Somehow my exhaust got pinched between the rear end and the panhard bar it looks like where it goes over the rearend. At first I thought it might be factory but there's no way they'd flatten that large pipe down to 1.75 or 2 inches from 3.

My question is, for a simple fix would it be dumb to just put on a dynomax 24in bullet and turn it down just before the rear axle and remove the rest of the exhaust? Keep in mind stock manifolds and running cats still. I can handle moderately loud I just don't want it to be obnoxiously loud and not all that faster than stock.

Thanks.

 

sounds like you got a shock going down or a broken spring.

 

Ya think so?

 

Dynomax bullet and no stock muffler will sound an awful lot like an SLP Loudmouth cat-back. You can search on that and "dynomouth", which is more like what you would be running. It's loud, unrefined and has rasp..but with stock manifolds and cats it sounds pretty good.

 

Here's a few pics, its worse than it looks in the pics but I couldn't get a good angle.

 

what year is your car and that looks stock to me, there is no crush marks on the pipe

 

that looks like its been replaced to me , the factory didnt use wrinkle bends did they ? looks like someone did that to get it in there or something . that side of the panhard bar does not move but very little and the panhard brace dosent move at all .

 

It's a "99 camaro, it is just plain fucked up looking reguardless if its stock(I havn't seen one stock like that).

Someone else had told me they didn't recall the factory using wrinkle bends.

 

That definetely does not look like a factory piping. I just went outside to look at my g/f's car and it doesn't look like that. Why not just buy a new catback?

 

I just took my stock '02 exhaust off a month ago and it had no mandrel bends.
And that upper panhard bar doesn't move enough (or at all) to crush that pipe.
Plus that pipe looks like it's bent over a 6-8 flat area, that bar couldn't do that even if it did move.

My conclusion: Someone installed a pipe (or catback) and bent that center pipe to get it over the upper panhard bar because they were too lazy to remove it and reinstall it.

 

I'll probly end up putting on an e-cutout and run with it as it sits or get headers and install headers and whatever exhaust I decide on all at once. I am still highly tempted to get rid of that and just do a bullet/turndown before the rear axle, only reason I don't think it will be too bad is due to still having cats/stock everything.

I really appreciate everyone's replies keep them coming if you have any other thoughts.