Gti mani and cat on the xsi

[Skank_army]

Dear god, what a pain in the arse. Massive, massive thanks to samass for all his help and time (circa 12 hours!!) Dude, I owe you big time. Most of the pain was caused getting the original system out, the only way to do it is to separate the cat from the manifold, unfortunately the 10mm retaining nuts had rusted to oblivion, but held on to the bitter end despite some serious brute force from Sam and I. The only way to get the Gti mani in is to drop the sub frame and steering rack. Now its all in and fitted nicely, I'm going to have to get hold of various hoses and heatshields to make sure nothing gets burnt. Ideally, heatwrapping the mani would have been the way forward, I couldn't get hold of any heat wrap in time though anyway, it now sounds more epic and it feels like its breathing a lot better, picks up a little quicker, and has a little more grunt worth the smashed knuckles, punching myself in the face getting the lambda sensor out, and the massive burn on my hand lol. If anyone has any questions, or wants a hand doing it at some point, now I know how its done, give us a shout

Ta
Sam