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Spank

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22nd Feb, 2006 at 06:14:29pm

New to turbos. Completely green.

Why does the turbo need that flexible elbow joint on the exhaust downpipe? Can I simply have a local exhaust shop make for me an angled rigid downpipe? OR am I asking for failure/breakage in a short time.

Using the stock metro turbo manifolds and also standard T3 turbo.

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22nd Feb, 2006 at 06:22:14pm

I would imagne to stop the clamp starting blowing.....

Remember the engines rock on rubber mounts.

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22nd Feb, 2006 at 06:23:45pm

In a mini - and assuming you have poly-bushed / Hard rubbers in your engine steady and the 'ultimate' one; then I'm pretty sure you won't need the balljoint. An LCB doesn't have one afterall.
In a metro however - you DEFINATELY need it...

What is very important though - is that you run a single 'bracket' between the diff casing/output flanges to the bottom of the downpipe. This keeps everything in check and avoids any breakage.

I'll be doing away with the ball-joint this year *wink*

Edited by turbodave16v on 22nd Feb, 2006.

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22nd Feb, 2006 at 08:30:25pm

my exaust pipe ball joint has been placed into position and now welded solid,

as it was causing me problems moving near the body work flexing too much!

i then wraped the exaust with bandage to cool the noise & heat down it works a treat.

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warwick

27th Aug, 2010 at 07:34:10pm

wheres the best place to source a flexible downpipe elbow desparatly need one.

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27th Aug, 2010 at 07:39:38pm

Avonbar, maniflow

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warwick

27th Aug, 2010 at 07:41:11pm

cheers rick

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