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Old 12-12-2013, 10:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Dan Stokes View Post
Neither. The head pipe will expand and contract a great deal with temperature and remember it will do so primarily along it's length (not much change in diameter). You gave it no place to "grow" so it broke itself apart - hence the flex section up by the turbo in the stock system. Mimic the stock system and you should be fine.

Dan
I thought the bellows took care of most of the expansion and contraction issues of heat though, right after the turbo instead of the actual downpipe?

Still, you have a point as I was also missing the bellows anyway.

I can definitely see the lack of a bellows doing the job of cracking off a welded steel mount
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