Alright.. I just took off my old exhaust and put on my brand new RS*R ExMag. It's my first time installing an exhaust so it took me a little while, but I'm done and it sounds really good & I actually felt some power gain, which I wasn't expecting since it's chambered.

There are two things I noticed when I took it for a ride though... 1. It smells like something is burning.. I'm guessing this might be normal because all the material inside the pipes are just burning away? & 2. My shifter or shift linkage is touching the pipe a little. It's not too bad, but enough to slightly vibrate my shifter when I rev. What should I do??

 

the smell is normal...changed 2 exhausts this summer and it happen to both cars, it goes away! no biggie! and if anything is slightly touching find it and fix it dont take chances!

 

Hey AlxSiR7 I think I saw your car yesturday on rt. 13, if so nice car

 

hey cool, i was going ot get that same setup but i didnt know if i can run it on stock header or not? are you on stock header? and also is your car vtec or no cuz mine's not and i dont think they made it for non vtec cars.

 

The smell is the burning from new metal. And you can stop the vibration of the shifter by lowering the exhaust a little with new hangers, or you can bend them down somehow.

 

oh ok.. thanks man, um new hangers, huh? i might just got to acura and see if they have any longer ones available.. maybe for a different car. and yea, that burning smell went away already! only after about 10 min of driving.

ricerwannab, yea that probably was me.. i go to wilmington college and i work on 13, so i'm always around that area.

 

happend to me with my skunk2 exhaust... but mine smelled like waffles lol it lasted like 1 week and a half till i noticed the smell was gone.

 

yea dude ur straight with the smell all exhaust systems stink like a motha wen u first put them on.. just like headers and header wraps.. and for the vibration my friend has a civic and his did that 2.. i told him to bend the hangers so it would move the exhaust away. he never did and it styll vibrates and wen u move it to the right it hits the exhaust and pings.. he has had it liek that for 3 months now and its fine so no rush just do it, dont be lazy like him... goodluck

 

i had to unhook one of teh hangers on my exhaust on my old civic to prevent this...worked fine after that..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AlxSiR7 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">oh ok.. thanks man, um new hangers, huh? i might just got to acura and see if they have any longer ones available.. maybe for a different car. and yea, that burning smell went away already! only after about 10 min of driving.

ricerwannab, yea that probably was me.. i go to wilmington college and i work on 13, so i'm always around that area. </TD></TR></TABLE>

you can't just change your hangers with common tools.. take it to an exhaust shop and have them weld it for you.

 

i was talking about the rubber pieces...

 

I got a longer hanger, but no good... I guess I can go buy enough longer ones to do the entire exhaust system or I can bend the hangers. I called RS*R and they said it was because I have the skunk2 short shifter.. oh well.

 

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Take it to a muffler shop, and have them modify the metal hanger on the exhaust, not the rubber ones.

edit: did this to my skunk2 shifter and now its all good.

 

yeah, looks like thats what i have to do. i wonder much it's gonna run me..

 

ok, so I fixed the problem & I figured I'd post to let everyone know what I did. Turns out it was because of my Skunk2 shifter.. it sits kinda low and was hitting the straight pipe. So I went under the car and saw that there were different hangers for the muffler, so I just moved the rubber hangers onto the lower ones and now it doesn't vibrate the shifter anymore! Sine the entire exhaust system is pretty tight, it didn't help to just take off the striaght pipe hangers because the muffler still held it up pretty well, but as soon as I brought the muffler down everything tilted down a little.. just enough to make room for the shifter.