anyone mounted a rear lip on a coupe with apexi n1 exhaust?? i just paid good money to get mine mounted and painted. and i drove to work today, and the exhaust melted the dam thing right off the car. the only way to drop the exhaust anymore is to make a bracket for it. but its already prety low, cause ive got koni coilovers dropped right down. any help or suggestions??

 

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take the lip off

 

I would lift the car up a little and bend the exhaust down, or cut some of the exhaust pipe off and reweld it so that the tip sits rite behind the lip

 

fab up a sheet metal sheild for it....i've seen it on a couple cars and when done right it looks good

 

i had that problem. heated the pipe and bent it down. works great now

 

Stick something in the rubber hangers that will drop it down the desired amount. Problem solved--cheap, easy, and effective. Worked for me when my N1 burned my rear bumper on the old Civic.

 

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I did this exact same thing using bushings I found at work. Ghetto but it has worked for two years and no problems.

 

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Holy mesmerizing avatar! I also had mine in for about two years before I got rid of the exhaust. Had zero problems with the seutp. I used pieces of hard teflon (secured with zip-ties), but I've read of others using PVC piping, wood , and bushings, in your case. Whatever works.

 

As long as its not touching you should be fine. Just bend it down a bit.

 

Does anybody know the minimum clearance for an exhuast? Is one finger width a good distance. I just installed my cat-back today and was wondering how far from the bumper it should be. I currently have one finger width between my exhuast and bumper. Is there a general rule of thumb distance?

 

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A finger gap is fine. When I had a local shop do my custom exhaust when I was turbocharged, the tech only left about a pen's gap between the tip and the bumper. The two never touched, but I constantly checked on it. I had them redo it when I changed the muffler style and specifically told the guy to leave about 1/4-1/2" clearance this time around.

 

What about actually under the car? Right where the exhuast bends up then down over the rear control arm it is really close. I would say around 1/4in. Does the pipe really get that hot that far back from the engine? I can see the exhaust, because it slows and traps the hot gases. But the pipe is free flowing. Should I be worried about the under body heating up?

 

You should be okay although where it goes over the control arms seems kind of close. On all of the exhausts I had on my EJ8, the piping over the LCA had a pretty good amount of clearance. If it's been like this for awhile w/o problems, though, you probably won't have to worry too much.