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tt race dp question: can I fit a cat with it?



You're both cheap   ;-)

-RGK-

At 11:17 PM 1/13/03 -0800, Rabbit16v wrote:
>Granted but you must realize and agree that if you didn't have to modify you
>downpipe to fit your toilet bowl exhaust manifold it would of bolted up
>rather easily.  I think even the newest person to working on their car could
>take 6 nuts off, install the pipe, and put the nuts (with washers) back on.
>After taking your car in, paying for labor, paying for the supplies to
>include piping, clamps, gaskets, environmental fees, shop fees, tax, etc you
>could buy a cat back 2 1/4"  pipe for about $100 or so from TT.  If money is
>an issue than you figure out how to get around it!  I collected a few
>odds-n-ends (which you have a yard full of, Brian), rented a spot at the
>Spring Meet (for selling the parts), made enough to buy my DP, mid pipe, TT
>motronic chip, a couple Bentleys, and a couple TT t-shirts.  On the way home
>I stopped at Good Guys and got a new VCR and a new portable CD player.  I
>still had about $400 left over and I didn't have a dime in the stuff that I
>took with me to sell, just stuff I traded, swapped, or saved for a later
>date (one example, traded a 16v head to someone in Australia for a upper and
>lower 16v 50mm powder coated Golf intake and Euro fuel injection--that stuff
>sold well!!!!).  I have so many swapping and trading stories I could write a
>book.  And you all call Ron cheap!!!
>
>Dave
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Decker" <boisfort@myhome.net>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:59 PM
>Subject: Re: tt race dp question: can I fit a cat with it?
>
>
> > Hi Dave ;
> >     You must own stock in TT and Autotech. I have never paid as much at my
> > local muffler shop for a 2 to 2.5 inch system as the prices listed by TT
>or
> > Autotech and all I have to do is drive in wait about 30 minutes and drive
> > out with my new muffler system. If something isn't right like a rattle ETC
>I
> > just drive back and they fix it. Exhaust work at home I have found to be
> > messy and knuckle busting. I do have a TT long non cat down pipe but you
>can
> > rest assured that my muffler man welded a pipe to it. I have a two and a
> > half  inch system with a 14 inch turbo muffler under my 79 Scirocco.
> > Brian Decker
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rabbit16v" <Rabbit16v@attbi.com>
> > To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: tt race dp question: can I fit a cat with it?
> >
> >
> > > Then what you need to do is either get a "test" pipe made for the cat
>area
> > > and take that thing out.
> > >
> > > As far as getting a $2500 fine, that is correct but you should get a
>$2500
> > > fine for letting someone else mess with your exhaust!!
> > >
> > > Actually, what I mean by that is that you probably paid some muffler
>shop
> > > enough in labor and crap that you could of bought the cat back exhaust
> > from
> > > TT or Autotech or someone and did the bolt-in job yourself.
> > >
> > > I sure hope he didn't work his "cut and weld magic" on your TT race DP!!
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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