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Old 06-23-2016, 05:44 AM   #1
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i have TopSpeed cat delete pipes
While they are not yet installed it would be a good time to wrap them or use something like Heatshield armor to keep the extra heat from the mid pipes away from your inner CV Boots. If not, especially on a track day, you will put a lot of heat into the inner boots which may overheat the grease and cause it to sling out and also cause premature failure of the boot. The stock secondary cats have shielding which is lost when you take the cat out. I had some grease coming out of my driver side axle vent hole, pulled the axles and added some more grease, added some shielding, and the problem resolved, no more slinging grease.

At first I tried to install header wrap with the pipes installed on the car, and it was terrible. So I gave up on that, and used heatshield armor (I actually have enough left over to do 3-4 more cars). That was pretty easy to do in place. You can see it in this picture when I had the wheel off:





If you decide to wrap, while the pipes are off the car is the time to do it... I saw some videos where they soaked the wrap in warm water before starting which seemed to make it look like it would be easier...

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Old 06-23-2016, 05:58 AM   #2
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great tip Steve! thanks a lot i will definitely do that.

i will be reaching out to you regarding the suspension later, i plan on putting the new engine in and testing it for a while before i throw more money at it so i will just fix my busted shock with some a used front pair from Woody and run it like that until i feel comfortable with the replacement engine.
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