Just picked up this used RS*R, so tell me if i'm right... it will have to be cut shorter and the flange welded back on, and the bolt holes in the flange will have to be widened/moved? Which bolt holes should be widened? Those on the exhaust or the CAT? Anything i'm missing? Wanna make sure i know what i'm doing.

How much do muffler shops generally charge to do this work? I want to do it myself but don't have the right tools, and the crappy muffler that the previous muffler had put on has extra hangers welded on in odd places/orientations that will have to be cut off.


Lastly, any suggestoins for cleaning/polishing the muffler and tip??

 

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No it will have to be made longer...

 

haha, well now that throws a kink in things. I thought JDM exhausts always needed to get cut shorter to fit b/c JDM cats were shorter. I tried to pull my stock exhaust off and hang this one to see how much but some hangers are gonna have to be cut off so i couldn't.... Just by laying it out under the car though it looked to be very close to the same length. Within an inch or two maybe.

 

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Thats right about an inch. But if you dont make it longer the muffler will bang on your rear sway bar

(try a couple of flanges, you can get them at a exhaust shop)

 

Am i right about the holes in the flange needing to be redrilled? in/out?

 

yep, you will have to elongate the holes outward.

 

i'm sorry but that avatar is really creepy, Cottonwoodz..

 

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my thoughts exactly

 

You can clean it really well with Simple Green. If you're looking for stuff around the house, Windex works just as good(go figure!).

 

I got it cleaned up, now i just have to get the old one off and this one on... I plan on painting the piping with high temp black paint also.

 

thats one hell of an improvement....... nice job

 

ya cotton whats up with your whacked out avatars ????

 

Sooooooo... i got the stock exhaust off and now i'm running open headers + cat until i get this exhaust on.... I have them laid out side by side and it looks like the RS*R is about an inch TOO LONG... boy oh boy, everyday its a new story...