As promised I said I would give a review on the Scotts Rods 3 " sports exhaust.
I spoke to Scott and asked him about the 100 cell Catalytic converter. The 200 is designed for Diesels but the 100 would provide less restriction and better flow although it is primarily intended for petrol engines. I just want it to look legal
So I ordered the system and asked for a 1/8 npt socket for the EGT probe.
The complete system arrived about 2 days after placing the order, cant beat that. All of the required nuts bolts and gaskets were there including a sticker and a Cap
.
Thw quality of the pipe work and fabrication was very good with all of the flanges nicely cut out by CNC Plasma, the welds were good as well and they had no dagsand minimal splatter. A few of the bends had slight scoring where the bending machine had clamped onto the pipe but nothing to really be concerned with. I then proceeded to remove the old exhaust which I reckon is about 20kgs heavier than the Scotts Rods one. I bolted up the dump pipe first as this would be the only one to give me any grief if any. The nut closest to the manifold is a real bitch to get at,thank god for a flexible knuckle bit in the trusty sidchrome socket set.
I got all the studs / nuts on the the back of the turbo but left them loose. You have to use the existing hanger rubbers etc which slipped off easily with some WD40 and a large flatblade screw driver. I then fitted the rest of the exhaust up which was really easy and straight forward considering. once everything was connected I tightened the lot up to FT
Lastly I fitted up the EGT probe which sits about 2 inchws behind the turbo outlet.
I started up the MN and noticed straight away that I could hear a better Rumble from the exhaust, the turbo whine was also more evident. At idle the noise level was on par with standard. so far so good.
I drove it to work where we have some decent hills, and this exhaust with the chipit chip and unifilter now hauls arse
the torque is unreal and it easily climbed one of the hills in top that I had always had to go back to 4th previously. The growl is nice not to noisy and easily out pulls my mates D40.
I have to say at the moment I am impressed especially considering the relatively low purchase cost. Time will tell how the fuel economy will go , not good at the moment because im flogging it everywhere
Ollie
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/120839989887 ... 1497.l2649