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Exhaust blowing: Flexible, CAT, Centre & Backbox - Advice required


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Good evening Ladies and Gents,

 

my 1.4 16V has been blowing for a little while and i was putting it off for as long as possible but this last weekend it has gotten really loud.

I went to STS in Hemel Hempstead and after they'd had a look, they quoted me £565. I almost fell off the chair! 

 

It is blowing badly from the flexible section and the back box is also in need of desperate replacement. I was told that the CAT and the flexible are one piece and this has to be replaced. No point in replacing the front and the back and not doing the middle. Also it appears to be the original exhaust system.

So it means that pretty much the whole system has to be replaced.

 

I do not have much to spend but it is one of those things that needs to be done.

 

Are there any cheaper performance exhausts for the 1.4 16V?

Maybe a mix and match?

 

TBH i am happy with the standard exhaust, but a little more growl wouldn't go amiss. However, I would like a nice tail piece.

I bought one ages ago but it never got fitted as the normal exhaust end bends downwards and the last time i went around to a few exhaust places, none of them said that they could fit it. I think it also needs a small length of pipe to extend it from the bend to where it can join the tail piece.

Yes it would also mean cutting some of the bottom of the bumper so the tail piece could protrude, and i'm fine with that. 

 

If i was to buy the bits separately, is there anyone close by that would be able to fit it for me and approx how much?

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Edited by entapryz
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Rear cat is part of the front pipe on the 1.4/16v (that link above doesn't seem to cover anything but 1.0/1.2),  I picked one up for about £75 last year from ECP, with some discount (that's hard to miss).  Don't suppose it'll last as long as the original (a dozen years) but it'll do. Back box shouldn't be more than 50-60 I'd imagine for standard; similar or less for the mid-section. 

Fitting isn't too hard DIY, but don't forget your safety glasses to keep the rust out of your eyes.

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My advice would be, to measure the flexi and order in from an exhaust specialist or just ebay, a flexi repair section - then get that welded into place.  After that chop the tail box if it is fault and leaking and not just got a delaminating outer skin, and fit a new tail box.

 

Measuring existing flexi:- measure the outer diamter of the exhaust just before/after the flexi + measure the rigid pipe tails on that flexi + measure the length of the flexi section to where the rigid tails start.  Use all these facts to work out which flexi you need, and make sure you buy the correct temperature grade one as that one is next to the mani-cat.

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