Sandals

Welcome to the club!! One mean looking car you have there!

New gasket ordered from ICP... Should hopefully get it sorted next week!

Yeh was tightened up evenly, even tightened other exhaust parts in turn to make sure everything pulled together fine. I'll just buy a new gasket, they're not expensive. Cheers Savage!

So my smokey saga continues! Just finished taking my entire exhaust off to put new heat wrap on my up-pipe as the old stuff had oil in it and causing smoke. While doing this, I installed my prodrive sports cat downpipe and put everything together without much issue, I was a bit cheeky and reused my downpipe gasket which was brand new a month or so ago, so still looked brand new. But obviously I have an exhaust leak, it is coming from the top between the two bolts. I've attached a pic and you can see that there is a visible gap, but I cannot tighten the bolts anymore. Would a new gasket sort it out do you reckon or do you think I may have to use a little sealant to help, some threebond perhaps? (which I have)

Welcome top the club!!

This is what I use and it works great! https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FOIC3I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Haven't told the wife yet... hence why it went straight into the garage :D

That looks absolutely amazing! Glad you're happy!

I was gonna just get it remapped with the standard downpipe but saw this on ebay along with the decat mid-pipe (which is for sale :D) for a good price... I've worked a lot and got a good overtime payment so couldn't pass it up!

Yup, you can get an OBD2 reader for around 10-15 quid... this will tell you what the error is which you can then research. Or clear the error and see if it comes back. Could be an old code that has been fixed, but not cleared.

Hey guys, Just bought a prodrive downpipe which came with this decat mid-pipe but since I already have a decatted one this is surplus to requirements! Fits between the centre pipe and the downpipe. Has the hole ready for the o2 sensor so you can plug it straight in and not get a CEL Fully heat wrapped £60 delivered Can pay either via a direct bank transfer or via paypal, if you elect paypal you can send it as a gift to avoid fees.

Prodrive sports cat downpipe arrived today!!

Welcome to the club! I've yet to drive my Scoob in the snow... was looking forward to trying it but had nowt for 2 years!!

They are supposed to be pretty good... you could always look into getting a new centre pipe or decatting the pipe after the downpipe to release some more noise

Glad you managed it! Took me and a mate the best part of two days to do mine!

What are you running at the moment?

I think i'm losing a few mpg's due to a busted o2 sensor...

Did you manage to get it fitted?

Those arches look amazing!

No problem :D

The big red bit is your intake manifold

Love the colour :D

According to the government website: • to demonstrate the operation of a vehicle, its accessories or equipment, when being handed over to a purchaser and delivering it to the place where they intend to keep it. Don't think the rozzers would look twice :D https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/519019/guidance-notes-vtl301g.pdf

I spy a good build thread coming :D

It's relatively straight forward but a bit of a ball ache! 1. Buy plenty of WD40, plus gas or something equivalent to help cracking dem nutz... I used this stuff (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181947923794?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT ) and it is cracking stuff (pun def intended) 2. Remove the turbo heatshield, there are several bolts holding this in place. Just feel all around it to find them all. Some are easier to access from underneath the car. 3. Once the heatshield is off... crack and loosen the downpipe bolts, probably be easier to remove your entire exhaust to give you plenty of room. Unbolt the downpipe from the gearbox from underneath the car, then fully remove the downpipe. 4. While under neath the car, remove the heatshields on both sides of your exhaust headers, this will give you access to the header bolts, crack them but don't remove. 5. You will need to get most of the wheel arch liner out from the drivers side to gain better access to the bottom of the up pipe bolts, crack and remove them. 6. Fully remove headers, warning... they are flippin' heavy! Or I'm weak... on or the other :D 7. Crack all of the up-pipe bolts from up top and remove, up-pipe will now be lose. You may have an EGT sensor in your current up-pipe which will be a pain to remove... or do what I did and just cut it off :D 8. Now you need to wiggle the up-pipe out from underneath, you may need to jack up that side of the engine to give you a but more room. 9. Do the reverse to fit the up-pipe... use genuine gaskets to prevent having to do this all again when cheap after market gaskets fail :D That should about cover it :D