Exhaust Scraping Question

[Chris Liesch]

Hey guys I just installed a Flowmaster catback on my car. The vehicle was lowerd about 1.5 inches and the new pipes are a little larger than then the stock ones. The pipes look and sound badass. My question is do they sell smaller rubber hangers to move the exhaust up a little? The exhaust was put in with stock hangers in stock location. Does anyone have any tricks to help or does everyone just scrape? :cool2:

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[FirstWorldProblems]

 

[Logan@DeansPerformance]

i dk if i would ever drive your mustang on the street with the exhaust THAT low!

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

must be careful lol. try and keep right header in groove of the road where tires normally are.

 

[Chris Liesch]

Holy crap!!!! Mine is not that low. You must scrape all the time. Do they sell smaller rubber hangers to move it up a little?

 

[03lightning]

wow haha chris it looks like you just got called out haha yours is low but daaaang he has you beat considerably

 

[03lightning]

someone might sell them but honestly I would be a little skeptical about using one just because you are wicked close to the rearend already...if you brought it in much more I would be worried about bouncing on that all day

 

[SonicBoost]

Damn. And I thought mine was low.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Not going to lie i've scraped that one up a little bit, it's a kooks custom header which BLOWS because it'll be expensive, but one day i'll have a different one made for the passenger side. Normally it's just minor scrapes that I can avoid but the other day I pulled through a gas station that didn't have the lights on and clipped one of those metal caps, haven't really looked to see if it fucked it up good or not, made a noise but i didn't feel a bump so it can't be that bad.

You'll be fine, just drive very careful.

 

[s4rge]

Mine scrap and im still stock height. Your stock hangers might be wored out like mine was (pictures below of the results) . What you can do is stop by your local NAPA and buy some new hangers. I believe they sell them for $5 something each. Its better than ordering online and waiting for the USPS man.

Reason:
1. Shop did some bad welding on the rear part of my mac catback
2. My hangers were shot.

Caution: the following picture are mind blowing. The exhaust is hanging like a noob installed it. But, my hangers was shot and i was semi-new so i said F-IT and installed it anyway. Potholes and dips was owning my poor 4x4

How i fixed my problems.

1. Brought new hangers.
2. Removed the midpipe than reinstalled but only finger tightening the bolts
3. After finger tightening get a floor jack and jack up the exhaust abit than start tightening up the exhaust system.

I had 235235 exhaust combos on my car and the one i had problems with was the o/r prochamber.. that box would scrap everything.

 

[01Cobra]

The routing of exhaust was a true afterthought on these cars.

 

[WhtSuperStang]

look like my car