I just bought a down pipe and...

I just bought myself a MAPerformace catted downpipe with a new turbo gasket. I only have about 8,000 miles on my car. Should I wait to put the new gasket on after I have driven 50k miles or just go ahead and slap it on now? I asked a few people and they said I shouldn't need a new gasket unil 50k or so miles but I went ahead and bought the thing anyway.

Might as well throw the new gasket on while youre at it.

be sure to spray some deep creep on those top bolts as well. some have broken a bolt getting the down pipe off.

kshawn said:

be sure to spray some deep creep on those top bolts as well. some have broken a bolt getting the down pipe off.

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+1

Even with PB blaster I still stripped a nut. It was the last nut holding the dp too lol. Autozone sells these special sockets for stripped bolts and I was able to get it off using that. I’d recommend soaking all the bolts with on blaster for 24 hours if you can.

Does anyone know if CNT FP/DP are good quality? The price it’s pretty much unbeatable tho, $379 for the combo. I was looking at prl, but there’s a diameter restriction since I’m running a 2.5” exhaust. Thanks!

kshawn said:

be sure to spray some deep creep on those top bolts as well. some have broken a bolt getting the down pipe off.

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Yup! I snapped a stud, luckily I replaced with a 27won turbo. Lol.

airickmatthews said:

Yup! I snapped a stud, luckily I replaced with a 27won turbo. Lol.

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that's one way to do it

gva2984 said:

Does anyone know if CNT FP/DP are good quality? The price it’s pretty much unbeatable tho, $379 for the combo. I was looking at prl, but there’s a diameter restriction since I’m running a 2.5” exhaust. Thanks!

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I'm running the cnt setup with no problems, it's not a full 3" like prl though, it tapers down from 3" to like 2.25"

Same here, I snapped my stud. I got a "special tool" to take it off but didn't work. Mechanic charge me $200 to take it off :S

R.Andre said:

Same here, I snapped my stud. I got a "special tool" to take it off but didn't work. Mechanic charge me $200 to take it off :S

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I guess I was lucky. I did not snap any of my studs. CEL popped up though. I am going to look into getting a defouler instead of disabling through Ktuner.