I heard (and felt) a backfire straight out of the header. Does that count? :)
I had a weld on my last exhast system that was in what sounds like the same
place. It kept getting bumped on the speed bumps and eventually broke...
Have you tried putting the bolts on the clamp upwards instead of downwards? It
would just be the ring that hit the bumps that way...
It sounds like the whole system is hanging too low. I just put a replacement
exhaust system on mine last night. It is now hung right up next to the bottom
of the car. It actually uses the grooves in the underbody that are for the
pipe.
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, James Nazarian Jr wrote:
> Before I get down to my real question, has anyone ever heard the sound of
> a B engine with only the downpipe on it? It is such a beautiful, albeit
> loud, sound. The real question is this: How does everyone keep the
> exhaust pipes together underneath the car. I have an old thrush exhaust,
> that looks similar to the PECO system. It is one muffler/resonator in the
> rear with no front muffler. My problem is that I can not hold the front
> joint together. There is a joint in the pipes under the driver floor that
> I can not keep a clamp on. standard exhaust clamps last a week because my
> car drags over all the bumps and driveways that it can find. Short of
> welding the joint (this would make the exhaust one peice from downpipes to
> exhaust tip) what else might I try? I don't think I can find bandclamps
> anywhere in that small a diameter (1.5 or 1.75 I forget) and even if I
> could they still have a big block on the side where the bolts go. So now
> the the three solutions everyone was gonna suggest have been addressed,
> anyone have any really creative ideas that might work? TIA. I wish I
> could leave it off, but my car is loud enough already, and at some point I
> am going to get a ticket for it.
>
> James Nazarian
> '71 B roadster
> '71 BGT rust free and burnt orange
> '63 Buick 215
>
> "Aerodynamics are for people who cannot build engines"
> Enzo Ferrari
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