Any ideas on getting a bit of downpipe / prop shaft clearance

This downpipe fitted my s3 perfectly. I have undone the downpipe to ensure it is rotated as much as possible 1mm movement.
Are the engine mounts different? Eg length of dog bone? (As I fitted my S3 dogbone mount with its yellow power flex upgrades) I think if the dog bone was 5mm longer that would bring the downpipe down to clear. Or I remove downpipe and lengthen the holes?

Thanks

What about?

1. I changed the thiming belt the engine mounts have a tiny bit of movement - could this be the difference?
Or
2. Chinese hotside incorrectly located studs?

Made a bad assumption in the hot side. Its the manifold which determines the position of the downpipe via the hot side so not sure where the CHRA is involved?

I will have a look at the mounts I maybe able to slightly twist the engine, moving the engine towards the bulk head tilt it enough.

Aftermarket dogbones are for S3 and TT but I will give it a check. Just in case it is a tiny difference.

The pipe is too high, moving across the drivers side will hit the other side of the channel. It needs to move down like rotate to 7:30pm instead of 8pm ( if you know what I mean,) although I could rip off the heat sheild if need be.


To try and manipulate the engine a tiny bit.
1. I've soaked the passengers mounts with wd40 and will continue all week, these are famous for snapping as never being touched unlike timing belt side,

2. my neighbour is making me a 4mm spacer / shim for the dog bone it helps a tiny bit but the prop shaft moves with it too, so there's a sweet spot

3. I am taking the downpipe off the turbo and going too try to slot the holes whilst still floating around in the wheel arch to position it perfectly. Rather annoyingly the locking nuts simply undid the studs from the turbo.

What I did notice in the red charge pipe tiny silver flecks? Too small to pick up I should have tried to photo them. But I would like to know where they came from. Obviously, I've only driven 4 miles up to ~3k rpm just when the turbo started coming in. The compressor span freely so pretty unsure of the source of these.

One thing s3 versus tt regarding engine fitment which may impact this is, it's really difficult to fit the top thinking cover on the TT without breaking it on the s3 you just wiggled it down the TT doesn't have the same amount of space, and that's not just me.

thanks well we will see how it can be improved - thats the problem with changing so many things in one go.

now I just need to grow the balls to redo up the timing engine mounts. I think the slotting of the downpipe and the spacer will do the trick and will post up the pics.

I couldn't leave it, it will either knock off the balance or go through the flexi-pipe.

Fitted this and adjusted the engine mounts to twist the engine, apparently ttshop regularly fits a dog bone spacer with 3 inch downpipe. This is 4mm but I reckon 6mm might be better, I used 60mm bolts.

Thanks Bill, well it's not rubbing at the moment.
At MOT place for today and tomorrow.
I'm hoping they pass it, these Mark 1 TTs are such a lovely car, i want to start driving it soon.