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Most likely gonna be a little pricey... AEM Uego Wideband O2 for sure... EGT if I can afford it.. and as for another... I'm unsure. Likely something simple like oil pressure. Of course for the oil pressure I'm gonna need a sandwich adaptor plate... Oh my. If I get real cheap, maybe I'll just put a vaccuum guage in there, or a voltage.... 
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UPDATE!! 
RRM Headers have arrived!! The Magnaflow catback is showing as "Out for delivery" on the postal service website as well!! Hopefully gonna be installed this afternoon. Here's a few pics I took of the headers while I wait patiently for the postman. As you'll see below, the craftsmanship of this piece is amazing. Quality of piping and welds is through the roof... You definitely get what you pay for! Mad props to the guys at RRM who managed to pull off outstanding customer service while still going through a really rough time. Thanks guys!
RRM Headers have arrived!! The Magnaflow catback is showing as "Out for delivery" on the postal service website as well!! Hopefully gonna be installed this afternoon. Here's a few pics I took of the headers while I wait patiently for the postman. As you'll see below, the craftsmanship of this piece is amazing. Quality of piping and welds is through the roof... You definitely get what you pay for! Mad props to the guys at RRM who managed to pull off outstanding customer service while still going through a really rough time. Thanks guys!
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And to finish off the update for today..... Magnaflow Cat-Back has arrived!!!
Unfortunately, the headers and cat-back will not be getting installed today since the post office was super slow getting the exhaust to me this morning. I sat in the apartment all morning, then I go and check my mailbox and the postman has left a delivery notice in there saying there was no answer!!! He must not have even tried! I can somewhat see why, since the cat-back was a pretty hefty item to carry... but still, I was waiting until 5pm this evening for the guy to drop it off at the post office depot... argh!
Anyways, the mechanics who I deal with say that they might be pretty busy tomorrow and that if I drop the car off they might get it done. I told them however that I want pictures of the process, or at least an undershot of the car, so I'll have to check with them in the morning and see how it'll turn out. Either way... the parts are here, and they're gonna be installed ASAP!!! Stay "tuned"!
Unfortunately, the headers and cat-back will not be getting installed today since the post office was super slow getting the exhaust to me this morning. I sat in the apartment all morning, then I go and check my mailbox and the postman has left a delivery notice in there saying there was no answer!!! He must not have even tried! I can somewhat see why, since the cat-back was a pretty hefty item to carry... but still, I was waiting until 5pm this evening for the guy to drop it off at the post office depot... argh!
Anyways, the mechanics who I deal with say that they might be pretty busy tomorrow and that if I drop the car off they might get it done. I told them however that I want pictures of the process, or at least an undershot of the car, so I'll have to check with them in the morning and see how it'll turn out. Either way... the parts are here, and they're gonna be installed ASAP!!! Stay "tuned"!
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Ok... April 26th @ 6:40pm... I look out the window, and what do I see? THIS!!! 
I think there might be something to this Climate Change thing afterall huh??
I think there might be something to this Climate Change thing afterall huh??
congrats on the new parts!!.. glad to see the progress hasnt stopped!!.. when are the coil-overs coming??.. atleast get some 200 dollar sleeves like mine.. i dont see how they would kill your shocks since you cant go lower than 2 inches anyways..
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Read through the whole thing. Nice build up. You could of turboed your car for as much money you spent into it though. Haha. Anyways car looks nice. Sucks about the snow though..
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EXHAUST IS IN!!!
Ok... so, where to begin? I'll start by saying that for those of you who did these installs on your own.. Congrats!! After watching the mechanics work their magic on my car today, I honestly think that this would have taken me AGES to do and possibly be near impossible with the tools I had access to when the car was in storage. First of all, thanks to RRM and Magnaflow for awesome products. With that said.. on to some pointers for people looking to do this work on their car. Gaskets... the kits have none. I picked up a new exhaust manifold gasket, and 2 exhaust gaskets. One for the connection from the header to the flex/midpipe, and another for between the 2nd catalytic converter and the Magnaflow cat-back system. Along with those gaskets, I picked up a new bolt and washer set to bolt on the header itself since the old ones were a little rusted. The nuts could have been reused, but I figured I'd do it right. The gaskets and nuts/washers brought me to an additional cost of around $74 CDN. Oh yeah... almost forgot. For that extra nut holding on the exhaust manifold which some people use the "rope trick" etc.. to get off, the mechanic used a "wobble head wratchet" which managed to get into the tight spot very nicely.
Next issue was basically that the stock midpipe and flex pipe were severely corroded. The stock pipe is actually compressed pretty flat where it passes under the front control arms, and the guys were saying that I'm likely gonna be losing a bit of smooth airflow there. Needless to say, I was in a bit of a hurry, and didn't have the time nor the cash to go looking for custom piping, so I told them to go ahead and bolt on to the stock piping which I'll replace somewhere down the line. With all that, the install was underway at least. The stock manifold was off, the new exhaust manifold gasket was on, and the header was bolted on. The big thing noteworthy here is that it seems the RRM header places the first oxygen sensor a bit further down than the stock, so when the mechanic went to plug it back into the wiring harness... guess what! it wasn't long enough! With a little bit of fooling around unclipping the oxygen sensor wire from it's group in the wiring harness, and passing it under a few other wires, they managed to get enough slack in order to reach the plug. The oxygen sensor wire plug also had originally been mounted to the engine, but it would no longer reach that way, so we removed the metal bracket from the sensor plug.. you can see it in one of the pictures below. Soo... header was finally checked off as done.
Next came the cat-back system. Install for that was pretty straight-forward. The nuts from the catalytic converter were fairly corroded, so they could not be reused. The clamps provided with the cat-back system were also a little weak as well, so once everything was lined up perfectly, they applied some supporting welds. Anyways, I'll try to put a little description above the pics as I post them just to give a bit more detail. In my opinion thou, definitely have a professional install these items. I'm really glad that I did.
Stock:
My buddy Frank admiring the nasty corroded stock piping:
Stock piping along with a little view of my RRM lower tie bar and Progress sway bar:
More stock piping:
Super corroded flex-pipe and cat:
My mechanic having some fun while I was going to get the gaskets:
Stock Manifold removed:
RRM Headers sitting in place waiting to be bolted:
Mechanic fooling with oxygen sensor plug:
Oxygen Sensor Plug Mounting Bracket:
Headers fully mounted:
Upward view of mounted headers:
Stock exhaust removed:
Car up on the lift:
Stock exhaust in pieces:
Magnaflow partially mounted:
Magnaflow fully mounted:
Sooooo... you may be asking "What about the power?". And I would say this: The power is awesome. It's not like you got turbo or something, but the effect that I mainly feel is that the initial torque you usually feel from gunning it from the line continues all through the powerband. It's one of those things you just feel and know it's happening. Like, before the exhaust, I'd get a quick jump off the line, but then you'd be waiting for your shift point and be after settling in your seat again. With this exhaust setup, you just feel your shift point coming and it's continuous torque all the way there. In your head, you can just picture a fire hose being turned on... at first, it's trickling... then it's a little stream... then it's pouring.. and finally it's bursting. That bursting feeling is exactly what 3800 RPM to redline feel like now. Beyond all that.. the sound is AWESOME. Such a smooth angry purr is all I can describe it as. If you let the car rev at around 4000rpm constantly, the cabin almost deafens you with a deep deep bass. It's just amazing.. what a difference. Now, what are you all doing reading this... get ordering!!
Cheers,
-Super pumped Newfoundlancer
PS: Just to add that so far RRM's CEL eliminator seems to be working *knock on wood*. No lights on yet
Ok... so, where to begin? I'll start by saying that for those of you who did these installs on your own.. Congrats!! After watching the mechanics work their magic on my car today, I honestly think that this would have taken me AGES to do and possibly be near impossible with the tools I had access to when the car was in storage. First of all, thanks to RRM and Magnaflow for awesome products. With that said.. on to some pointers for people looking to do this work on their car. Gaskets... the kits have none. I picked up a new exhaust manifold gasket, and 2 exhaust gaskets. One for the connection from the header to the flex/midpipe, and another for between the 2nd catalytic converter and the Magnaflow cat-back system. Along with those gaskets, I picked up a new bolt and washer set to bolt on the header itself since the old ones were a little rusted. The nuts could have been reused, but I figured I'd do it right. The gaskets and nuts/washers brought me to an additional cost of around $74 CDN. Oh yeah... almost forgot. For that extra nut holding on the exhaust manifold which some people use the "rope trick" etc.. to get off, the mechanic used a "wobble head wratchet" which managed to get into the tight spot very nicely.
Next issue was basically that the stock midpipe and flex pipe were severely corroded. The stock pipe is actually compressed pretty flat where it passes under the front control arms, and the guys were saying that I'm likely gonna be losing a bit of smooth airflow there. Needless to say, I was in a bit of a hurry, and didn't have the time nor the cash to go looking for custom piping, so I told them to go ahead and bolt on to the stock piping which I'll replace somewhere down the line. With all that, the install was underway at least. The stock manifold was off, the new exhaust manifold gasket was on, and the header was bolted on. The big thing noteworthy here is that it seems the RRM header places the first oxygen sensor a bit further down than the stock, so when the mechanic went to plug it back into the wiring harness... guess what! it wasn't long enough! With a little bit of fooling around unclipping the oxygen sensor wire from it's group in the wiring harness, and passing it under a few other wires, they managed to get enough slack in order to reach the plug. The oxygen sensor wire plug also had originally been mounted to the engine, but it would no longer reach that way, so we removed the metal bracket from the sensor plug.. you can see it in one of the pictures below. Soo... header was finally checked off as done.
Next came the cat-back system. Install for that was pretty straight-forward. The nuts from the catalytic converter were fairly corroded, so they could not be reused. The clamps provided with the cat-back system were also a little weak as well, so once everything was lined up perfectly, they applied some supporting welds. Anyways, I'll try to put a little description above the pics as I post them just to give a bit more detail. In my opinion thou, definitely have a professional install these items. I'm really glad that I did.
Stock:
My buddy Frank admiring the nasty corroded stock piping:
Stock piping along with a little view of my RRM lower tie bar and Progress sway bar:
More stock piping:
Super corroded flex-pipe and cat:
My mechanic having some fun while I was going to get the gaskets:
Stock Manifold removed:
RRM Headers sitting in place waiting to be bolted:
Mechanic fooling with oxygen sensor plug:
Oxygen Sensor Plug Mounting Bracket:
Headers fully mounted:
Upward view of mounted headers:
Stock exhaust removed:
Car up on the lift:
Stock exhaust in pieces:
Magnaflow partially mounted:
Magnaflow fully mounted:
Sooooo... you may be asking "What about the power?". And I would say this: The power is awesome. It's not like you got turbo or something, but the effect that I mainly feel is that the initial torque you usually feel from gunning it from the line continues all through the powerband. It's one of those things you just feel and know it's happening. Like, before the exhaust, I'd get a quick jump off the line, but then you'd be waiting for your shift point and be after settling in your seat again. With this exhaust setup, you just feel your shift point coming and it's continuous torque all the way there. In your head, you can just picture a fire hose being turned on... at first, it's trickling... then it's a little stream... then it's pouring.. and finally it's bursting. That bursting feeling is exactly what 3800 RPM to redline feel like now. Beyond all that.. the sound is AWESOME. Such a smooth angry purr is all I can describe it as. If you let the car rev at around 4000rpm constantly, the cabin almost deafens you with a deep deep bass. It's just amazing.. what a difference. Now, what are you all doing reading this... get ordering!!
Cheers,
-Super pumped Newfoundlancer
PS: Just to add that so far RRM's CEL eliminator seems to be working *knock on wood*. No lights on yet
Last edited by Newfoundlancer; Apr 27, 2007 at 04:27 PM.
i have magnaflow and love the sound. Ive never heard in person a lancer with a header but it must be much louder. You could have done this install. especially the exhaust. its super easy.
