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Originally Posted by CrisZenithBlue
i have TopSpeed cat delete pipes
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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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