Need To Borrow A Skyline Cat With 3inch Flanges

[some_cs_student]

Hey,

So I bought a stainless steel 3 inch high flow cat with no flanges.

I work roughly 9-6PM during the week sometimes later so I waited till this Saturday to take out the compliance cat and ring around.

I found a shop in Moorabbin that would do the flanges for $50, so I dropped round, he didn't have 3inch flanges so he offered to take the flanges off the compliance cat and put them on the new cat.

I said ok.

He has somehow managed to add 200 to 300mm onto the length of the new cat and I cannot fit it into my exhaust system, the new cat was the correct length before he added this length.

So does anyone have a compliance/standard/aftermarket 3inch cat that I could borrow for a day or two so we can compare the measurements?

I have an engineering friend who offered to do the welding correctly (very bad welding too), BUT I need a cat to compare to so we weld at the correct length and angle.

Happy to put down some kind of deposit of course, just advise me if you can lend it to me for a day or two.

Oh, and I've booked into RacePace Wednesday so I need it soon.....

Anyone have a cat I can borrow? Please....?

I will offer some cash for the lend...

Oh, if anyone can confirm if R33 GTST/GTR and other models are the same cat that would be great

Regards,

Gareth

[justin911]

the stock gtr cat flanges are 2.5" inch, if he welded them on your 3" cat, wouldnt that defeat the purpose of the 3" cat ??

ive sent you a pm btw, i might be able to help.

[some_cs_student]

the stock gtr cat flanges are 2.5" inch, if he welded them on your 3" cat, wouldnt that defeat the purpose of the 3" cat ??

ive sent you a pm btw, i might be able to help.

Compliance cat had 3 inch flanges because I had a 3inch exhaust

The compliance cat was ok but now its pretty much destroyed so I can't sell it

Don't think it was worth much anyway...

Regards,

Gareth

[(B1) MR_fanny]

i hate it when people do work below par to reasonable expectations. common sense would have said to match the length of the old cat to the new one when he was doing the work and nothings uglier than a half assed weld job..lol.

[some_cs_student]

i hate it when people do work below par to reasonable expectations. common sense would have said to match the length of the old cat to the new one when he was doing the work and nothings uglier than a half assed weld job..lol.

Yeah, ripped off pretty bad.

Justin911 has offered me something that I can measure in the morning and return to him before the evening, so I'm taking him up on the offer and getting it welded by someone who knows what there doing.

The place I went to was an exhaust shop so you'd assume they would know what they're doing.

Regards,

Gareth

[some_cs_student]

Ok, so we took it and spent a couple hours, 3 holes in the welding on the "good" side, a few centimetres taken out of the other side and we smoothed out the area between the flanges and the cat, one side its even, exhaust headers to cat its a tiny step down (fraction of an inch, we decided to leave it but to smooth it out).

Lining it up without a jig was a bit of a challenge but its perfectly lined up.

So its in the car now and done properly, I strongly recommend against get any work done by a particular shop on Chesterville Rd Moorabbin near the intersection of Keys Road.