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the reason for the purchase of Santas little box it to take advantage of the haltechs capabilities and the first thing out of the box is this little puppy

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And today I finally fished installing it, I put the sensor under the car 35E4F973-243B-4BB7-8B24-BA82EEE946CD.jpg

(There is a bracket now and the wires covered)

And ran the wires into the car, to the passenger side, under the seat, into the I/0 box and then the can hub

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I still need to mount them properly but I may still have a bit of fiddling with them so will do it later

Next is the wide band oxygen sensor kit sat the control module in a similar a lot to the I/O box

0305118B-7B5C-423E-9626-F34C09CCA9E5.jpg And ran the wire through where the cat temp sensor use to run

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Haven't hooked it up yet as the new exhuast hasn't been fitted yet

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And basically under my carpet now looks like this mess

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The day finally came, we fitted the exhaust and what a mission that was, because I wanted the big center muffler fitted to it we ended up custom making the entire center section

We started with this eye sore and was part of the reason I wanted the exhuast changed as it never fit right to begin with and had a restrictor in the center muffler

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So we got that off and first fitted to new front pipes and welded the bung for the wide band, welded the flanges on the cat and fitted it

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And the reason for changing the center muffler

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Replaced with this magna flow muffler

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I didn't get any photos of the middle section it was hot and we wanted to get out of there

But here it from the back after being finished

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And back on the ground

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And here is the where the wiring runs for the oxygen sensor, it has brackets the hold it to the rail now but they aren't in the photo

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Over all it has a nice deep note, it still fairly loud without being obnoxious and despite not giving it a boot full due to not having the tune checked you can feel the turbos are more keen to wake up

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Oh I forgot to mention that while we were doing the exhuast i decided to check the health of the limited slip diff and well...... It doesn't do a dam thing, I was able to grab to 2 rear wheels and turn them in opposite directions without any resistance at all

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