FML - Down pipe issue

580 Views 8 Replies 6 Participants Last post by southpaw.steve, Feb 7, 2010

southpaw.steve

Discussion Starter · Feb 6, 2010

Well was all happy today making progress on my car and came across this:

This kinda killed my buzz! Every time I get somewhere something else goes wrong :-( How do u think this happened? Im not really sure what all the crap around the hole is (no pun intended lol.)
Does anyone think I can get that welded up? Or am I gonna have to buy a new one? Cheers

See less See more

Save

1 - 9 of 9 Posts

koh

· #2 · Feb 6, 2010

i would replace it rather than weld,the little bits around the hole look like they would have been where that hole is now,no idea how you could have got it hot enough to do that though,must have had a small pinhole in the metal

Save

southpaw.steve

Discussion Starter · #3 · Feb 6, 2010

Yea true, thanks for that, ill be taking it in to mechanic next so ill see what he says also. Think I might buy a screamer

Save

AndyP

· #4 · Feb 6, 2010

Looks loke someone had fitted another sensor there and removed it and the weld didn't hold or they didn't do it properly.

New one definately.

Don't go screamer unless you've got the external wastegate to fit it to.

Save

southpaw.steve

Discussion Starter · #5 · Feb 6, 2010

AndyP said:
Looks loke someone had fitted another sensor there and removed it and the weld didn't hold or they didn't do it properly.

New one definately.

Don't go screamer unless you've got the external wastegate to fit it to.

Im thinking of getting an external wastegate havent decided yet money is tight, but what I meant was replacing the dump pipe with one of these

See less See more

Save

Lucid

· #6 · Feb 6, 2010

Ive got a speare rb20/rb25 factory downpipe bro if you want to buy it off me cheap man... hit me up

Save

COOLDRFT

· #7 · Feb 6, 2010

AndyP said:
Looks loke someone had fitted another sensor there and removed it and the weld didn't hold or they didn't do it properly.

New one definately.

Don't go screamer unless you've got the external wastegate to fit it to.

Looks like that , abit too round to be caused by anything else.

Those screamer pipes can be hard to seal right, usually sound like a tractor on tick over.
You'd pick up a stock rb25det elbow for a few $$ ,will do the job :bigthumb:

Save

Boostjunkies

· #8 · Feb 6, 2010

I had this exact screamer pipe and it didn't seal correctly and the waste gate penny got stuck all the time, I removed it but two of the bolts snapped and I ended up getting another turbo,
I have a standard elbow down the garage you can have for free if you pay for postage bud, the std item is fine for 400 bhp at least, I only opted for a HKS item as I replace the turbo anyway, the screamers do sound like a blowing tractor if they are not sealed correctly.
matt

Save

southpaw.steve

Discussion Starter · #9 · Feb 7, 2010

Lucid said:
Ive got a speare rb20/rb25 factory downpipe bro if you want to buy it off me cheap man... hit me up

sweeeet will send u pm!

COOLDRFT said:
Looks like that , abit too round to be caused by anything else.

Those screamer pipes can be hard to seal right, usually sound like a tractor on tick over.
You'd pick up a stock rb25det elbow for a few $$ ,will do the job :bigthumb:

Thanks for the advice!

Matt(Buffy) said:
I had this exact screamer pipe and it didn't seal correctly and the waste gate penny got stuck all the time, I removed it but two of the bolts snapped and I ended up getting another turbo,
I have a standard elbow down the garage you can have for free if you pay for postage bud, the std item is fine for 400 bhp at least, I only opted for a HKS item as I replace the turbo anyway, the screamers do sound like a blowing tractor if they are not sealed correctly.
matt

Thanks mate but will need it by Tuesday dont think that will be possible!

Save

1 - 9 of 9 Posts

This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.

Top Contributors this Month