Hi All
I have got my baby home again after having some exhaust work and ECU reprograming done.
As I mentioned earlier, there are issues with side pipes her in SA.
After a LOT of discussion with engineer, exhaust man (Ashley) & the road traffic board here in SA, I .. (we) decided to proceed in the following way..
Run the exhaust through the header pipes exiting the body and fit CAT as close as possible to the engine.
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Exit the side pipe just before the end and tuck back under the car.
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At this point it starts getting difficult.
Turn the pipe 90 deg toward the rear of the car
we had to cut a small piece of the sill support structure and put a stap under it(Kirkham do this when running under car exhaust) to get the pipe high enough to achieve good ground clearance
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Then we had to thread the pipe between the drive shaft and lower A arm
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not a lot of clearance but it works
Ashley (Classic performance dyno centrte) had decided to run with 2.5' pipe,
a smaller pipe would have been a lot easier.
Then of course we run in to the back of the fuel tank it runs from wheel arc to wheel arch, no room at all.
I removed the tank and marked it up for modification
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After
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I lost about 30 liters of capacity out of (I think it was) 115 liter tank
Unfortunately the fuel sender unit has now ended up in the boot
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Hope fully I can address this a bit later on
Then the easy bit stick two mufflers in the void created, heat shield on the side of the fuel tank
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(sorry for the sun glare)
To address the heat issues on the exterior, we wrapped the header pipes, and a solid heat shield yet to be painted. (I personally do not like the look of perforated shield)
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A bit big and clumsy looking but not too bad, if it allows me to drive on the road I will put up with it!
Did the Db test and got a 83Db reading (Prius mode) emissions are well below the limits as well.
My sparky has sorted all the dash gremlins and everything works!!
Still a few hold ups with some things from suppliers.
Hope you all enjoyed!
Cheers
Kent