Cat Bypass Installed

[Fred-WA]

Just installed the cat bypass and all went well. Here are a few things to note:


1. It helps to have someone who is automotive savvy do the install. My son-in-law does his own car maintenance and has a good set of tools. Made the job a lot easier.


2. I would read and print out all the past cat bypass comments. There are a lot of good suggestions that will make the install go easier.


3. I bought a pipe expander (too small) and ended up bending the pipe edges with a cresant wrench.


4. We used a floor jack to raise the bike up and a small jack from my car to position the bypass.


5. I bought a headlight spring tool to take off and put back on the pipe spring. This tool was very useful.


6. When working with the spring it can come off and end up in the surrounding panel. Use a magnet tool to retrieve it.


7. Using lithium grease on the inside of the bypass pipes was very helpful.


8. The install time took a little over two hours. Fired up the spyder and she sounds great. Looking forward to a little more performance out of the 998 and a lot less heat in the passenger area.

 

[lwrydr]

Cat-delete

I just ordered mine....I also got the AF-air filer and am going to install them both..should be interesting..

 

[redneck diva]

can you post a video with the new sound?
wondering how it would sound on the new 3-cylinder 14 model

 

[taxmyzer]

Just installed the cat bypass and all went well. Here are a few things to note:


1. It helps to have someone who is automotive savvy do the install. My son-in-law does his own car maintenance and has a good set of tools. Made the job a lot easier.


2. I would read and print out all the past cat bypass comments. There are a lot of good suggestions that will make the install go easier.


3. I bought a pipe expander (too small) and ended up bending the pipe edges with a cresant wrench.


4. We used a floor jack to raise the bike up and a small jack from my car to position the bypass.


5. I bought a headlight spring tool to take off and put back on the pipe spring. This tool was very useful.


6. When working with the spring it can come off and end up in the surrounding panel. Use a magnet tool to retrieve it.


7. Using lithium grease on the inside of the bypass pipes was very helpful.


8. The install time took a little over two hours. Fired up the spyder and she sounds great. Looking forward to a little more performance out of the 998 and a lot less heat in the passenger area.

Hey glad you got the job done. Also glad the lithium grease helped. Enjoy the new sound!

 

[murphybrown]

Nice very nice

can you post a video with the new sound?
wondering how it would sound on the new 3-cylinder 14 model

is how my RTS 2014 sounds with the cat installed. Sorry no video skills. :thumbup:

 

[pwm]

That's my next install.

 

[napper39]

at the end of his post he said 998 engine so no 3 cylenders.:chat:

 

[SpyderAnn01]

Way to go Fred :yes:I knew you could do it.

 

[Chupaca]

Well done..!!

always nice to have a helping hand. No one around here so have kearned to create helping hands. Nice explanation and tips this will help those doing this mods here shortly...thanks and congrats..!! :2thumbs:

 

[murphybrown]

I installed

at the end of his post he said 998 engine so no 3 cylenders.:chat:

actually should say HAD INSTALLED on my 2014 - 1330cc engine. Awesome mod:thumbup:

 

[Benggolf]

Thank you guys for all the encouraging news on the CAT delete by-pass.
I have been sitting the fence on this project for a while and installed the Akrapovic
muffler without the by-pass.

Now you guys convinced me and am biting the bullet! Just requested Lamont to send me
his CAT by-pass. ray:

 

[Jeffsm69]

Thank you guys for all the encouraging news on the CAT delete by-pass.
I have been sitting the fence on this project for a while and installed the Akrapovic
muffler without the by-pass.

Now you guys convinced me and am biting the bullet! Just requested Lamont to send me
his CAT by-pass. ray:

I'm still on the fence, I just can't decide what to do with my ST-Limited, I want to do the bypass and I will contact PitBull tomorrow for pricing per Lamont, but I hate the fact that I have to do this on a brand new bike, I'm not really having any heat issues so to speak, but the boiling fuel is hard to miss, seems like BRP should be addressing this issue instead of making the owners design or purchase aftermarket parts to fix their mistake, just my opinion