New Custom CAT back

**Dan850T5** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 09:19

Hey all,

Here are pics as promised in my other "help" thread from yesterday when i had my cat back s/s fitted.

Big thanks to LTC exhausts in west mids for the cracking job and price, highly recommend http://www.ltctyres.co.uk/

Anyway pics.

Here she is on the ramp before the works start:

He cut the old system out, leaving a small section of pipe out the cat and clamped the new pipe around:

This is the join in the pipe further to the rear of the car:

He made some new brackets to support where the centre box used to be:

Resulting in this overall:

The size of the rear box (tiny!):

Trial fitting different pipes (this is where my mate came in handy haha):

Wanted something that filled the recess:

And the end result:

The pipe may be a bit OTT but i think it suits the car.

I will be doing some drive-by vids and stuff soon so will get them up asap, but for £180 i really can't grumble!

Cheers all

Dan

**Alan M** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 10:25

Did the pipework get bent on site by the company? What size did they say that they can bend pipe up to if they did (if you asked)?

**tandino** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 10:43

That looks like a bit of a bargain,
How loud is it at motorway speeds?
Think i would have gone for a slightly larger silencer and i liked the oval tailpipe.
Did they say anything about cutting out and reflanging the cat so that you could run a decat pipe?.
Think that is the route i want to go down as i want it to be removable and to be able to refit come MOT time.
Obviously depending on price i might just end up buying a 3" downpipe instead...

**Dan850T5** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 11:07

Alan, Pipework is all bent on site, took him about 3 and a half hours to do the whole job. As for the size of which they bend too im not sure, give them a call they are a very friendly bunch.

Tandino, it does drone a bit on motorway, but personally that doesn't bother me as im rarely on motorway for long distance, but i imagine it would wear thin.

He did ask if i wanted to de-cat, but i didn't, so as for the options regarding that im not sure pal sorry

**Alan M** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 12:16

This company is fairly local to me so I will give them a call Monday to find out if they can bend 3" sections that I can weld myself. I'm happy you enjoy the system you bought.

**Dan850T5** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 12:42

Cheers Alan,

They had a lot of varying sizes of pipe in the rack, some massive stuff so no doubt they would be able too.

**AndysR** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 15:34

Nice one looks smart , quality of the work looks good too!

Looking forward to the video's

**Saaamon** · Sunday 1st March 2009, 18:07

Looks good.

**Dan850T5** · Thursday 5th March 2009, 19:42

Right,

got a vid as promised, got some more to upload too but i'll leave you with this one first:

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...t=100_5062.flv

I though i'd picked a quiet road but er the factory was noisier than i though haha, enjoy