- Dec 4, 2011
- 597
Yeah so I was driving today, and I noticed under light throttle, the exhaust was making a higher-pitched and muffled sound. I thought either the cat or muffler was partially clogged up or something, but I just had it inspected the week prior, so I wasn't totally sure. I have a flosound muffler with stainless tip, and I usually have exhaust drone at highway speeds, but there was none. Also, it felt like the RPM's were running a bit lower, and that the engine was more responsive with my throttle input. The shifts also seemed quicker, leading me to think that there was a higher buildup of backpressure.
So I go down a bumpy road to see if I can hear anything rattling, and as I'm going down it, I hear the exhaust fall out and dragging on the road. So I pull over, and exhaust pipe is broken off just before the tip on the rear hanger. Apparently the metal piping they used when they installed my exhaust was very weak compared with the OEM piping, since they used this as an extender for my exhaust tip. So basically it just sounds louder, and has a weird sound under light throttle loads. I'm debating whether to just leave it like so, get a new tip installed, or if I need to just opt for a whole new stainless-back exhaust and maybe just straight pipe it... or just put a better muffler on it.
Any suggestions? I mean its the I6, so sometimes I cringe when I hear someone drive away with it, but I really just don't feel like getting rid of it just yet. ugh
This shows the piece of extender pipe that was installed to fit inside the OEM piping and tip, apparently it was a cheap piece of crap:
So I go down a bumpy road to see if I can hear anything rattling, and as I'm going down it, I hear the exhaust fall out and dragging on the road. So I pull over, and exhaust pipe is broken off just before the tip on the rear hanger. Apparently the metal piping they used when they installed my exhaust was very weak compared with the OEM piping, since they used this as an extender for my exhaust tip. So basically it just sounds louder, and has a weird sound under light throttle loads. I'm debating whether to just leave it like so, get a new tip installed, or if I need to just opt for a whole new stainless-back exhaust and maybe just straight pipe it... or just put a better muffler on it.
Any suggestions? I mean its the I6, so sometimes I cringe when I hear someone drive away with it, but I really just don't feel like getting rid of it just yet. ugh



This shows the piece of extender pipe that was installed to fit inside the OEM piping and tip, apparently it was a cheap piece of crap:

