hey dudes,

looking to pick your brains on a solution for this. I had my bassani exhaust installed, I am very happy with it, but there is a little bit of a design flaw here. one of the pipes runs just barely over the sway bar and at random conditions it will vibrate against it.

any suggestions of how to handle this? would heat wrapping the sway bar act well enough as a pad to cancel out the vibration? or should I be looking at a way to pull the pipe up a tiny bit higher?

 

Just cut out a little piece of cardboard and shove it in there....problem solved....maybe a little bit a chewing gum to hold it in place

 

lulz.. exhaust fail. Just take your sway bar off, you don't need it anyway

 

the sway bar will still work if I cut 3 inches out of the middle right luls

 

yep, just cut out the affected part, then weld in a "U" shaped piece to clear the "Bassani"

 

can I just use a hot glue gun?

 

Stick some washers under the swaybar bolts (might need longer bolts). I had to do that for my exhaust as well.

 

^thats weird christian i have the same exhaust... but diff sway bars... hmmmm

get hotchkis sway bars

 

My exhaust use to clunk everytime there was a bump. We can compare cars later sometime just to see if there is a change.

 

that works... because mine never did that

 

ah this may work. : )

 

OMG....look how dirty that jackstand is.......ick!

 

get real man this is serious bizness!

 

how about rubber cement

 

Negative.....but Duct Tape is fine.

 

fixed

 

That's what the JDM O-pipe is for

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main...&products_id=3

 

This is a common problem with the Bassani Setup... When I first installed mine it was perfect - No rattle - but after about 3 months it developed a rattle (at very low RPM) that every one else has complained about. Hope Bassani does something (like change the bend radius in the pipe between the resonator and the mufflers) about future Gen setups to correct the issue... Maybe they read these things... Anyway - Last week - I purchased some header wrap and intended to wrap the sway bar with it. (Cardboard and gum didn't work LOL) But I expect wrapping the sway will eliminate the rattle.

Another method is while installed mark a circle 2 " in diameter on the pipe centered on where it crossed over the sway with a sharpie - take the connector pipe back out and whack it in the circle you drew enough to reshape the pipe a little flatter through that area - that should prevent the rattle from ever coming back.

 

Just wrap a pair of your moms underwear around the pipe... no more rattle

 

I have a Stillen TD exhaust and fitment was horrible. I went to a shop and had them heat the pipes and adjust the hangers.