Well, I've finally started piecing together my exhaust after making sure the engine was getting good cool, clean air.
I had been looking around for a 3" dp and finally decided to buy the 3" dp from DM, ordered it around the 30th of August and got it the 6th of September. The package arrived with both ends of the box torn due to UPS throwing it around, the box was also partially collapsed in the middle. So I opened the package to find that the DP was nicely wrapped in bubble tape along with new bolts and gaskets for both mating surfaces.
After removing the nuts from the turbo elbow they came off very easily, thank god for anti-seize, I had to cut my exhaust into two sections. The previous owner decided to weld a borla catback DIRECTLY to the stock downpipe cat, after cutting it the pieces easily came out.
Installing the new downpipe was just as easy as removing the old one. Put on a good amount of anti-seize and torqued the nuts back to spec then fired her up.
:aigo:OH MY GOD IT'S LOUD. When I first started the car everything inside was rattling due to the harmonics from being at cold start rpm. I took her for a test drive after I let her warm up and there's no more hiding that I'm turbo, you can hear it spool at all rpms and any throttle input. Once you get on the gas, you can REALLY hear the turbo, it sounds like I have a DDP installed. I drove about a mile away and my friend at my house could still hear me so I will be trying to buy the DM 3" catback ASAP to try and quiet it down. On my return trip I really got into it to find that first gear is now almost useless and the cars rear end skates around in 2nd, also I hit fuel cut when I left the car floored in 3rd. So just from installing DM IC kit, apexi air filter adapter, ct2657 and the DM 3" dp, I hit fuel cut with NO boost controller hooked up OR shims on the wastegate.
Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this downpipe, the welds are not the greatest but better than some of the others I have seen. I had zero fitment issues and the only tiny compliant I have is that the downpipe does rattle against the transmission.
Will be posting pics within a day or two.
I had been looking around for a 3" dp and finally decided to buy the 3" dp from DM, ordered it around the 30th of August and got it the 6th of September. The package arrived with both ends of the box torn due to UPS throwing it around, the box was also partially collapsed in the middle. So I opened the package to find that the DP was nicely wrapped in bubble tape along with new bolts and gaskets for both mating surfaces.
After removing the nuts from the turbo elbow they came off very easily, thank god for anti-seize, I had to cut my exhaust into two sections. The previous owner decided to weld a borla catback DIRECTLY to the stock downpipe cat, after cutting it the pieces easily came out.
Installing the new downpipe was just as easy as removing the old one. Put on a good amount of anti-seize and torqued the nuts back to spec then fired her up.
:aigo:OH MY GOD IT'S LOUD. When I first started the car everything inside was rattling due to the harmonics from being at cold start rpm. I took her for a test drive after I let her warm up and there's no more hiding that I'm turbo, you can hear it spool at all rpms and any throttle input. Once you get on the gas, you can REALLY hear the turbo, it sounds like I have a DDP installed. I drove about a mile away and my friend at my house could still hear me so I will be trying to buy the DM 3" catback ASAP to try and quiet it down. On my return trip I really got into it to find that first gear is now almost useless and the cars rear end skates around in 2nd, also I hit fuel cut when I left the car floored in 3rd. So just from installing DM IC kit, apexi air filter adapter, ct2657 and the DM 3" dp, I hit fuel cut with NO boost controller hooked up OR shims on the wastegate.
Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this downpipe, the welds are not the greatest but better than some of the others I have seen. I had zero fitment issues and the only tiny compliant I have is that the downpipe does rattle against the transmission.
Will be posting pics within a day or two.
