Lowered Car Exhaust Clearance
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OnyxCobra
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I only have once and it was a hell of an angle.
Really? Damn I scrape everywhere and last night I was leaving Taco Johns and it was snowing out and I couldn't see very well and I caught the edge of something and where the mid-pipe meets the cat-back got ripped off.
What's your exhaust?
What's your exhaust?
ttocs
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it depends on where you live and how things are made. I just moved from pheonix and they like to make their speed bumps big enough that my stock car rubbed no matter how slowly I went over it. The roads were designed to help with the sudden downpours the desert gets and the roads have a little more of an angle on them to allow for run off. Because of this there were spots where I could not make right hand turns with out scrapping the body/sideskirts just infront of the passenger rear wheel and again this was not with a lowered vehicle. Now moving back to indiana I have not had a single issue.
OnyxCobra
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I had shorties and a mac pro chamber, which i hear hangs lower than most midpipes. I haven't driven with the new setup yet as the car is still under construction. That being said i don't take my car over speed bumps and i don't go where i know it might have a problem. Part of having a lowered car is just driving smart, do you know what i am saying?
Win
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I scrape only on the long speed humps that are drawn out. But i always bottom out and scrape going into and out of my driveway.
Do you have a map of where every speed bump is? Sometimes shit happens no matter how careful you drive.OnyxCobra said:
Win said:
Ya same here I don't scrape on the little ones but I only scrape when I backing out of my garage.
OnyxCobra
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switch96 said:
LMFAO yes! I was so hoping someone would pick up on that lolol.
97ponygt said:
Yes i do, it's in my head. RARELY do i ever take my car somewhere that I haven't been before so I usually know what to expect... It's not like they put speed bumps in the middle of main roads and stuff anyways, I'd really have to go out of my way to hit some 99% of the time.
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I was forced to drive to work with ice still on the side streets... My poor exhaust sounded like it was shoveling the road. Several spots i could feel my tranny lift a little bit because the ice was pushing up on my exhaust.. Not a great feeling.
OnyxCobra said:
Well around where I live there are speed bumps everywhere and I didn't even f up the exhaust on a speed bump it was like this weird concrete creation thing right as your leaving the drive-thru at taco johns (first time I had ever been through this one) and it happened in a city in which I don't even live in.
OnyxCobra
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well that's some bad luck then man. That just goes with the territory i guess. If you live in an area with that many speed bumps you probably shouldn't have a lowered vehicle, even though that sucks.
MustangChris
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Paul said:
move it back Paul, i was just about to talk about the compounds that exhaust plumbing is made from, ideal curve angles for the plumbing and prefered pavement materials to drive on.
also, proper tire-inflation specs for maximized ride height while on the street vs. track vs. strip.
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MustangChris
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oh. you losen them first? thats waht i was doing wrong. if this would have been in the tech forum, we would have gotten that kind of information much sooner 
