Greetz All,
I discovered a crack in the single outlet exhaust manifold of my '86 GTI while I was replacing the head gasket.
Instead of repairing it, I decided it would be a good time to swap in a dual outlet manifold and downpipe. No real problems here, everything seemed to go in OK and it's up and running fine. The one small problem I do have is that the downpipe has only about 1/8"-1/4" clearance to the steering rack. I didn't notice this while I was putting everything back together. Now, whenever I accelerate, the pipe vibrates against the steering rack. And if I really get on it, the whole car vibrates pretty bad.
Has anybody else done this conversion and run into this problem? I can't see any easy way to fix it. I can't relocate the downpipe like I could if it were just the exhaust pipes. Did the later Golfs have a different steering rack that had a bit more clearance? Or is this just something I shouldn't have done and the only real fix is to go back to the single outlet style.
TIA Ed
---------------------------- '01 Golf GLS '86 GTI (aka: Beauty and the Beast)