My new exhaust

[custom Lftback]

lilredrocket, did you get my PM?

[schleppy]

Any video yet?

[lilredrocket]

Just picked up the right cable today about to go make a video

[lilredrocket]

Sorry to everyone that's wanting to hear this but had trouble trying to load the video on my computer last night. I will try again once I get off work

[Sabretooth]

Any updates for vids?

[lilredrocket]

Yea my bad have been busy lately and flacked on you guys sorry. I only work half day today so I will get a video and load it up

[Sabretooth]

sweet!, cant wait

[MUSKOKA800]

Can't wait to hear the video.
It sure looks like a "Noise Violation" waiting to be issued.

[lilredrocket]

Its not that bad. In every gear there is a sweet spot were you can barely hear it

[lilredrocket]

Custom Lftback and the guys from NST got to hear it this past weekend

[SaerinRhoe]

Hello, my name is S.R. and I'm a copycat.

I had this done a couple of weeks ago after hearing and driving LRR's car. I love the sound of it and it hasn't affected my mpg that much, however, it definitely encourages harder launches from red lights and heaven forbid I find an overpass to cruise under.

There's one minor detail that I hadn't thought of though and I found out about it yesterday afternoon when I painted the pipe with high heat black paint. The pipe is melting part of my back bumper. There's a half-circle just above the pipe that's melted off and dripped into a nice black blob on top of the exhaust pipe.

I'm not happy about that but I figure that I'll look for something to fix it with, maybe a piece of diamond plate or something cut to dress up the melted edge of the plastic. I'm not sure what I'll do yet but it needs to be fixed before it gets worse and with air temps aiming for 103* by the middle of the week it's bound to get worse.

S.R.

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by SaerinRhoe

Hello, my name is S.R. and I'm a copycat.

I had this done a couple of weeks ago after hearing and driving LRR's car. I love the sound of it and it hasn't affected my mpg that much, however, it definitely encourages harder launches from red lights and heaven forbid I find an overpass to cruise under.

There's one minor detail that I hadn't thought of though and I found out about it yesterday afternoon when I painted the pipe with high heat black paint. The pipe is melting part of my back bumper. There's a half-circle just above the pipe that's melted off and dripped into a nice black blob on top of the exhaust pipe.

I'm not happy about that but I figure that I'll look for something to fix it with, maybe a piece of diamond plate or something cut to dress up the melted edge of the plastic. I'm not sure what I'll do yet but it needs to be fixed before it gets worse and with air temps aiming for 103* by the middle of the week it's bound to get worse.

S.R.

1. how close is the pipe to the bumper?
2. does the pipe protrude past the bumper?

[Tamago]

here's what it sounds like from the outside

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C8X2...e=channel_page

[SaerinRhoe]

Ok, here's a couple of pictures that I just took with my cell phone out in the parking lot. When the pipe was first put on it and the car was still up on the rack, it looked like there would be about an inch of clearance between the underside edge of bumper and the pipe but now I can clearly see this isn't the case.

The pipe is actually touching the bumper and the bumper extends past the edge of the pipe 3-4 inches. The melting did not occur at the end of the exhaust tip but about 6 inches back from the tip where the edge of bumper rests against the pipe.

I know I'm probably repeating myself but that's a bad habit of mine. :)







From what I can see there doesn't appear to be any damage/melting/bubbling of the paint where the exhaust tip rests below the bumper. This could change though as air temp climbs in the coming months so I'll definitely have to keep an eye on it.

Maybe I can find a nice piece of black diamond plate to put back there on the bottom edge of the bumper that will act like a heat guard or something.

S.R.

[CASTREX]

Wow! they did a really crappy job on your muffler delete.

The melted bumper is beyond repair. So You can trim it to remove the melted area and increase the clearance...

The bend over the axle doesn't look good either. If you were to lower your car or in full compression situations it looks like the axle would hit the pipe.

[Tamago]

Originally Posted by CASTREX

The bend over the axle doesn't look good either. If you were to lower your car or in full compression situations it looks like the axle would hit the pipe.

what pic shows the axle?

[CASTREX]

This is what I meant... it looks a little close to me.

[SaerinRhoe]

Thanks for the replies :) I do appreciate them.

Castrex, that's the factory bend over the axle. When the car was up on the lift I pointed to where I wanted him to cut the pipe and he cut it about 3" away from the muffler (towards the front of the car). I've got the muffler at the house so I can post pictures of it tonight when I get home from work.

I'll go out to the car in a few minutes and see if I can get some better pictures with my phone from the side to show the angle and length of the pipe and the bend over the axle. If I can find a ruler or something to measure with, I'll use that in the picture as well as a reference point.

S.R.