well i knew ole "Junky" had an exhaust leak.. i thought it was very minor cause it didn't make any loud noises just a whizzing sound.. not loud at all either..

 

well i got to drivin into town saturday, and i heard a clunk, and the rumble.. it suddenly sounded like my RX with straight pipes..

 

so i get down to a place where i can pull off, i crawl under it and see that the center pipe fell off.. guess the leak was a bit more serious than i thought.. it broke off right behind the flange where it bolts to the y-pipe..

 

so i drive into town, tryin not to stirr up the cops.. i get to the muffler shop and get a new one ripped in me for $254 and some change.. but they had to order the pipe.. so i gotta take it in wednesday..

 

anyways on my way home, i stirred up ole smokey.. he comes up says, you got a loud muffler don't ya son? i say no, infact there is no muffler "jokingly" and hand him the paper from the shop that has non-refundable deposit stamped on it, and a date of when its going to get fixed.. he looks at it and tell me, well just try not to make too much noise in town.. i nodded and drove off..

 

so anyways, little "Junky" is going to get a new exhaust put on it wednesday..

 

i tried to get the guy to make me a pipe with a universal cat and straight pipe out the back, but he said that was against virginia state law.. so he's just replacing the center pipe/cat with a OE one.. i'll do the straight pipe and no muffler out the back myself..

hm.

 

in my hatch, for a while now (a week and a half?) I've basically had turn downs from the heads. And that was it.

 

The neighbors are complaining and my dad isn't happy, but this new exhaust I'm making, I sure hope it works this time.

 

I tried 2" back to cherry bombs. way too loud.

 

I tried 3 feet of 2"OD flex pipe from each side. worked better, but the tube fell out of one side.

 

now, I'm going for 6' of tube on each side, a specially designed Y pipe, which slip fits over my old catalytic converter. Then I'm putting my old Y pipe cat after that, and making it go back to duals.

 

my old Y pipe had some problems but I sealed them up with putty and now I'm gonna use it to my advantage. I *may* put in a muffler between the cat and the Y cat.