Well today was a fun day. In the light of day, I saw how much of a crap job the shop did. Started with the O2 sensors and 3 out of 4 I was able to reconnect. Just had to unclip and move the wiring back for the 2 post cats and the pass side connected right up. The driver side I had to extend about 5 inches. (used the tip to connect it first from the top and drop the sensor down to screw it in) Still got my hand scratched up as if I tried to pet a feral cat.
But, I removed all the sensors to be sure all were good and pass side post cat wasn't even screwed in all the way. The threads were all mangled. All the sensors had damaged hex from using an open end wrench.And I also saw a small piece of porcelain fall out of it. Cleaned up the threads, put some anti-seize (none of them had any) and installed it. It's dead throwing 3 codes
. Another $90 for that for a Denso from RA on the way.
Then I noticed some other things. Hangers were cock eyed as seen in one pic (didn't notice it then) and the welds look like they were done by an 8 year old.
And the icing on the cake. Since it's a rare car here, I told him I wanted to keep the original system in case I wanted to go back to stock. Instead of cutting the bolts at the flanges, he cut the pipes right next to them! Now they're practically useless to me.
I'll take some more pics and I'll write one helluva good review.
On another note, the "wife mode" plugs wouldn't go in now with the extended tips. They first came as shown but wouldn't go past half way with the packing. So I folded the packing so it only covers half of the baffle and they went in and tied it tight with steel wire. Just had to drill a hole on the bottom of the tips to screw in the cap screws I picked up. I also painted them flat black so they're not so obvious when they're in. They do work at reducing the drone and tone a bit.
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