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If you’ve installed a 42DD down pipe on your MK6 R, I could use your help.
I installed the 42DD downpipe on my R this past weekend. I have a few odd rattles that I would like to not have. At first I thought I didn’t tighten down the bolts that hold the center u-joint in place enough because there was a bumping noise right under the driver’s seat. I put the car on a lift the other day and the center brace is tight, but the cat looks a little close to the heat shield that covers the center brace. I’m now thinking I have the third pipe installed wrong and it’s pushing my exhaust too close to the heat shield and I’m getting a little bumping against the heat shield.
As you know the pipe comes in 3 pieces.
The front piece is a no brainer it can only connect to the turbo one way. The second one’s easy too, the o2 bung is behind the cat and on the passenger side where the sensor wire is located.
Draft Designs didn’t index the third pipe, so it could be installed in 6 possible positions 5 of them being wrong. I have a resonator in my third pipe. I looked at Draft Designs web site and it looks like the short section goes forward and the longer section goes rearward. That cuts me down to 3 choices or a 33% chance of getting it right. There’s a slight curve in the longer section, now here’s where I need the help. The OEM pipe has a curve on the top of the pipe, I think I installed it with the curve towards the driver’s side, and I think it’s supposed installed with the curve towards the passenger side.
Thanks in advance
I installed the 42DD downpipe on my R this past weekend. I have a few odd rattles that I would like to not have. At first I thought I didn’t tighten down the bolts that hold the center u-joint in place enough because there was a bumping noise right under the driver’s seat. I put the car on a lift the other day and the center brace is tight, but the cat looks a little close to the heat shield that covers the center brace. I’m now thinking I have the third pipe installed wrong and it’s pushing my exhaust too close to the heat shield and I’m getting a little bumping against the heat shield.
As you know the pipe comes in 3 pieces.
The front piece is a no brainer it can only connect to the turbo one way. The second one’s easy too, the o2 bung is behind the cat and on the passenger side where the sensor wire is located.
Draft Designs didn’t index the third pipe, so it could be installed in 6 possible positions 5 of them being wrong. I have a resonator in my third pipe. I looked at Draft Designs web site and it looks like the short section goes forward and the longer section goes rearward. That cuts me down to 3 choices or a 33% chance of getting it right. There’s a slight curve in the longer section, now here’s where I need the help. The OEM pipe has a curve on the top of the pipe, I think I installed it with the curve towards the driver’s side, and I think it’s supposed installed with the curve towards the passenger side.
Thanks in advance