so me and a buddy of my mine w/ a Z were backroading hardcore like a week ago and when we stopped in a parking lot to go our seperate ways and say later .... i hear my car start making loud sounds (kinda like when you turn off your car and you can hear your exhaust cooling, but a lot louder) sure enough on my drive home it was loud as hell and sounded like a broken lawn mower

next day(s) it started to get louder and louder like a loudass broken lawnmower!

i took it into jiffy lube where my buddy works and i went under to look at it and we found that the megan downpipes where the pipes weld were it connects the resonater cracked almost all the way around! only like 1 cm or so was holding it!!

the pipes were SOOOO loud on my car i could barley take it over 3K without it being hearable 350 miles away... haha

good thing i have a good family mechanic friend of ours who welded it up for me...

the pipes dont sound that bad at all but a broken weld?? uke:

 

You get what you pay for... heh

 

wow

wouldn't want that to happen to their headers.

 

thats what happens when your car is sponsored by "MEGAN RACING"
wtf is megan racing? is it an ebay only brand?

 

A lot of people have ones that are holding up pretty well.

 

Basically

 

That's not an accurete statement, as these failures have been documented on many exhausts. Including Nismo, Injen, RS-R, Tanabe, HKS, etc... just search.

When exhaust components break at flange, 99.9% they have been installed wrong and they where carying load and flex. This seems like an isolated case.

 

i dont understand how you could install a testpipe wrong? not much to it that you could screw up

 

if they carry load(from the exhaust) than they are installed wrong, it's simple. You have to make sure that exhaust carries weight, not test pipes. stock cats have a hanger, test pipes do not have a hanger. Problem gets even worse with exhausts without flex pipes as testpipes(cats) will have to endure even more flex and weight. Do you have a flex pipe on your exhaust?

 

I believe Megan started off by knocking off Mugen. Cheap parts

 

yep the gruppe s ypipe has 2 flex portions on the y's

 

Did you have any rasp before you cracked them? I'm 18 and pay for both my payment and insurance on my Z, I need relatively cheap mods and would like to order these if they aren't raspy.

 

Gosh...... not this I am 18 years old and pay for everything again.... What is the point of telling us your age and your ability to pay? All you need to say is I need an alternative to expensive mods.... and etc... Peace.

 

LOL. Maybe it is part of his "signature?"

 

Yea, this is a board full of knowledge and all, but some of you guys are dicks. I'd appreciate a straight answer from anyone who doesn't have their head stuck up their ***, oh? and what a thought, an answer thats ON TOPIC?

 

two questions :
1- Are they raspy?
2- Any risk at having them without hanger? other cases of cracking?

peace

 

Not very raspy at all and this is the first I head of them cracking. To be safe you could keep the stock bracket on and have something welded to the pipes, to remove stress from them.

 

And telling us you are 18 years old and pay for car payments and insurance is on topic??? LOL That was a good laugh

 

im 13!

 

You forgot to say you pay for everything!!!!