1BadGoat said:
Food for thought. I recently put a SLP system on my car and I noticed how close even the stock exhaust is to the drive shaft dampener. If the exhaust rubs on it, then it could create a rubbing sound that would sound just like a tire rubbing in your wheelwell.. Have your dealer check your exhaust alignment, 1 bent hanger is all that it would take...
Exactly right. My 2005 has rubber all over the pipe where the rubber D/S coupler is hitting the pipe. I have gotten the cacophany of thumping and banging down to a mere annoyance by replacing the OEM elastic hangers with some much stiffer aftermarket hangers from the local discount auto parts store. They fit the pins far better than the OEM hangers did and they located the tail pipes with perfect concentricity in the rear fascia.
The coupler used to get into the pipe and throw it up into the floor pan whenever it got a good bite on it. After putting the stiffer hangers on it, the pipe stopped hitting the floor, and it doesn't bang into the floor when I hit a bump anymore, but the pipe and the coupler are still dating, apparently. I put a pry bar on the right pipe and got maybe 1/8" out of that, but the pipe will need a heat wrench applied to get the 1/2" it will take to keep the pipe and the coupler apart.
Is it just me, or does it look to anyone else like they hired someone whose only tool is a 48-oz hammer to fabricate the exhaust? It looks like they took my right pipe down to less than 1.5" by hammering in reliefs for the coupler and the control arm hanger rather than routing or shaping the pipe correctly.
I also have some sort of coupler in the right pipe behind the catcon and ahead of the crossover/resonator/whatever-it-is. It looks like it's made of cast steel and weighs about ten pounds. It looks like something you'd use to couple sewer pipes together. Anyone else have that 'feature'? I think is is causing my right pipe to oscillate, which gets it and the coupler together. Think of a stout rubber band with a lug nut tied in the middle and held taughtly at each end. Now shake it. That is what it is doing to that pipe. It looks like they screwed up a bend and instead of welding up the mistake they put this monster adapter on the pipe.
The workmanship on my exhaust system is so crappy that if Paul Sr. saw Mikey putting it on a bike he'd punch him right in the mouth.