Hello ,
As most of you might know if you read my progress thread i fitted a Supersprint manifold and Magnex cat bypass the other evening. It was only because i was doing a test fitting (off the car) whilst working on a How To Guide for fitting it, that i noticed a small problem with the mounting bracket on the down pipe (the part that joins to the cat) Fig: 4.
The manifold itself came with a set of very large 17mm bolts, 4 washers (two different sizes), some very chunky springs and no instructions telling me why they were there. I decided to use the fitting kit Fig: 1 that i got from Citroen presuming that it would be a straight fit, when i noticed it just wouldnt work. I tried it every way you could think and then decided to have a play with the 17mm bolts and some of the special Citroen washers you see in Fig: 1 to get the best fit i could. As soon as i tried the new combination i realised that the nuts on the down pipe mounting bracket Fig: 4 were off centre meaning that the bolts were slightly misaligned when they passed through the large holes on the cat bypass mounting bracket Fig: 4A. Because of this very slight error i couldnt use the Citroen parts shown crossed out in Fig: 1.
It was up to me to find the best possible solution and i couldnt use half the parts i had. In the end and after about an hour of messing about test fitting everything i hit upon the solution you see below. The pictures should explain everything because they have captions attatched to them but here is a quick run down.
( Fig: 1 + Fig: 2 + Gasket )
There was no way i could use the parts marked with red crosses (Fig: 1), they just wouldnt fit with the 17mm bolts (Fig: 2) due to the misalignment and the Citroen bolts were too short (Fig: 1). The Supersprint springs were shite and would rattle their tits off on the 17mm bolts because they were too round IMO. So i decided to go with the Citroen springs because they were more of a snug fit and gave me plenty of thread to play with on the bolts. The only other parts i had were the washers from the supersprint set and in all honesty they came in handy (Fig: 2). As you gathered by now (Fig: 2) shows us the selection of parts we need for the job. The final peice of the jigsaw is the wire gasket that makes the seal between the two pipes. I was going to use the Citroen gasket but i wasnt happy with the fit and decided to use the more substantial gasket that Magnex supplied (Fig: 5).
( Fig: 3 )
A simple picture showing how everything fits together after following the steps above.
( Fig: 4 + Fig: 5 )
Two more pictures showing how everything looks when it has been fitted together. As you gathered allready this was the only way that i could get things to work. I didnt bother adjusting the bolts properly because it had to be undone again anyway.
As most of you might know if you read my progress thread i fitted a Supersprint manifold and Magnex cat bypass the other evening. It was only because i was doing a test fitting (off the car) whilst working on a How To Guide for fitting it, that i noticed a small problem with the mounting bracket on the down pipe (the part that joins to the cat) Fig: 4.
The manifold itself came with a set of very large 17mm bolts, 4 washers (two different sizes), some very chunky springs and no instructions telling me why they were there. I decided to use the fitting kit Fig: 1 that i got from Citroen presuming that it would be a straight fit, when i noticed it just wouldnt work. I tried it every way you could think and then decided to have a play with the 17mm bolts and some of the special Citroen washers you see in Fig: 1 to get the best fit i could. As soon as i tried the new combination i realised that the nuts on the down pipe mounting bracket Fig: 4 were off centre meaning that the bolts were slightly misaligned when they passed through the large holes on the cat bypass mounting bracket Fig: 4A. Because of this very slight error i couldnt use the Citroen parts shown crossed out in Fig: 1.
It was up to me to find the best possible solution and i couldnt use half the parts i had. In the end and after about an hour of messing about test fitting everything i hit upon the solution you see below. The pictures should explain everything because they have captions attatched to them but here is a quick run down.
( Fig: 1 + Fig: 2 + Gasket )
There was no way i could use the parts marked with red crosses (Fig: 1), they just wouldnt fit with the 17mm bolts (Fig: 2) due to the misalignment and the Citroen bolts were too short (Fig: 1). The Supersprint springs were shite and would rattle their tits off on the 17mm bolts because they were too round IMO. So i decided to go with the Citroen springs because they were more of a snug fit and gave me plenty of thread to play with on the bolts. The only other parts i had were the washers from the supersprint set and in all honesty they came in handy (Fig: 2). As you gathered by now (Fig: 2) shows us the selection of parts we need for the job. The final peice of the jigsaw is the wire gasket that makes the seal between the two pipes. I was going to use the Citroen gasket but i wasnt happy with the fit and decided to use the more substantial gasket that Magnex supplied (Fig: 5).
( Fig: 3 )
A simple picture showing how everything fits together after following the steps above.
( Fig: 4 + Fig: 5 )
Two more pictures showing how everything looks when it has been fitted together. As you gathered allready this was the only way that i could get things to work. I didnt bother adjusting the bolts properly because it had to be undone again anyway.
. So to save you the pain here is the type of bracket you should need (see pics).
it should be the right one but just check anyway :d. If your like me then the first thing that will catch your eye are the nuts fitted to the three threads that are designed to hold the heat shield (Fig: 1 Manifold Review). The nuts on two of the threads nearest the back will be substantially damaged but i gather they are there to protect the thread when the manifold is being machined. You can take these off and dispose of them, if you do wish to fit a heat shield then you can replace the nuts with new ones.
