30-04-2012, 05:45 PM
Had a semi-productive weekend with the car 
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I ninja bought some stuff (although maybe not so ninja, I know some of you have noticed already). I saw someone was selling a magnex exhaust with decat, so jumped straight on that as mine has been blowing since I bought it and I knew it needed doing. Anyway, it was at Pug Performance in Alton (some of you may remember I have a bit of a history with them with the S16, but that's another story) so I went down to pick it up, and stopped off at Ed's house on the way back to catch up and have many cups of tea. We took a proper look at the exhaust, as I (rather stupidly) hadn't checked any part numbers on the exhaust, and lo and behold by the time I got home, Ed was phoning me to confirm our suspicions that it wasn't actually a magnex
Turns out it's actually a mongoose system, which is arguably better than the magnex. I'm not too happy that they mis-sold the product to me, and I'll be letting them know they need to check part numbers a bit more carefully. Also, to you guys, be careful to get part number stamps sent over when buying something like this.
Niall and Grant were kind enough to come over today to help fit it (even though it was raining), so we popped up to Costco and grabbed an awesome pizza to set us off for the afternoon. After a few failings along the way, we had some success and got the exhaust fitted. The decat hasn't been fitted yet, as the bolts were spinning when Niall tried to remove the cat and we didn't have a cat fitting kit yet. Also the rear hanger on the exhaust seems to be out of position, so either I need a different mount or the hanger needs to be modified to fit 100% as it should.
It's not currently centred in the hole at the back, so I'll hold off posting a pic for now.
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I ninja bought some stuff (although maybe not so ninja, I know some of you have noticed already). I saw someone was selling a magnex exhaust with decat, so jumped straight on that as mine has been blowing since I bought it and I knew it needed doing. Anyway, it was at Pug Performance in Alton (some of you may remember I have a bit of a history with them with the S16, but that's another story) so I went down to pick it up, and stopped off at Ed's house on the way back to catch up and have many cups of tea. We took a proper look at the exhaust, as I (rather stupidly) hadn't checked any part numbers on the exhaust, and lo and behold by the time I got home, Ed was phoning me to confirm our suspicions that it wasn't actually a magnex
Turns out it's actually a mongoose system, which is arguably better than the magnex. I'm not too happy that they mis-sold the product to me, and I'll be letting them know they need to check part numbers a bit more carefully. Also, to you guys, be careful to get part number stamps sent over when buying something like this.Niall and Grant were kind enough to come over today to help fit it (even though it was raining), so we popped up to Costco and grabbed an awesome pizza to set us off for the afternoon. After a few failings along the way, we had some success and got the exhaust fitted. The decat hasn't been fitted yet, as the bolts were spinning when Niall tried to remove the cat and we didn't have a cat fitting kit yet. Also the rear hanger on the exhaust seems to be out of position, so either I need a different mount or the hanger needs to be modified to fit 100% as it should.
It's not currently centred in the hole at the back, so I'll hold off posting a pic for now.