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Will do :) And are you talking exhaust muffler?

I know, its perverse! D: hahaha I'm looking at 17" wheels to make the height seem less drastic and to raise the car off the ground a bit, but that's why im asking about a suspension system because it will unlikely lower the car too far and the wheels will scrape on the wheel arches .... And...

In order: 1.) My car (duh) ;) 2.) Rear wheel ride height 3.) Exhaust muffler 4.) Exhaust muffler 5.) Front wheel ride height

It's not actually a 160, thats just the picture i used ..... i'll go take a picture for y'all now ;)

Yeah, it goes out the middle .... I was just as confused as you were when I took it out of the box and held it up under the car. And the body kit would just be a front and rear bumper and sideskirts, should the bodywork specialist I know accept the challenge that is ....

I'll go out and take a proper picture of the exhaust later :D bu that's pretty much where it is at the moment

It's just the muffler that scrapes on the ground, everything else is fine. It's only because its aftermarket that it hangs rather low, and because it comes out of the centre rather than on the standard left-hand side, I've drilled a hole through the bottom of the spare wheel well and put a bolt...

After fitting an aftermarket exhaust muffler and back-box, the exhaust has a tendency to scrape on the road when going over speed-bumps with any sort of weight in the back of the car in excess of 40kg or so. I was looking at a Koni suspension kit which would lower the car by at least 30mm, but...

Buy a standard pipercross or K&N induction kit, some appropriate piping (I used a 30cm aluminium pipe from the filter and then a flexi-fabric pipe from the filter to the airbox), some revotec hose reducers to seal the pipe together, some jubilee/ worm gear clamps and a hose reducer (from...

Genius ;) haha so the blow off valve will do its own thing when you take your foot off the throttle, whereas the wastegate needs to be manipulated by a boost controller for increased boost levels whilst running the turbo with the throttle open?

So a wastegate circulates air from the exhaust side when the pressure gets too high and the bov releases trapped pressure when the throttle is closed?

Ahhh right, got it :D now, wideband oxygen sensor: yes or no?

So you've got a blue blow off valve that goes from the manifold side of the exhaust portion of your turbo to a separate dump pipe? And the external wastegate is the black valve that goes from .... to ....? And in my own setup, the black gfb blow off valve uses the silver pipe to connect the...

The nipple on top would come from the pre-turbo and the silver end goes to the exhaust manifold?

so that isn't a wastegate?

Tubby? And can you reccommend any decent external wastegates? I was honestly considering one just to get the blow off sound ;) The gfb one is good but its pretty expensive, plus itd need to have a special flange welded onto the wastegate .....

Ahhh gotcha :D a great cloud of confusion has been cleared hahaha :P

ahhh k, what is the carbon canister for ...? So you could just feed the brake line to just behind the throttle body? And an external wastegate would come from the pre-turbo nipple and then bolt onto the exhaust manifold via a flange?

Hmm good call ...... that's another good point actually, the old air box would have to be torn about so that the throttle body could be directly plumbed to the turbo without the boost pressure going into an airbox which has the throttle body fixed inside it. So, where would the brake line and...

i heard somewhere that running these pipes too close together can compromise your readings .... would these readings have to be taken from the inlet manifold before the manifold splits into it's individual cylinder inlets or can you take these readings from the individual inlet pipes?