Polar_Bus
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Well, I thought this pipe install was going to be easy, and oh my head what a ROYAL PIA to get this pipe to fit ! For whatever reason the pipe bracket was too high to be able to clamp to the lower chassis tab at the rear. I don't know why my bracket was so far off, all the vids I watched the install was pretty easy. I'm wondering if my CY 36cc engine has a higher exhaust port outlet. Anyway, enough ranting, here's how I got it to fit.
The 1st problem was my pipe mount bracket directly hit against the LH rear sway bar bracket. This was aggravating as I didn't know how I was going to get around this interference as there is not much wiggle room for alternate pipe mounting options. After about an hour of mulling over options, I was almost ready to ditch the rear sway bar and just run a front. Then I got an idea to see if I could flip the rear sway bar mounts upside down. This worked excellent ! With the mounts reversed it moves the sway bar up higher just enough to give me room to push the pipe a bit more forwards and now it fits better (still, a VERY tight fit).
Next issue is the bracket is still to high. I'm going to need to make a custom mount spacer. Again this is a very tight fit and the spacer bracket needs to be perfect. The rear bumper cage assembly is SO close to the pipe. I fabbed an aluminum spacer and used a thick plastic collar to absorb some vibrations. The DDM pipe uses a male / female slip joint that's held by a spring. I had to modify the rear bumper cage on the LH side to gain some needed clearance:
Next I needed to fit the spacer. I used the M5 countersunk screw supplied by DDM to secure up through the bottom, had to cut about 1/4" off the length of the bolt:
Lastly I had to modify the top LH roll bar tube to gain some needed clearance :
Finally finished. This was another all day ordeal. Seems EVERYTHING I get my hands on doesn't fit, or is just wrong, and it's getting on my nerves bad. But, behold a nice fitting pipe that makes killer power and won't be super loud. Very happy with the quality of the DDM pipes, very beefy and excellent craftsmanship:
The 1st problem was my pipe mount bracket directly hit against the LH rear sway bar bracket. This was aggravating as I didn't know how I was going to get around this interference as there is not much wiggle room for alternate pipe mounting options. After about an hour of mulling over options, I was almost ready to ditch the rear sway bar and just run a front. Then I got an idea to see if I could flip the rear sway bar mounts upside down. This worked excellent ! With the mounts reversed it moves the sway bar up higher just enough to give me room to push the pipe a bit more forwards and now it fits better (still, a VERY tight fit).
Next issue is the bracket is still to high. I'm going to need to make a custom mount spacer. Again this is a very tight fit and the spacer bracket needs to be perfect. The rear bumper cage assembly is SO close to the pipe. I fabbed an aluminum spacer and used a thick plastic collar to absorb some vibrations. The DDM pipe uses a male / female slip joint that's held by a spring. I had to modify the rear bumper cage on the LH side to gain some needed clearance:
Next I needed to fit the spacer. I used the M5 countersunk screw supplied by DDM to secure up through the bottom, had to cut about 1/4" off the length of the bolt:
Lastly I had to modify the top LH roll bar tube to gain some needed clearance :
Finally finished. This was another all day ordeal. Seems EVERYTHING I get my hands on doesn't fit, or is just wrong, and it's getting on my nerves bad. But, behold a nice fitting pipe that makes killer power and won't be super loud. Very happy with the quality of the DDM pipes, very beefy and excellent craftsmanship:
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