best place to buy a hytech replica?

judderod · Post by **judderod** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:18 pm

I guess you guys have older cars that don't need a cat for MOT... I have to stick one on every bloody year to pass! Last year even tho I spent ages fitting one it still didn't pass (turned out the HT leads were bad) but luckily the MOT tester who's usually straighter than an arrow just put it though. This year I'm gonna fit a proper sports cat since I've got the space for one on the system anyway and hopefully it'll pass and not sound quite so rudeboy.

Anyway back OT, I bought mine from honda-lab. It looks like ebay item 290595943014 at the moment. Excellent quality, still doing great after a few years. I got it with the optional extension pipe which I had butt welded to a 2.5 DC sports downpipe to take it to the standard cat/decat flange and location.

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:26 pm

cheers dude. How is the group clearance on yours? We have a stupid amount of speed bumps around here

Post by **Merlin** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:30 pm

judderod wrote: guess you guys have older cars that don't need a cat for MOT

BB4 yo!

Post by **vanzep** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:37 pm

A1ex wrote:If you don't get on with it, I'll take the system off your hands

thats always an option

Dbo wrote:man up
noise is good the louder the better you woss

pretty sure my lude is one of the loudest out there - was before i fitted the hytech and definately is now after ive fitted it

im getting bouts of tinitus after driving it at the mo

Merlin wrote:
Dbo wrote:noise is good
Untill you get kicked off track or the police pull you for a nosey I try not to give those bastards an excuse.

i agree

judderod · Post by **judderod** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:37 pm

I decided to modify mine to be tighter up to the sump. As it came there was about 13mm clearance to the sump, but when I'd finished I got it down to about 3mm. Took ages and obviously had to be very careful but it was worth it - loads of speedhumps around here too, and those middle-of-the-lane ones and not a single scrape so far. Car is lowered about 20mm and we can still fly over them at 20-30 with 4 in the car.

I posted it somewhere, I think maybe on my build thread on preludeuk.

(Really better do some work now

)

Dbo · Post by **Dbo** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:40 pm

BB1 with 3 months out but very nice mot man

YO!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **vanzep** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:41 pm

a lot of speed bumps where i live and so far no probs with them
one thing i should mention if you planning on fitting one of these is check your front motor mount as this will make a difference to fitment - last three ludes that ive looked at have had knackered front mounts including the one on my own car

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:30 pm

newkid wrote:I wouldnt be buying it from ebay as you can get it cheaper than there and thats after paying the import taxes etc.

go on...

crigal.bb6 · Post by **crigal.bb6** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:35 pm

Where can you get it cheaper than ebay usa? Wanted a hytec replica for a while now! What dimensions are these headers/manifold? 2.5"?

Post by **vanzep** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:10 pm

cheapest place ive ever seen it for sale was from @Newkid in the group buy section ... info should still be there and its a 2.5inch system and im sure there was discussion a few weeks back on headers and quite a few of us put up the actual dimensions on a few of the high performance headers-again youd have to do a search