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Old 07-25-2011, 08:56 PM   #1
jsharp
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Exhaust rattle on tunnel brace fix your take?

Ok so i am highly tired of hearing my exhaust hitting my tunnel brace. So first i tried washers/nuts to space it out;it still hit. Second i padded my brace with exhaust wrap; worked but looked bad and i smelled burning after a while and took it off assuming it was that well it wasnt i had wire looms close to headers melting. So i was to lazy and displeased with that so when i sent it back to livernois i had them try. It lasted a few spins hitting again. After further research i find since i have noweeds diverters i had to cut the original piping and bolt them in place which is causing the exhaust to sag at that point therefore resting my resonator on the tunnel brace. After trying bmr brace and having no more clearance as pipe size is not the issue i came up with a new idea and want some advice.

Idea: take a 1/2 inch to 3/4inch bolt weld the head of it to the resonator pointing down. Drill a whole thru center of bmr tunnel brace. Put a nut on first then slide tunnel brace over bolt and secure it with 4 original bolts, then put a nut on the bottom of new center bolt and tighten the one on top and bottom and adjust height and seperation with two nuts.

My question is not if it will work but if it will effect drone due to stiffness and is there a more efficient way to do it?
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