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Someone tell me Dp install is easy
- Thread starter Noodle1
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ArcsandSparks
Ready to race!
^^ This- remove the battery, battery tray, and intake. Worth the extra few minutes because you don't have to fight for space to get to the DP.
Uberryan
Banned
Exhaust mods are the easiest of easy. Hard to fuck up. PB blast the bolts, get a stool to reach if you're short, and decent torque wrenches. The only issue that can occur is if you strip the bolts off. Avoid that, and you're golden. Most of my install was spent on getting the car jacked up. After that, it's a breeze.
Speeddemon691
Go Kart Champion
its easy if you don't strip any bolts. I did mine with 8k miles and snapped a stud, boy what a PITA that was. that sucker was on there and did not budge, even with pb blaster from the day before. i was cursing from there on. has to run to the dealer to get a new stud and bolts, always use new nuts and or bolts, better safe than sorry. Always be ready for the worse, and if nothing happens at least you were ready.
Noodle1
Ready to race!
If I remove my battery and unplug it, dosent that reset my apr tune? Sorry for the dumb question
sterkrazzy
Autocross Champion
I don't think that happens, maybe rarely? If you have multiple programs it might change your program, to whatever program your tuner put on the list first. I have stage 2 93 oct first so I don't need to worry about that.
snobrdrdan
former GTI owner
A long extension & 16mm socket to get the top nuts off on the downpipe, from on top of the car.
Move the front portion of the intake out of the way & you can try squeezing in there with the battery tray still in there. BUT removing the battery & tray makes it A LOT easier
Then a ratcheting 16mm wrench for the other two, underneath the car
It really isn't that bad of an install
Move the front portion of the intake out of the way & you can try squeezing in there with the battery tray still in there. BUT removing the battery & tray makes it A LOT easier
Then a ratcheting 16mm wrench for the other two, underneath the car
It really isn't that bad of an install
sauceman101
Ready to race!
You won't lose your tune, it will set the tune as the first in your sequence of tunes upon hooking everything back up. That being said, I encourage everyone to wrench on their own vehicles, if you had as much difficulty doing the short shifter install which imo is the easiest thing to do on a vehicle aside from an intake swap or oil change, make sure you have everything you need before getting started, and pay better attention to where you place your hardware so you're not spending half of your working time looking for stuff! Otherwise exhausts are easy
