flow that much or at all. I did not put the car on a dyno and probably won't but I know for sure it did not impact the sound!
Here are pictures of the job:
https://picasaweb.google.com/ecarca/CustomCatBypassJob02?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJOCjPDi1-eCdQ&feat=directlink
Let me tell you I am very very very pleased with the result!!!
Here is the video I took just after the install:
[video=youtube;Asu9qxiOQeA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asu9qxiOQeA[/video]
And I shot that one a couple of days ago:
[video=youtube;xZ6INiGozo4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ6INiGozo4[/video]
Enjoy!
EDIT: fixed the link with the pictures
As you can tell, these are quite different:
At least I was able to install the X-pipe (also from Fabspeed) at first. It was a little tight on the rear but it worked eventually:
I then decided to go for a custom job because I was quite frustrated not to be able to fit them. The factory I went to (yes they do call themselves like that) did not have the capability to take care of the squashed part, nor had high flow cats in stock, so I decided to use the stock pipe as a base. I believe that the squashed part as it is is not restricting the flow that much or at all. I did not put the car on a dyno and probably won't but I know for sure it did not impact the sound!
Here are pictures of the job:
https://picasaweb.google.com/ecarca/CustomCatBypassJob02?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCJOCjPDi1-eCdQ&feat=directlink
Let me tell you I am very very very pleased with the result!!!
Here is the video I took just after the install:
[video=youtube;Asu9qxiOQeA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asu9qxiOQeA[/video]
And I shot that one a couple of days ago:
[video=youtube;xZ6INiGozo4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ6INiGozo4[/video]
Enjoy!
EDIT: fixed the link with the pictures