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Title: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: Banham on January 08, 2013, 09:35:34 pm
Thinking about getting a remap in a few months and was thinking is there anything i can do to my Blueflame Cat-Back non res to make a few more BHP and move free flowing. I no i should of gone for a TBE but couldnt afford it at the time, and find them a little to loud for daily driving.

Would a downpipe/sport cat help?
Also would it give a more of a 'burble' or 'pop'


Any feedback would be appreciated :happy2:
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: MC71 on January 08, 2013, 10:10:57 pm
Have you removed the precat from your down pipe, that would help.  :happy2:
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: GTI-Ross on January 08, 2013, 10:11:06 pm
Thinking about getting a remap in a few months and was thinking is there anything i can do to my Blueflame Cat-Back non res to make a few more BHP and move free flowing. I no i should of gone for a TBE but couldnt afford it at the time, and find them a little to loud for daily driving.

Would a downpipe/sport cat help?
Also would it give a more of a 'burble' or 'pop'


Any feedback would be appreciated :happy2:

An easy quick mod it to remove the downpipe and knock out the Pre-Cat, search on here for it. Easy as hell to do and that free up 3-8 BHP and sounds a bit deeper, also turbo spools up quicker  :laugh:
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: Banham on January 08, 2013, 10:35:22 pm
I havent as of yet. It seems a simple mod for a garage to do and seems everyone has has good benefits to doing it. But would i get the same gains as to getting a downpipe with sports cat? if i were to go to stage two would this still be ok with the pre car removed?
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: GTI-Ross on January 09, 2013, 12:21:35 am
well if you are going to stage 2 then i would recommend getting TBE and sports cat anyway mate :happy2:
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: Banham on January 09, 2013, 11:44:51 am
Just cant afford it all atm with insurance and mot next month. Would it be worth just getting the sports cat for now and then when i can afford it getting the tbe. Would there be any gains to getting it before the full tbe
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: RENNTAG on January 09, 2013, 11:49:09 am
If you just get a downpipe and sports cat this shoud bolt on to your current cat back exhaust an then you will have a TBE.

Will need a donpipe and sports cat to go to stage 2.
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: Banham on January 09, 2013, 11:52:48 am
If you just get a downpipe and sports cat this shoud bolt on to your current cat back exhaust an then you will have a TBE.

Will need a donpipe and sports cat to go to stage 2.

Make it sound so simple now.  So if i add a downpipe and sports cat it becomes a tbe. I thought you had to change a few other bits. Can tell i dont no exhausts very well  :ashamed:

I am hoping the go to stage 2 eventually :happy2:
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: john87 on January 09, 2013, 12:21:57 pm
If you just get a downpipe and sports cat this shoud bolt on to your current cat back exhaust an then you will have a TBE.

Will need a donpipe and sports cat to go to stage 2.

Make it sound so simple now.  So if i add a downpipe and sports cat it becomes a tbe. I thought you had to change a few other bits. Can tell i dont no exhausts very well  :ashamed:

I am hoping the go to stage 2 eventually :happy2:

This is exactly what I did with my exhaust...

had a milltek car back fitted, then a few months later went for the pre-cat delete..however this didn't go well so ended up getting custom made downpipe plus 200 cell sports cat added = TBE  :happy2:
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: Banham on January 09, 2013, 12:35:26 pm
How did yours sounds from going from cat back to adding the downpipe and 200cell sports cat?

Does it matter if i dont get a blueflame sports cat? Assuming the pipe will be the same size.
Title: Re: Adding to a Cat-Back Exhaust
Post by: GTI-Ross on January 09, 2013, 02:43:17 pm
If you just get a downpipe and sports cat this shoud bolt on to your current cat back exhaust an then you will have a TBE.

Will need a donpipe and sports cat to go to stage 2.

Make it sound so simple now.  So if i add a downpipe and sports cat it becomes a tbe. I thought you had to change a few other bits. Can tell i dont no exhausts very well  :ashamed:

I am hoping the go to stage 2 eventually :happy2:

This is exactly what I did with my exhaust...

had a milltek car back fitted, then a few months later went for the pre-cat delete..however this didn't go well so ended up getting custom made downpipe plus 200 cell sports cat added = TBE  :happy2:

Why what went wrong with the Pr-cal Removal? pretty straight forward stuff  :signLOL: