ha.ha..i like the kool-aid pic...

-J

 

I might have a friend coming out with me....but you can share a ride with me I'm sure with the PCA group. They were pretty cool about letting us take riders....although it isn't really allowed.

I will have an extra helmut.

 

hey does anyone off the top of their head know if oreilly or autozone has body touch up paint in the spray cans?? i figure if i need to redo my handles might as well do them body color

cool on the ride... will be out there about 930 ish

 

Which day are you going out there Travis? Chris pointed out that the forecast shows rain for Saturday so we may do Sunday autoX.

 

that kool aid picture wins the internet.

 

it doesnt matter to me, just let me know, i know i want to redo my handles so the rain my stall that also.... freaking weather

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenda...+USTX0901:1:US

 

lol glad the kool-aid man got a chuckle or two -

PPAT - i think my resonator has a loose piece in it - so it isn't the throwout bearing nor the cats - it appears to be a loose piece in my exhaust baffle resonator ... i'm only telling you because you offered me test pipes with the same issue lol

circled part


So..... hmm how to fix this annoyance - ugh -

 

And you were saying about your TopSpeed exhaust Mike?

 

mike i dont know if you can do anything about that, short of cutting it open.....

 

lmao eric - thanks Travis - i was thinking about taking it to a shop and have them cut it out - maybe fix it? and put it back in.... there is a cool place over in the HEB area - but i can't remember the name at the moment.


- maybe i can insert something really long in there and poke it ....

 

i have my stock setup (if hr exhaust is the same) if you need to throw it on for a bit

so i just got email from Kinetix, they are still going to make me send mine in first, and they are going to reweld it... and only replace if unrepairable. i dont think they are going to be able to weld the part up in the cannister of the cat

 

How long have you had it on the car Travis? And thank you for the offer - I'm going to suffer the noise though - I have a saw and i got a buddy with a torch - so maybe i'll just try to fix it lol

 

i ordered them on 2-14 of this year, were put on the car maybe the first week of march....so maybe six months before it started rattling.... pain in my butt

 

ugh - sorry to hear indeed -

 

So, all they're doing is rewelding the cracks and you even have to pay for shipping? I would've taken it to a local shop and gotten it welded for free (plus tip), but that's just me. That way, you save the hassle/money/time of taking the parts off the car, explain to Kinetix, ship the parts, and wait for them to reweld then send back, not to mention reinstall time. I'm all about efficiency.

Mike, you're probably going to have to cut out the resonator and weld a new one in. Again, same recommendation: take it to a local exhaust shop and let them either weld in a new resonator or put in a straight pipe.

 

Travis, I would make sure they give you a new one !

If they aren't and they are just gonna weld & fix it...then I would do what 350 is saying. Definitely a time saver.

 

they said the would replace if unrepairable, not only is it cracked along the weld, it is cracked on the canister also..... but that is not a bad idea, but i am not sure if the ceramic in the cat is broken apart or not... my initial thought is that it was and that is what was rattling, but now that i know it is cracked it may have been that

 

I am going to assume that it is unrepairable hahaha - especially after the pressure was removed from it, it is certainly going to be very broken - jk

 

yeah, i dont know if i should send to kinetix or find local shop to reweld it... guess i need to get it swapped out with factory one and decide at that time

 

Mike, to fix that you would have to cut into it. No real way around that. For my test pipe, all i would have to do is tig weld it up at the seam since it is accessible without cutting in to it. The shop that built my exhaust is in Wylie. Dude did a fantastic job and in the 2 ish years i had that exhaust i never had even one problem with any of his workmanship. Just search Rich's performance Muffler in Wylie. Owned and operated by rich who is also the exhaust fabrication/head welder at the shop. You can preview a lot of their work on his website.