My exhaust is driving me nuts!

[scirocco@insanetechnology.com (Wm. Josiah Erikson)]

I have had lots of exhausts not fit right. Finally, I "fabricated" one 
myself - the one on my Rabbit right now works perfectly. I had a local 
speed shop make me a really nice 2-into-1 downpipe that empties out into 
2". Then I got a generic flexy pipe (a nice one, not one of those crappy 
Autozone repair-it-yourself exhaust pieces), then ran that into a piece of 
pipe that I had an exhaust shop make for me for $10, then into a length of 
straight 2", then into another pipe (the over-the-axle one) that I had an 
exhaust shop make me, looking at the stock exahust, for $20, then into a 
cheap $20 muffler. It performs well, fits right, doesn't hit anything, and 
was CHEAP. It even sounds kinda good, and doesn't leak even though I've 
neglected to put clamps on it in most places. What's the point of this 
story? Well, I had to cut the $20 over-the-axle piece in half and stuff 
some pipe in between to make it fit right, even though it measured out 
precisely like the stock unit. Exhausts are a PITA and I've usually had to 
modify them slightly. I even had to modify the stock OEM exhaust I got 
from Adirondack to go on my '86 Scirocco - and I wasn't even trying to do 
anything funny with it. Play with it - you can make it fit right.
	-Josiah



On Wed, 1 May 2002, Josh Hignight wrote:

> I spent 2 freakin' hours last night crawled up under my car trying to find
> the source of a horrid rattle/vibration noise coming from my exhaust. And of
> course, it's still there. 
> 
> I did notice that one of the hangers for my TT exhaust is broken. This could
> be the cause, but I can't tell where it's rubbing because it only rattles
> when I'm driving, it won't do it when I'm sitting still and revving. 
> 
> I was whacking on case of my Flowmaster pretty hard right after I got it to
> try and get things fit better. Could I have knocked something loose on the
> inside of it? 
> 
> Also, it seems like the exhaust itself doesn't really fit right... anyone
> else had a problem with this before? The piping in the tunnel is situated
> too far to the left (where I think it's really rubbing cause it's so close
> to the heat shield), but the muffler sits too far to the right side (causing
> the place that installed the exhaust to bend my rear valence to make room
> for the tailpipe!).  
> 
> Thinking about buying another exhaust just so I can have a correctly fitting
> one, right after spending $200 on this one from TT, pisses me off...
> 
> Joshua Hignight
> Student Services/Technical Services
> New Mexico Campus
> (505) 821-4800
> 
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