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ditto^^^

If you could move it that would be good Ska, thanks heaps

Hey guys thanks heaps for the positive comments. Yeah sorry about the no pic thing but i was at my mums house and i didnt have my camera with me unfortunately and i didnt even think to take it with me before i left. I definately think it spools up faster and it also feels faster overall. The spool is also a lot louder in my opinion. I would have loved to have had a chance to get it dynoed before and after, but unfortunately like a lot of people i am on a budget and just thought it would be better for me to get it all dynoed once i have done a few more mods ie: fmic, pod or high flow air box filter etc... Simon

During the week i received my 3" split dump/front pipe and High Flow Cat (catco) from BATMBL. Decided id give it a go at fitting it myself. So i started by removing the sensor that is screwed into the cat. Next the bolts that hold the original cat to the cat back system and the bolts from the cat to the original front pipe can be removed. (16mm ring spanner) Once this is done the cat can be removed. Next was to remove the front pipe from the dump there are only 3 bolts holding these 2 items together but are very friggen tight, so either use a rattle gun or a piece of pipe on the end of a ratchet to get better leverage to loosen these bolts. Next you need to get out from under the car and move to the top of the bonnet, now the O2 sensor needs to be removed, all you need to do is unclip the wiring which is a plug easy to find just follow the wires from the O2 sensor to the plug. Now get a shifter or open ended spanner and loosen the O2 sensor (wasnt very tight). Next you need to remove the heat sheild from the turbo. There are about 6 or so 10mm bolts holding the heat sheild on which can be seen by looking in between the strut tower and the turbo (when removing these bolts make sure your car has cooled down). Once the heat sheild and brackets are removed you now have access to the bolts that are holding the dump pipe to the turbo. There are 4 13mm bolts and 2 13mm nuts holding the dump pipe on, you will need to hop back under the vehicle to gain access to the to nuts which are relatively easy to get to and get loose. The other 4 bolts you will be able to get access to from the top of the bonnet, i found it was easier for me to go down to repco and buy a 13mm ratchet ring spanner to get these bolts off save a lot of time and makes life a whole lot easier. Unfortunately one of the middle bolts broke off whilst undoing it, so next time i send my car to the mechanic i will be getting him to fix this. Which means removing the turbo and drilling it out. So i think i will go a stainless manifold at the same time this gets repaired as the turbo has to come off anyway. Once you have removed the dump pipe get some 800 or 1000 emery paper and scrape/sand all the gunk (gasket goo) off the back of the turbo housing. Once the surface is clean and dry, check and make sure all your bolts fit through you new dump pipe properly, i noticed on mine that 1 of the bolts i could not get through its hole because the split part of the new pipe (bit that comes from the back of the wastegate) and the bolt being the length it was could not be angled through. So back down to repco it was for me to find a smaller bolt 20mm fitted perfectly (better to take down the new dump and check for yourself). Whilst you are at repco if you dont already have some buy some exhaust cement i think is what it is called, if you think that you can get away with some average gasket goo used for rocker covers or the like you are wrong and for the sake of $5 and the possibility of getting an exhaust leak and having to go through this whole process again, you are better off just getting some. Now you should have all neccesary tools and bolts and goo to finish off the job. Clean off the origninal gasket which goes between the dump and the turbo (if the gasket is broken and stuffed better off getting a new one) make sure it is dry when finished cleaning. Before you go ahead with the next step check to make sure your dump pipe is going to fit nicely but test fitting it on the back of the turbo. Unfortunately Mine did not allign properly so i had to drill out the holes where the bolts in the dump pipe went through so the bolts aligned with the holes in the turbo housing. Now get your exhaust goo (read the instructions before opening packet as all goo`s are different) Squeeze some either onto your finger or straight onto your gasket and apply a nice even layer around the whole gasket, once you have done this you can put the gooed side straight onto the back of the turbo. Now do the same thing but squeeze the goo onto the dump pipe facing. You may need 2 people to get the new dump pipe alligned as you will need one person underneath the car o lift the new pipe up and allign it onto the 2 threads sticking out the back of the turbo housing while the person at the top of the car screws the bolts through the new pipe into the turbo housing. Once you get all the bolts screwed on as far as you can by fingers you can go ahead and evenly tighten up all the bolts nice and firm. You can now go ahead and screw you O2 sensor back in and connect it up, and if you like you can put your heat shield back on (i left mine off). BEFORE YOU PUT THE CAT ON MAKE SURE YOU CHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE IT THE RIGHT WAY! ie: the hole for the sensor goes towards the back of the car on the passenger side. Next is the the highflow cat, back under the car clean the surface of the cat back once again make sure it is dry once finished cleaning. The new cat came with new gaskets for between the the dump and thr cat and for between the cat and the cat back. Once again you may need 2 people to make life easier, now apply your exhaust goo to the end of the dump a nice even layer again and same goes for the cat, now put your gasket in between and you can hold the 2 together while putting the bolts through and finger tighten the nuts on the end. Apply the goo to the other end of the cat and to the cat back (even layer again) put your gasket in between, hold the cat together with the cat back while someone else puts the bolts through and does the nuts up finget tight again. Now you can go ahead and retighten all the bolts with a spanner pretty sure i used a 16mm ring spanner, once all the bolts are done up nice and tight screw the sensor back in. Now your done. All i did now was start and run the car until it was at normal operating temperature then i turned it off let it cool down a little bit then went back over all the bolts just too make sure none of them had come loose! If i have left anything out feel free to tell me, and if i remember something that should be in there ill add it later. Cheers Simon

Car looks very nice yudy, My mate works across the road from racepace and he said he saw you leave racepace the other day, he said the car looks very nice. Congrats and have fun. Simon

Thats the bomb, mmmm drifting mmmmm stagea

When i got the Stagea from Chris it had: Fujitsubo Cat Back High Flow Turbo Some form of aftermarket coilovers 18" Work rims Jaycar DFA Jaycar EBC I have sitting here ready to go on : BOS Stainless Split Dump BOS Catco CAT ARC Frount Mount Thermal Flex Blue 4mm and 6mm vac hose Davies Craig Auto Cooler (came with the car from chris but was not installed) Stagea Air Deflector (still waiting to hear from Bass Junky like everyone else) Before the end of the year i plan to have these mods bought and installed: Oil cooler and relocation kit Defi Gauges (boost, oil temp, oil pressure) EBC (get rid of jaycar one) Whiteline swaybars and camber and castor kit Trust PE11 Catback (hopefully) Personalised Plates Anything else my parents/siblings or relatives might get me for my 21st Hopefully one day i will get these (distant future mods ) : Manual Conversion (early next year if i dont buy a second car) Power FC New Wheels Better brakes or stainless lines Re-Spray Thats about all i can think of at the moment as i do more ill update. And if ive forgotten anything and i remember ill update

thats cool, looking forward to the rest of the write up

Nice write up there Terminal. Also just wondering where did you get your manual centre consol from and what did it cost you if you dont mind me asking?

That is an awesome result well done! I would really love to know what mine will make? I want to get it dynoed as is and then once i bolt on all the parts too see how much of a difference they will make.

Yep got my dump and cat today looks mint, shinier than any other part on my car lol, and its going underneath the bloody thing. I think i am going to install it myself.

That ute is sooo mint, i want that rear bar

Early next year mine will be going from very faded red to a nice venom red possibly black bonnet not sure yet, with white wheels.

Thankyou

do you reackon air box would fit stagea?

Has mine been sent yet? Also awaiting my cat

Well i just bought a cooler the other day, i bought an ARC crossflow cooler suited to R33, on an R33 they bolt up to all standard intercooler piping so no cutting required of any kind. But seeing as my car is a stagea there is a possibility that i may have to get one or 2 pipes made or the ones that come with the cooler adjusted to fit up to my pipes. All i know is that it will be perfect for me because i wont have to modify the air box or air snorkel at all. I will post up pics once i install it Ps. Sorry Alex offer was too good to pass up lol

Im gonna give mine a wash today ill post up some pics later tonight

Trust PE11 Cat Back Stainless for Stagea Price please?

Dammit didnt make it in, i must be still in the womb hahaha

Cruisliner: thats is awesome, but like alex said in melbourne the cops have just gone over the top with defecting cars that are basically safer than most older model cars thats are on the road. Alex: ill message you tomorrow

Dont forget i would like to pickup. Ill pm you my mobile number.

Ok then so i should be sweet with a kit providing i get the kit installed properly the cut is not bodged and hacked and all sharp edges are covered.

change attessa oil/fluid

Can someone tell if there is much difference in performance or anything really between alloy pipes and stainless pipes? Cause im tossing up between getting a kit with alloy pipes which would require me to cut a hole in the battery tray which is illegal here in melbourne unless you get an engineers cert. And there are not many places here that mandrel bend alloy to get a couple of the pipes custom made so i dont have to cut a hole. I might just buy an intercooler and then get some stainless pipes bent up custom. Ideas?