New bits for hachi

[Ian.G]

Finally got round to fitting some of the T3 bits to hachi this weekend with the help of my brother.

First off was the quickshift kit. Its a real joy to work on the hachi interior. Its that 80s build quality that just falls apart in your hands. To remove the lower central console and tranny console was about 10 screws and 1 minute. - if it had been my VW Golf I would have needed all sorts of specialist tools and 2 hours.

Rubber gator and inner liner in good condition with no splits so could be re-used. The small rubber boot that covers the greasy bit was split but we managed to use the main part of the boot to stop the grease escaping on the new shifter. installed gasket goo onto the gearbox casing and the spacer plate and bolted it all back up.

The throw on the gearstick is now great - very small compared to before and it makes changing feel very very snicky and quick (funny that a quickshift would have that effect LOL).

Next job was the decat pipe. On first inspection we thought we'd need to weld some hangers onto the pipe but as we took the old one off we realised the hangers were on a bracket/backplate to join the 2 sections. This needed to be attacked with an angle grinder so that it would allow the flange of the new decat pipe to fit inside.

My cat pipe also had a sensor 'after' the catalyst which goes back up into the car under the passenger seat. We traced these wires back to a socket in the passenger footwell near when the master circuit breaker is. I can only assume that this is a post catalyst O2 sensor (as described above in this thread).

The tech manuals on hachilife point me to these pages:



but there is nothingn really specific about it.

I am making a BIG assumption that my car would no longer use the 2nd O2 sensor because of the freedom ECU. The cat pipe is installed and the 2nd sensor is not being used. Car runs fine, no engine light, ecu 'seems' to be behaving itself.

I will try and contact moto-p and see if he can shed any light on this second sensor. Worst case is I need to take the pipe off again and get a boss welded on - but I'm pretty sure it will be fine as it is.

Car now sounds awesome - but not too loud.

Big Thankyou to Gabe and T3. The products are top notch. Now if he wants to make new trumpets and a cold air box for my ITBS that would be really cool