Going to philj next week for new exhaust

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Going to philj next week for new exhaust; Cat being removed
Topic Started: Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:58 pm (224 Views)
vindaloo	Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:58 pm Post #1
Member Posts: 91 Group: Members Member #4,073 Joined: April 19, 2009	Looking forward to going to Phil's next Thursday for a new stainless exhaust. It's a 440mile round trip for me so I hope it's worth it!!!!! Going for the discrete look similar to that he fitted to Andy's car recently. Although my car has a CAT it can be removed as it's pre- Aug 1992. Phil is replacing the CAT with a small expansion box so effectively I'll have a 3 box system which I'm hoping will be as quiet (or nearly) as a stock system. As the lambda is before the CAT everything should work fine. I spoke to my mate who runs an MOT garage and he said it would get through a non-CAT MOT without any problems. He advised me to ditch the CAT as he said that early CAT's weren't particularly good and it would be no great loss & it's one less thing to cause a future problem. Anyone else ditched it?



aemt	Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:05 pm Post #2
Member Posts: 2,899 Group: Members Member #3,171 Joined: September 1, 2008	Well worth the trip.



jeremy	Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:06 pm Post #3
Member Posts: 6,561 Group: Members Member #2,018 Joined: December 9, 2007	Should make your car a little more responsive too . You will notice the difference . Jeremy



vindaloo	Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:45 pm Post #4
Member Posts: 91 Group: Members Member #4,073 Joined: April 19, 2009	aemt Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:05 pm Well worth the trip. Yours looks really good, I'm sure mine will be too



vindaloo	Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:46 pm Post #5
Member Posts: 91 Group: Members Member #4,073 Joined: April 19, 2009	jeremy Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:06 pm Should make your car a little more responsive too . You will notice the difference . Jeremy That's encouraging



Rich27	Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:55 pm Post #6
If it has tits or an engine it will be trouble Posts: 13,245 Group: Members Member #348 Joined: June 15, 2006	Hope its good, I`m considering one.



rhysmangatmotorsport	Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:57 pm Post #7
Mangatmotorsport Posts: 1,768 Group: Members Member #2,941 Joined: July 9, 2008	Where is phil j based chaps?? Robbie



balamb37	Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:59 pm Post #8
Member Posts: 562 Group: Members Member #3,881 Joined: February 25, 2009	I got a SS exhaust from the cat back, about two years ago and I've just been back to the place to organise taking the cat out because it's beginning to rattle excessively and replacing with a two inch diameter SS pipe to the front, so in the near furure mine will also be minus cat and complete SS from the down pipes back. I was told it doesn't make any difference to the sound level, but increases the HP by about 5. so it remains to be seen. Edited by balamb37, Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:04 pm.



vindaloo	Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:08 am Post #9
Member Posts: 91 Group: Members Member #4,073 Joined: April 19, 2009	rhysmangatmotorsport Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:57 pm Where is phil j based chaps?? Robbie Redhill, Surrey



vindaloo	Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:10 am Post #10
Member Posts: 91 Group: Members Member #4,073 Joined: April 19, 2009	balamb37 Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:59 pm I got a SS exhaust from the cat back, about two years ago and I've just been back to the place to organise taking the cat out because it's beginning to rattle excessively and replacing with a two inch diameter SS pipe to the front, so in the near furure mine will also be minus cat and complete SS from the down pipes back. I was told it doesn't make any difference to the sound level, but increases the HP by about 5. so it remains to be seen. Removing the CAT will make the car slightly noisier as they do suppress some noise; consider replacing it with a small expansion box & don't forget to keep the lambda.



aemt	Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:28 am Post #11
Member Posts: 2,899 Group: Members Member #3,171 Joined: September 1, 2008	Just a note of warning. Our Satnav (Navman) took us to a village the other side of Redhill using Phil's postcode. His garage is in REdhill so if you are told to go past check.



balamb37	Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:28 am Post #12
Member Posts: 562 Group: Members Member #3,881 Joined: February 25, 2009	Yeh Vindaloo I know about the Lamda if you get rid of that the engine management goes into Emergency mode and that ain't good, for performance or consumption. although you can get home on it.



whatleytom	Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:43 pm Post #13
Member Posts: 63 Group: Members Member #4,454 Joined: July 28, 2009	Hi there philj. The mid silence on my 2.6 190e has broken, and I need a new one. I have a standard back box, and a cat. I was wondering if you could maybe do pipes from the cat straight to the back box? Would it be way too loud do you think? Or if thats a bad idea, would it be possible to make a stainless replacement? Thanks very much. Thomas.



Threepoint	Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:06 pm Post #14
Newbie Posts: 48 Group: Members Member #4,276 Joined: June 13, 2009	Hi Philj Do you do manifolds for the 4 pot 2.0ltrs?Mine is a `91 on a j plate? Many thanks Martin



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