{"id":4415,"date":"2013-02-17T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T06:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2013-02-17T23:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T07:00:47","slug":"3-5-downpipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2013\/02\/3-5-downpipe\/","title":{"rendered":"3.5″ Downpipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Included with my turbo kit was this 3.5″ stainless downpipe.<\/p>\n

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In an effort to reduce under-hood temperatures, I wanted to wrap the downpipe. I bought a roll of DEI Titanium exhaust wrap and locking ties. I’m not sure why I insisted on buying these locking ties, because I already knew from prior experience that they sucked… <\/p>\n

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The rolls only come in 15′ lengths. In combination with the 3.5″ tubing and a ~1\/4″ wrapping overlap – I ran out of material roughly midway through and had to pick up a second roll. <\/p>\n

Here is the end product.<\/p>\n

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Later when I tried installing the downpipe, it didn’t fit! I did a brief test fit in the beginning before wrapping, but that proved to be inconclusive. Once the v-band was hooked on, the other flange of the downpipe was pointing upwards at too much of an angle. <\/p>\n

It seems like every part\/component of this engine project ends up being a mini-project of its own. I unwrapped the downpipe and brought it over to FFTEC. In a very short time span, I’ve become one of their regular customers. The flange on the downpipe had to be dropped 1-3\/4″ while still maintaing the same orientation and distance. The fabrication guru there was able to do all of this by simply making a measured cut and flipping around the tail section of the pipe. He left it tacked on so I could go back home to test fit before fully welding. <\/p>\n

With the modification complete and the downpipe now fitting correctly, I rewrapped it again but used worm-gear clamps instead of the locking ties, which allowed me to get a much tighter wrap this time around. <\/p>\n

Installed, plus a new Bosch O2 sensor.<\/p>\n

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Included with my turbo kit was this 3.5″ stainless downpipe. In an effort to reduce under-hood temperatures, I wanted to wrap the downpipe. I bought a roll of DEI Titanium exhaust wrap and locking ties. I’m not sure why I insisted on buying these locking ties, because I already knew from prior experience that they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4415"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4415\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}