Larini Exhaust Fitting Question!

[Vipers1]

After having my Larini Sports cat and Race back box sitting in my garage for the last 2 months I've been to a local garage to see about getting it all fitted to my 2006 Sport Racer, I'm not very mechanical, I thought I'd give Lotus a miss on this one and get a small local garage to fit it. I told him I'd put a post up to see if there is anything he needs to look out for, is it just a case of removing the bottom tray and everyhing should become straight forward from there, or is that just wishful thinking, Also he was wondering if anyone could give him any idea of how much time to allow?
Thanks,
Paul.

[jamesG20]

Not sure why no-one has replied to this...
Bit of a can of worms this one, you might want to join www.seloc.org and do a search, fitting could take some time to get right. I would be on the blower to larini to get some definitive instructions before you start.

[kevin ritson]

Can only speak of my own experience but found it easy to fit. Only issue was unbolting the original unit.

May be because I was fitting it on my own so bolted the pipe in place first, then the silencer unit, then the tail pipes. Doing it methodically could be the key.

[chrisstringer]

Don't know if you've seen it but Janitor wrote an excellent fitting guide somewhere on here, complete with pictures. (Just do a search). Admittedly it was for a 2bular system, but surely the Larini can't be too different.

HTH

[Paul RN]

chrisstringer said:

...but surely the Larini can't be too different.

HTH

Errr you should see the posts on SELOC about the fitting of them. There seems to be some kind of knack, they certainly don't seem easy to fit straight. Theres debates between Lotus Specialists giving one view on fitting and Larini themselves posting up. A lot of it might well be hot air, but its strange how it seems to come up quite a lot at the moment.

[kevin ritson]

Something always comes up after a bulk buy. In their defence they have offered to help in all cases and have fitted a couple of exhausts for free. Not surprising as I found them very helpful when ordering and checking on delivery dates.

I'd happily deal with them again and after 2 years I still haven't tired of the product

[Vipers1]

Thanks for the replys, I'll let you know how it goes as I took it in to the garage today for him to fit tommorrow, I rang my local Lotus dealer out of interest and they allow 2.1 hours for fitting a new exhaust, that would be charged at £252 + vat, OUCH, so hopefully the garage who are fitting it charge £45 per hour, so hopefully it'll be a little cheaper. Just had a thought driving home, the race system tailpipes are 2.5 inches, I just hope they fit thru the existing holes ok in the under tray, I guess I'll find out tommorrow, fingers crossed.

[Vipers1]

Well That all went smoother than I thought. I half expected a call this morning to say there was a problem, but the first I heard was when it was all done. Apparently it all went really well, took about 2 hours and I only had to pay £90 for cash, far cheaper than Lotus's £300. As for the sound, well what can I say, it is amazing, totally transforms the car, trouble is it kinda makes you drive like a hooligan as all I want to do is accelarate all the time, the noise it makes when the engine changes cam is truly stunning with a good bit of popping and banging when lifting off I don't know if all Larini systems sound this good, but I have to say the Race system is by far the best aftermarket exhaust I've bought, and I've had a few, and this is with the silencer pipe still on, I can't imagine how loud it must be straight thru, maybe I'll try that next year to sum up I think all sport cars should have Larini's fitted as standard as this is how sports cars should sound

[kevin ritson]

Glad you like it, it's certainly the King of Exhausts

[21TonyK]

Mines been on for a couple of hundred miles but already it's starting to sound fantastic. Bit too load at the moment though so the cats going back on once I clear enough room in the garage to work!