Haha wow looks like MN last month!

 

Holy Cow Rob!

 

hi, sorry to revive this old thread..looking into buying an o2/dp again.. i'm leaning towards your product..was just wondering what was the resolution or the workaround for the weak a$$ valve cover of 2010?

 

I haven't heard of any issues from the DP, just tubular manifolds I believe?

 

Yes, I believe it was just tubular manifolds but you can run DEI's reflect-a-gold tape on it to keep it from melting.

 

oh i misunderstood your discussions with Kracka then my bad

 

No problemo!

 

Correct x2

MAP o2 elim dp here on my 2010 and zero issues; I did get it ceramic coated though. I've had it since last November (~10k miles so far).

 

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference in this type of downpipe and a "traditional" one?

 

Standard downpipe doesn't delete the o2 housing, ours does.

 

Well I kind of got that -- I guess what I'm asking is what's the benefit to no O2 housing as opposed to just an extender or something to get the sensor a bit more out of the direct flow?

 

The downpipe alone is very short and just replaceing that gives you no gains at all. It's better to replace the downpipe/O2 with a better aftermarket one, for example, AMS's widemouth, ETS's downpipe/o2, Map's downpipe/02, which I will be buying soon .

 

I think that explains it!

In my Sky -- the only turbo car I've had any real work on, the downpipe and cat/02 were all one pipe. About 3' long. I assumed this to be the same.

 

The "o2 housing" is also called the turbo outlet elbow. O2 elim downpipes do not delete the factory catalytic converter, you will need a HFC or testpipe for that. My guess is MAP could weld their o2 elim dp and testpipe together for you making one big o2/cat elim dp.

 

So in this car, two pipes prior to the catback.