I bought the exhaust in my sig off a member here. Really liked it alot, but then one day the exhaust cracked around the backside of the resonator. So I took it to a muffler shop and got them to re-weld it. I done this 3 more times because it kept cracking futher and futher up. Extremely thin metal around the resonator. Well my muffler guy decides he will solve the problem by putting a flex pipe on the backside of the resonator so it has more movement and won't be so prone to crack. Well that worked fine but it eventually cracked too. So today I call Tanabe USA. I didn't tell them I put a flex pipe on it, but I did say I re-welded it about 4 times. Now since I "modified" it, they won't cover it. After arguing with the guy I just hung up. So question is does anybody know where I can get just the pipe that has the resonator on it? Please don't ask me why it cracked because me and the muffler guy are stumped on this. I asked the guy at Tanabe if I could just purchase the pipe but he said no because it comes as one unit. I go so now I basically just throw a 800 dollar exhaust in the trash, he goes well don't do that and I said then sell me a ****in mid pipe. Sir I can't do that I've done explained this. That's when I hung up.

 

I would not throw more good money after bad. Get a cat-back exhaust, and be done with it.

 

just have the muffler shop make u a new midpipe with a resonator

 

After looking around for different options, this seems to be the only option. I think I'm just going to do it myself. I'm not going to put a resonator in it. I don't think it would be to loud being that the tanaba exhaust isn't a straight through design. If I made it just a straight pipe the weight savings would be huge also.

 

Yes... unfortunately you didn't follow tanabe's standard operating procedure. It's a stupid policy but it's not that uncommon to hear a story like that.

Good luck getting it all fixed...

 

you know, the other parts you have could have caused the exhaust to crack because usually tanabe has pretty good r&d. They test everything to factory standards