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Originally Posted by Shady195
I e-mailed grimmspeed to ask them but am awaiting a response. However I may order it anyways just to see.
I have a PLM header which as a 3" flange mating to the 2.5" flange of the stock and aftermarket overpipe I just bought. Now with this I had to sort of rig it up using a 3" and 2.5" exhaust gasket. Not exactly ideal or efficient.
Short of taking out my header and finding a place that can adapt it to the 2.5" I decided to google around and see if people had soloutions to doing such a thing for those of us without the tools/know how to do such a thing or want to pay a shop to do so..
I came across this...
http://www.maperformance.com/grimmsp...ck-subaru.html
It's meant to mate a 3" downpipe, however I'd imagine it would also work for this application as well and may help me also when I change out my front pipe to my TRD exhaust which uses a donut gasket..
Was not sure if anyone else has seen this before, but figured id share and keep this thread updated as I do plan on ordering it regardless. |
Lots of the guys here (including who you emailed) were gone for Wicked Big Meet. I stayed here designing parts like a good boy :P
So this is certainly an interesting use of our downpipe adapter. I think it'll probably work for you, but after some modification. Subaru has "interesting" bolt spacing on their flanges. So I bet the 3in side will bolt up to the adapter fine, but the overpipe will not I don't believe.
I just grabbed an adapter, and the gasket that would go between the header and overpipe, and the gasket doesn't fit over the section of tube intended for the donut gasket. No big deal, you could cut that off. BUT, the bolt holes just barely don't line up either. They might, and they might not. I'd remedy that by just cutting a slot for the hole. But you'll probably have to do that in your overpipe flange too. Of course, I'm probably wrong as your set up already allows you to bolt that 3 in flange to the overpipe.
So we'll see. But with such an unorthodox setup that we personally can't test we won't know for sure until you try. Since I can't see whatever question you emailed in, is there any specific question you want to ask me?
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