i assume it's the packing that insulates and keeps the noise down. about a month or 2 ago my exhaust note jumped considerably. is this common? the exhaust is pretty old. should i get it chopped and put on a es/magnaflow muffler?

 

WTF?

 

Uhh if your NOT joking, I think someone stuffed a metal brillo pad in your exhaust.

 

i'm not joking. the brillo pad idea never occured to me.

1. who the hell would do something dumb like that?
2. my car was parked at my friend's apt all weekend, rear backed up 3" from a brick wall.

i tried pulling on it when i first noticed and it seemed stuck in there. that lead me to believe it came from the inside. however, i'm no expert on what's in an exhaust.

EDIT: nope. i just pulled on it and the ribbon-like stuff kept stretching and stretching. it's coming from inside the muffler.

 

theres like a fiberglass packing material in there. and i think that aspestace (sp?), the stuff you can't breath that was used as insulation in old houses.

 

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You mean aesbestos? It's not allowed to be used anymore.

 

awesome sh*t in your exhaust, kind of looks cool... if that is your packing what kind of "jump" in the tone do you hear now? is it higher?

i say its a good reason for an new aftermarket exhaust

 

wierd. on my stock exhaust when i got a hole in it, i got strands of metal coming out of exhaust. but it was an 8 year old pipe rusting.

 

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You mean aesbestos? It's not allowed to be used anymore. </TD></TR></TABLE>
you can have gaskets made of it. they sell it at autozone, you just can't use it for insulation inside of your house

 

that looks more like chips from a machine shop... thats quite a bit tho... lets hope its not the packing!

 

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well, this exhaust is pretty old too. i got it in '02 and the guy i bought it off of had it on '00. i had suspected there might be a whole in the exhaust but i don't have the tools too get under the car and check it out.

 

ewww!! wtf, ur exhaust is reaching puberty!!!!

 

packing material from the exhaust. Time for a new one.

 

If I'm correct that is the Trust or Greddy SP exhaust. And yea that is the steel wool packing material inside your muffler coming out. You should soon see cotton squares coming out too, which is the fiberglass sound deading material. I had a similar exhaust on my Civic back then too. The inside rusted out and all the packing material got blown out. There's a tube inside the muffler that will roll around once all the material is gone. You can either get the muffler cut off and replace it with the es/magnaflow like you said or you can fish the tube that's inside your muffler out. It will look like this.

 

or check your cat, it has the same steel wool linning on the wall. if it had disintegrated. the steel wool would eventually come out.

 

its the metal thats packed inside the muffler...it happens when everything rusts out...looks like you have a greddy which from what ive seen is prone to doing this..

 

WTF!! first time i ever seen this!!! Time for a new exhaust system.

 

WTF... it looks like in LostGsr the same sh it is comming out of that thing.. maybe its the same thing.

 

I had a HKS Hyper on my second gen teg. Exhaust was like 3 years old. Same thing started happening. The car felt held back some and the exhaust note was quieter. That's when I noticed the brillo stuff coming out. I pulled it all out and it was fine. Exhaust note was slightly louder but that's all.

 

ahaha, that picture loaded and i was immediately "WTF?!"

I know there is steel wool in certain resonators... but sounds like they have solved it w/ their above answers

 

man that just looks nasty......sorry man but......-_-

well good luck on ur solution lol

 

yikes man... take your own advice and get rid of it and put a magnaflow or es muffler

 

This happened to my friend's 300ZX TT w/a GReddy exhaust. We called his car the "kitten shooter" afterwards.

Should the muffler be re-packed? Where is that done?

 

gentlemen, thank you. looks like i'm gonna get me a new muffler.

how do you think the es oval or magnaflow will sound with greddy piping, no resonator and carsound 2.25 cat?

 

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lol made me laugh