I found a cracked valveguide that has been hanging out in the Cat ever since I bent the valves 50,000 miles ago at a roadcourse event I guess that explains my rattle problem.

I replaced the cat with a T1R resonated testpipe and the car sounds great once again

-Larkin who is enjoying a quiet car again


Modified by Larkin W. at 12:39 PM 8/4/2006

 

my carsound took a crap awhile back too, but I was able to just remove half of the honeycomb stuff and the rattles were gone.

<<< who is now temporarily running side pipe exhaust with no cat, resonator, or mufflers and damn I need to fix that lol

 

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Mine actually had cracked across most of the welds at the flange and thus was leaking, making the car loud and smelly. Finding the valve guide was just wierd. I never even thought something like that would break in that case

I originally thought I my exhaust leak was from the Spoon header, but its actually fine. If anyone wants a spoon header with minor dents on the bottom ($350 shipped), let me know. I'm looking at getting something with better ground clearance now that I'm lowered.

 

I am quite happy with my T1R testpipe . My bumper is a little blacker though

 

I have a brand new T1R test pipe if anyone is interested

 

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I wish I would've known that I had to drive around with the cracked High flow cat for 3 weeks waiting on a backorder from A&J

 

yeah. my carsound failed me .. and i just hollowed it out