Fitting A Dump Pipe

[briggsey]

Just recieved my new dump/front and cat, just wondering from anyone that has installed one at home, is it hard or worth doing?, or should i get a shop to install it?

cheers

Paul

[QWK32]

you may be better getting it up on a hoist and have a welder handy as many of the dump pipes out there need a little tweeking to fit correctly. but if you know its going to fit then its not hard to attempt yourself, just do the usually exhaust things, spray a little WD40 or Inox on the bolts/nuts before removing them, and you may need to replace a gasket or two.

Edited December 18, 2008 by QWK32

[M I K E]

pretty straight forward, get a mate around as an extra couple of hands is always handy when you're on your back under your car (ie no hoist)

[GoldZilla]

Make sure you don't burn your hands on the exhaust, that's the last thing you'll want. Either work on the car when it is dead cold, or use gloves.

[zei20l]

+1 on an easy job. and yeah let the car cool down for a few hours AT LEAST after you have driven it.

just make sure you line everything up before you completely tighten the bolt/nuts up because youll just have to go loosen it again when it doesnt quite line up

[DAS KAMU]

the ones that bolt to the back of the turbos

do you need to remove the turbos to put them on?

[M I K E]

^^^ that would be the dump pipes and, no, you won't have to remove the turbos to fit them

[DAS KAMU]

just had a look

will be fiddly

[briggsey]

cheers for info, i've got a stagea specific pipe so hopefully all goes well, goin to try do it all tomorrow

Paul

[mattye]

............ i've got a stagea specific pipe ..........

hey briggsey,

Where'd u get the stagea specific Dump Pipe from/how much did it set u back??

cheers

Mattye

Edited December 19, 2008 by mattye

[briggsey]

hey mattye, got the stagea dump/front from Just jap aye, settled for a JJR bell mouth so was only $200 i think was about $30 for postage, got a catco hi flow while i was at it awell. nice little chrissy present for myself

Edited December 19, 2008 by briggsey

[mattye]

hey mattye, got the stagea dump/front from Just jap aye, settled for a JJR bell mouth so was only $200 i think was about $30 for postage, got a catco hi flow while i was at it awell. nice little chrissy present for myself

nice one mate...should sound pretty sweet.

c if u can post up a vid so we can hear how loud/quiet it is once its installed.

[66yostagea]

Its easy. Need an allen key for bellmouth bolts and an extra jack to hold the cat back section up. I could not get one of the allen head bolts in. It needed a bit ground off the head. It took about three hours, with stops for liquid sustenence.

[Xmetal]

I managed to do mine with one car ramp - drove the car up on the front passenger side wheel, chocked up the rears and worked from there. Safer than using a jack with stands.

Bellmouth dumps are a snore to install, just make sure you've got plenty of arm stamina, a good ratchet set, grease, WD40 and good eyesight for lining everything up. When I was mating the dump to the cat I used bricks to take the weight of the cat-back section.

[zei20l]

yeah the extra jack is handy! a trolley jack is good, but if you dont have 2 of them, use the stock one, you can wind it by hand to get the height right to attach to the rest of the exhaust!

[66yostagea]

I managed to do mine with one car ramp - drove the car up on the front passenger side wheel, chocked up the rears and worked from there. Safer than using a jack with stands.

Bellmouth dumps are a snore to install, just make sure you've got plenty of arm stamina, a good ratchet set, grease, WD40 and good eyesight for lining everything up. When I was mating the dump to the cat I used bricks to take the weight of the cat-back section.

Did you get all the bolts in?

[DaveB]

Just did a split-dump install on my series 2. I found it easiest to unbolt the dump pipe flange at the cat' and remove the turbo and dump as one unit... but that was because I was changing the turbo at the same time It was then pretty easy to bolt the dump to the turbo out of the car, and carefully re-insert the turbo & dump assembly from the engine bay.

Cat ended up angled down ever so SLIGHTLY and wouldn't quite mate with the first flange on the cat-back exhaust (at least not without putting more force on the dump to keep it straight than I was comfortable with). So I had an exhaust place make up a mild 3" cat-back system with mandrel bends and magnaflow oval mufflers Very nice but very drony... loudest at 2k then it gets quieter???!

[chef_stagea]

i did mine yesterday..... made me a little angry by the end of it but it was ok... start by getting rid of the heat sheild and drowning the bolts in inox... while there soaking take the cat out/off from the dump... slowly crack the bolts on the turbo... i was told to be carful as there obviously guna be fairly heat f**ked from there hard life.... i had trouble getting the 2 middle bolts in... theres like a rectangle shape that forms the bell mouth... and the 2 middle ones didnt go in very far on mine.. all in all i didnt notice alot of difference from having the 3" decat back, to adding the dump but ahwell

[DaveB]

Great stuff... sounds like it was pretty straight-forward for you then? What type of dump did you install?

[Xmetal]

Did you get all the bolts in?

Yeah I got them all in, it's not difficult.