2000 1.8TQM. my flex pipe broke and holy shit between last night and tonight i spent over 8 hours replacing the downpipe. talk about absolutely no room to work... even if the bolts werent rusted to shit, theres no way i could have ever gotten to them. i ended up ripping out the air box and removing the catalytic converter and downpipe as one piece and then cutting the downpipe bolts off. i also bolted the new downpipe to the catalytic converter and installed it as one piece too, which made dealing with the rear o2 a pain in the ass.

edit: for some reason this website hates me and i cant post the rest of what i wanted to say

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2000 Audi A4 Quattro 1.8T 5 Speed
APR 93 Octane Chip
Forge 004 BOV

Waiting to install: VDO Boost Gauge, TurboXS HPBC

Yeah... its not fun.

And as for the website it hates everyone. I have trouble posting as well.

Josh

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well i have a '01 a4 1.8t with over 100k and it was very simple to do it and i did it at home at that. it took me about 2 hrs to do it.

i hate you lol

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2000 Audi A4 Quattro 1.8T 5 Speed
APR 93 Octane Chip
Forge 004 BOV

Waiting to install: VDO Boost Gauge, TurboXS HPBC

I think there's a certain character limit for some reason. You can't make long ass posts, otherwise it'll give you an "LOL DOWN" page.

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A4 1.8 CuTie
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Automotive role-playing sex:

simple job if you have a hydro ( trolley jack ) lift and don't forget you can buy the expansion joint as a clamp in which save the replacement of the cat