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Hi everyone,

As stated above I am fitting my new exhaust tommorow after a long wait for a Cat and was wondering if you guys can give me some advice?

On the front side of the cat on the standard exhaust there is this funny shaped bracket thingy (Yes i know, very technical wording eh!) that bolts onto the floor pan. It is only bolted onto the compliance cat so should I take this off and whack it onto my new system or just leave it off?

Ill try and put a photo up after dinner.

Thanks in advance

Dave

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I know what you're talking about. You should put that back on. It holds the exhaust so it doesn't wobble around, otherwise, it might rattle bolts loose, and cause stress to components etc. It'll probably be alright without one (my friend's 32 doesn't have one), but i'm a perfectionist and I like things perfect.

That part fit perfectly on my 3" cat. I believe it's the bracket at the end of your dump/front pipe, where it meets the cat? If so, that holds the weight of the dump/front section so that it doesn't lever off the turbo and break the bolts or crack the turbo.

  • 3 weeks later...

yeah keep that for sure!!

mine was in between my cat and dump pipe (inside the mounts where the gasket 'should' be) - which i thought was stupid for sealing, so i unbolted it from the body of the car and then reattached it on the outside of the mounts (almost was in tears trying to force it to stay behind the mounts while it was still bolted to the body - but it was piss easy after i unbolted it and then reattached it to the body)

fits perfectly on the outside of the mounts.

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