Should the exhaust hang this low??

Post by **cheshire190e** » 28 Sep 2008 01:19 pm

Hi everyone, My car has been lowered and is on 13's but my exhaust still hangs ridiculously low in my opinion.

does the exhaust normally hang this low from the bottom of the car? its all connected up properly and its a pain because i have just moved house into the middle of speedbump city and it scrapes really badly.

is there anything i can do to raise it higher? as you can see the back of the mid box is around 1" from the ground

Cheers

Matt

Post by **filthyjohn** » 28 Sep 2008 02:42 pm

That looks almost right tbh, they're always a pain to get hanging right. You could try putting smaller rubber rings on the mounts behind the mid box there. That should pull it up a bit, along with making sure the rubbers further back in the system are the right ones and in good nick. Careful how much you lift the mid box though, don't want it bouncing off the propshaft spinning at 6k rpm!

Post by **redline** » 29 Sep 2008 05:15 pm

I was goping to say , just be careful lifting the system too far ,
its a thin line between the exhaust scraping speedbumps and bouncing off the underside and running gear

Post by **cheshire190e** » 30 Sep 2008 03:52 pm

right, i have replaced all the rubbers and the exhaust is hanging a little higer now, i inspected it and its the back of the mid box that is catching.

I was wondering could i just get a straight piece of pipe and remove the mid box. obviously it will require some joining up, just this way there would be more clearance from the ground and more from the prop.

i just don't want it to be really loud, i would have thought with the back box still there it should be ok.

what you guys think?

matt

Post by **Chris_C** » 30 Sep 2008 07:08 pm

Backbox does most of the quieting on a 1.7, the mid is a "straight through with holes around the outside" (non baffled). It'll be a bit more throaty, but I've run mine on just the mid before, and that's veryvery noisy compared.

Post by **SteveP** » 30 Sep 2008 07:14 pm

I reckon it'd be pretty damn loud without the middle box :S

Post by **cheshire190e** » 30 Sep 2008 09:54 pm

yeh i have run mine before with just the mid box but was really noisey, i thought the back box did most the work and would just make a slight difference??

Post by **stuartB** » 15 Oct 2008 11:23 am

Its a different car, but...

I dont have a midbox, and its f'in loud. My backbox is one of them straight thru no baffles jobbies.

tried it with the exhaust completely removed once, sounds like a messershmit (or however you spell it). if it wasnt for the lack of power I'd drive it like that all the time

My mate has a 1.7 that he did a side exit on - on the 340's theres lots more space for this - where my petrol tank is, you have a massive great gap. I think he got a smaller / different backbox, and tucked it up in this gap. if anything hits speedbumps, its just pipe.

looks like your clamp is in danger of being ripped off too :$

Post by **cheshire190e** » 15 Oct 2008 01:17 pm

i have chopped the midbox out and put a straight piece of pipe in its place, also i have bent the hangers upwards a little. it now hangs much lower and still chinks the bumps but its only on pipe so im just going to leave it.

cheers for the info