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one of the mounts had to be modified - I don't have the tools or skillz to do it myself. I hate giving my car to a workshop...

You're not alone. A lot of the work requires proper tools which just cost too much. Unless you're doing it all the time, I couldnt justify buying them.

Go the front pipe and cat on today and only took 1hours to get the job done today but if I were to do it myself it would have cost 3x or 4x as much and probably a day's work. Shit thing is, the bloody Catco cat got the protection plate welded on the wrong side, so now the side thats facing the floor doesnt have anything.

Thanks Tas for fixing the front pipe and cat up for me today.

Nah mine's on top too but dont know if thats supposed to be the case. I thought thats for protection of the cat or something (which means it should be facing down)... -.-; Couldnt be bothered. The old cat has both side shielded.

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the heatshield? yours ended up at the bottom?

Mine is correct (heatshield at the top)... also a catco

Nah mine's on top too but dont know if thats supposed to be the case. I thought thats for protection of the cat or something (which means it should be facing down)... -.-; Couldnt be bothered. The old cat has both side shielded.

from a total n00bs view i would say the heatshield should be facing the top (the car)

but i brandon i'd go see someone in the know who has experience, im sure someone here can recommend a joint, and get it checked out

If thats a heat shield and but for protection of the cat then yes I think it should be up. But the funny thing is the old 1 has it on both side. In any case, doesnt really matter. I'm happy to have everything up without any big dramas.

but i brandon i'd go see someone in the know who has experience, im sure someone here can recommend a joint, and get it checked out

^^ and ask questions

you guys are wankers :cool:

catco are preweilded cats so when we alligned it for brandon the cat senor was on the opposite side.

so in order to get everything working had to flip the cat so it all neatly bolts up

thats why brandon i told you from the very beginning to let me get you a magna flow hi flow cat as the flanges can be weilded to suit

so thristian before u start to slander me think carefully :D

Top.

If its serving as a heat shield then yes its better to be on top (if there's only 1 side) but it'll be better to have them on both wouldnt it? But when I look at other stainless steel ones doesnt seem like they've got any (on the photos).

Edited by Brandon

well in that case it is right. So Tas, the only reason you had to:

had to flip the cat so it all neatly bolts up

was because it was upside down in the first place :cool:. The only thing you would have acheived by buying a not pre-welded cat would be having to do more work welding the flanges on.

There is no need to have a shield on the bottom, there is no sheild protecting the rest of the exhaust underneath so why would the cat need one?

There IS (on my car anyway) a heatshield ABOVE the entire exhuast protecting the floorpan from heating up. The cat gets an extra one probably because it is a bigger source of heat than the rest of the exhaust

to protect from speed bumps and what not from scratching and rupturing the actual ceramic insides?

or to protect anyone who works on the car when the cat is hot so it has a heat/bash plate on it

and simply no..

the cat senor wielded hole was on the different side matey..

ive got a better and cheaper idea. get a straight thru pipe !! no one will ever know, cats suck !!

how many times must i say it?:)

are you boys coming up this thursday?

so I was helping a mate drop a gearbox yesterday so he can put his new lightweight flywheel on. Got the gearbox off OK, but got to the flywheel bolts and his snap-on battery rattle gun wouldnt even budge them. After ruining one socket and then trying another one, we drove all the way back to my place (he lives miles fking northside) to pick up the ute and my compressor. It also couldn't undo the bolts! Eventually we got 5 of them off, but 1 was still stuck. So now he has no car to get to work today, lol.

I have pulled many a flywheel off before, none have been as much of a c*nt as this one.

On the bright side it meant I didn't have to help him get the gearbox back on :)

so I was helping a mate drop a gearbox yesterday so he can put his new lightweight flywheel on. Got the gearbox off OK, but got to the flywheel bolts and his snap-on battery rattle gun wouldnt even budge them. After ruining one socket and then trying another one, we drove all the way back to my place (he lives miles fking northside) to pick up the ute and my compressor. It also couldn't undo the bolts! Eventually we got 5 of them off, but 1 was still stuck. So now he has no car to get to work today, lol.

I have pulled many a flywheel off before, none have been as much of a c*nt as this one.

On the bright side it meant I didn't have to help him get the gearbox back on :)

did ya try heating the bolts and just using a normal breaker bar?

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