Afternoon everyone!
After some head scratching and a Bacon & Egg sandwich my CTR Martelius exhaust went on the 2.2 civ !
A few rusted bolts and alot of swearing and wiggling of mild steel piping and it fits pretty much perfectly
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To start with 3 out of 9 bolts were well and truly 'rusted on', plenty of duck oil and a now sore back and they came off !
There was an original worry that the first curve after the CAT was going to sit on the chassis (and obviously chatter and bang), some more swearing I decided to ignore it for now and just chucked the rest on...
The first hanger sat a little too far toward the R-H side so gave it a little persuasion back into a perfect place
Once the rest of the piping & backbox was on it tucked the front down a bit and twisted the cat to a better position so I was MUCH happier now it wasn't catching
All the bolt holes were perfect!
The tailpipe has a hanging bracket which was 'persuaded' into a good position so the tailpipe sits in the centre of the trim
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Tightened everything up and fired her up!
First thoughts (still on ramp about 6ft high, idle & revs no boost) it's not as loud as I'd expected! (which was good as i half expected a tractor sounding civ...)
Idle has a slightly deeper burble, not noisy!! just a HINT that it's not standard haha
First short drive (garage car park, no boost) setting off (1k - 1.5k rpm) same slightly deeper note and idle just sped up haha, hope im making sense
2k rpm just teasing the turbo and it starts to sound a bit meatier
I was happy nothing was blowing, time to make sure she wasn't over-boosting!
Full use of RPM in gears 1,2,3 & 4, VERY meaty, not TOO loud at all though!
*At this point I got a weird look of another civ owner coming to some lights haha*
Once you hit boost the sound becomes much more prominent, very deep toned.
Over speed bumps etc on the way home it didn't bang or chatter on anything so fitment is good!
Turbo seems SLIGHTLY louder, spool up time seems quick (was never slow though...) BONUS: NO OVER-BOOSTING!!!
Just comparing two short runs:
Peak PSI Before: 22.2
Peak PSI After: 22.2 !
I most certainly cannot complain at this
I'll have to take do a proper run & data log later on for more accurate results
Few pics below
Any questions ask away!
I'll try and do a video at some point too
EDIT: LINK TO VIDS
http://www.youtube.com/user/Eppo65?feature=watch
Sorry about the poor quality!
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After some head scratching and a Bacon & Egg sandwich my CTR Martelius exhaust went on the 2.2 civ !
A few rusted bolts and alot of swearing and wiggling of mild steel piping and it fits pretty much perfectly
-
To start with 3 out of 9 bolts were well and truly 'rusted on', plenty of duck oil and a now sore back and they came off !
There was an original worry that the first curve after the CAT was going to sit on the chassis (and obviously chatter and bang), some more swearing I decided to ignore it for now and just chucked the rest on...
The first hanger sat a little too far toward the R-H side so gave it a little persuasion back into a perfect place
Once the rest of the piping & backbox was on it tucked the front down a bit and twisted the cat to a better position so I was MUCH happier now it wasn't catching
All the bolt holes were perfect!
The tailpipe has a hanging bracket which was 'persuaded' into a good position so the tailpipe sits in the centre of the trim
-
Tightened everything up and fired her up!
First thoughts (still on ramp about 6ft high, idle & revs no boost) it's not as loud as I'd expected! (which was good as i half expected a tractor sounding civ...)
Idle has a slightly deeper burble, not noisy!! just a HINT that it's not standard haha
First short drive (garage car park, no boost) setting off (1k - 1.5k rpm) same slightly deeper note and idle just sped up haha, hope im making sense
2k rpm just teasing the turbo and it starts to sound a bit meatier
I was happy nothing was blowing, time to make sure she wasn't over-boosting!
Full use of RPM in gears 1,2,3 & 4, VERY meaty, not TOO loud at all though!
*At this point I got a weird look of another civ owner coming to some lights haha*
Once you hit boost the sound becomes much more prominent, very deep toned.
Over speed bumps etc on the way home it didn't bang or chatter on anything so fitment is good!
Turbo seems SLIGHTLY louder, spool up time seems quick (was never slow though...) BONUS: NO OVER-BOOSTING!!!
Just comparing two short runs:
Peak PSI Before: 22.2
Peak PSI After: 22.2 !
I most certainly cannot complain at this
I'll have to take do a proper run & data log later on for more accurate results
Few pics below
Any questions ask away!
I'll try and do a video at some point too
EDIT: LINK TO VIDS
http://www.youtube.com/user/Eppo65?feature=watch
Sorry about the poor quality!
.