down pipe part II

[Gowf]

Here's another thought.... How far off are the 3000GT pipes? Maybe BenH/Gowf could advise?

I know they're not a direct fit, but if they're not a million miles out, maybe ordering some from the US via Ebay, and then modifying them so they fit our cars is a posibility? I mean, if they're pretty close, then I would consider buying them and doing a quick chop/weld where needed to make them offer up correctly - obviously if they're miles out then it's perhaps not such a good idea.

Unfortunately they are more than a little different. There arnt really any bends in them as such, they are pretty much a straight pipe. Your best bet if you wanted to go down that route, would be to get hold of a set of FTO downpipes as they are closer. Dont let me mislead you though by thinking that closer is even remotely close, but they do have the nessessary bends, although the distance between the two inlets is shorter.

Got to vouch for Axeboy here... He had his downpipes made by C&C in glasgow (where i had my exhaust made). I have used them for most of the cars ive owned, and after seeing the downpipes when fitting to Paul's car they were very well made indeed. Their welding was a work of art.
So the £300 was an absolute bargain!

[MarkSanne]

I priced up the first one and it initially comes out at £256 which is a good start for me!

Did you manage to get a price from YR? I only received a very short email that they did not speak english!

However I'm hopefully awaiting the reply email from ps-iida because that downpipe looks better with it's y-shape. This time I'll be even more patient and will wait for days. If there's anything new, I'll post it here.

Thanks btw for all the custom made reply's. Maybe I can find a cheaper builder over here too, but I doubt it. People working with their hands are getting extremely expensive over here...

[Beastlee]

I only did a basic currency conversion of the advertised price to get a base figure. I figured £256 was reasonable given the price of the standard parts but I don't now about tax and postage on top.
I'd seriously consider custom made ones and I wonder if the guys I trusted to do my other stainless exhausts if it was at the right price.

[The Vee]

Do not under estimate the amount of work to make a set of downpipes , even worse do not under estimate how hard it is to make with the car on stands

This is not a simple task at all it may just look like a bit of metal pipe bent here and there with a few welds - but the amount of effort to make them is huge .

Don't let me put you off please but do think long and hard about making your own , but if you need any advise then ask away as between me and richy we have made about 3 sets of which only one is good enough

Yeah I can vouch for your comments - had to make a set for my conversion, and that was using bits of V6 pipe and bits of VR4 pipe so a few bits were "pre formed!) TBH though - quite tempted to have a go at a stailess job. Oh, yes and mine was on stands too, still have the dent in my forhead where i dropped one of the flanged pipes

[Nutter_John]

Well to help people make theres I will be posting in the for sale section most of the parts you need to make a set of downpipes

This should be in this evening

[Kieran]

Well to help people make theres I will be posting in the for sale section most of the parts you need to make a set of downpipes

This should be in this evening

Are you posting them as a self-assemble 'Kit' John?

[Nutter_John]

I will be selling them as single parts but will tell people how many we used of each to make the set on my car , i would also reconmend that people buy over the amount needed for waste and errors

[phosty]

Gowf,

Who are C&C in Glasgow? Not too far for me, might be looking at an exhaust too.

[Kieran]

I will be selling them as single parts but will tell people how many we used of each to make the set on my car , i would also reconmend that people buy over the amount needed for waste and errors

Goodoh! Hope it's cheap!

[Nutter_John]

will be cost price , basically i am off all stock that was purchased for WRD to make the DP's

Most of the stuff you can get online but flanges etc have to be made to size , which there is enough for 9 full sets

[Nutter_John]

Ok I have created a add in the classfieds for these bits , now from memory these are the bits you will need

4 x 2.5" 90 degree bends
1 x 3" 90 bend or 1 x 45 bend
2 x turbo flanges
1 x cat flange
1 x 3" flexi
depending on the design you choose 1 x 2.5 flexi
1m x 3"
1m x 2.5"

Now thats enough to make 1 set - AS LONG AS you make no mistakes

[Gowf]

Gowf,

Who are C&C in Glasgow? Not too far for me, might be looking at an exhaust too.

They are based around the airport-ish. Really nice blokes and they do an amazing job!

http://www.stainlessexhausts.com/

Just tell them that gareth with the legnum vr4 that had the audi s6 told you about them. they are very reasonable

[Goku]

They're not stainless or anything fancy like that, that costs a bit more.

[MarkSanne]

Got some more news! RDHjapan.co.jp mailed me (again) but this time about about the ps-iida.co.jp downpipe (the nicer y-shaped one). They can ship it to me for 69000 YEN which is not a bad price at all!!

Still waiting for the direct ps-iida.co.jp resonse, should be even a bit lower price I recon. It does take patience to communicate with them, but even for 69000 YEN (390 euro/250 uk pound/640 NZ $) I'll go for it, and skip the welding myself part.

[Kieran]

69000 Yen delivered? I'm there!

[MarkSanne]

69000 Yen delivered? I'm there!

figured that this would get others besides myself excited

[Beastlee]

Yep, definitely a deal there. I wonder if they's do it even cheaper for a bulk buy?

[MarkSanne]

oooh that could be interesting! I'll ask which quantities will get us discount!

[Beastlee]

Mark I have Systran installed on my laptop. I'm sure it will do Japanese/Dutch translations if it helps. I know it does Japanese/English translation to a resonable level.

[MarkSanne]

Thanks Beastlee, but those guys from RDHjapan.com speak (or better write) english just fine, and for japanese->english I'm using both Babelfish and Google Translate and that does most of the trick.

But as a matter of fact, I've already received an anwser to my group-buy request:

Thanks for the question. We can ship the down pipe at a cheaper rate if we ship them all together but that is about all we can do because the small shops dont give us enough of a discount to begin with.

( this was my mail to them, first I told them about clubvr4.com: )

Is there any posibility to do a group-buy with you as a partner?
I'm thinking of the price for 5 pieces and the price for 10 pieces for
starters.

Or maybe a club-vr4-discount for each individual order when placed?
Every clubmember has got a unique number that can be verified. Our club is
succesfully partnering with several suppliers this way.

Since the Galant/Legnum VR4 has never been officially imported to the UK,
NZ, Australia, nor to the US or Europe, we heavily depend on various sources that can deliver us parts for our beloved cars. Our club currently
has just over 400 members, most of them owning a Galant VR4 or Legnum VR4.