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Offline ...joe

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driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« on: 06 October 2005, 13:45 »
am i right in saying a 1600 driver would need an upgrade to an 8 valve downpipe to get a mk2 gti rear box to fit?

the rear box has a pretty narrow intake so looks like it was made to fit a standard system. not sure how small the bore is on a driver compared to a 8v gti.

any info please as i'm trying to shift a rear box and don't want to stitch the young lad up!
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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #1 on: 06 October 2005, 13:52 »
Hmm, I just baught an 8V gti system to try and fit to my 1.6, ive gotta phone Designa dubs  to ask them about fitting it (as its down at there workshop right now), ill ask em what work needs doing and let you know

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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #2 on: 06 October 2005, 13:57 »
i fit when i did it, :)

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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #3 on: 06 October 2005, 14:01 »
haribo, did you just use a rear box? if so thats cool!
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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #4 on: 06 October 2005, 14:44 »
just spoken to Designa Dubs, Very nice chaps. Said they will be able to fit a GTI exhaust system to my 1.6 drver, Will just need to fabricate a reducer for me, Shouldnt cost more than £40+ VAT (hours labour)

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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #5 on: 07 October 2005, 09:52 »
You have 2 choices:
1) fit a 1.8 Driver/GL downpipe to the standard manifold and mate the GTI system to that
2) fit a complete 1.8 GTI system including the manifold & downpipe

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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #6 on: 07 October 2005, 12:29 »
haribo, did you just use a rear box? if so thats cool!

indeed, it fecking loud mind, its the deepest rumble ive ever had.

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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #7 on: 07 October 2005, 12:34 »
^^ Really? mines pritty quiet, Thats why im ditching it for a full 8V GTI SS system, I want somthing a little louder!

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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #8 on: 07 October 2005, 12:36 »
ive put gti backboxes on 3 8v golfs so far(2 1600`s and a 1300) on the 1300 we put the whole system onand it all fit perfect, on the 1600`s just the backbox, but we had to saw the old box off cause it they didnt have that extra box behind the backbos, but the pipes all fit nicely,only problem ive had was putting my Scorpion DTM on, as it didnt have rear hangers and it just had a small pipe coming out the back that was slightly too big so we had to saw old box off leaving as much pipe on as we could then make extra slices along the new pipe and clamp the fecker as tight  as we could, took ages to get it right, exhausts piss me off

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Re: driver to gti exhaust?!?!?!
« Reply #9 on: 07 October 2005, 12:38 »
^^ Really? mines pritty quiet, Thats why im ditching it for a full 8V GTI SS system, I want somthing a little louder!

now you mention it, it was the 1300 that was loud,louder the scorpion on my 1.6 at the moment, the others were just a soft rumble.