Joe

Hey guys i was just wondering if scraping the y pipe and the subframe connectors once or twice is bad for the car. When i say bad, i mean as bad as changing the y pipe or having it checked. I just had the eibach prokit/bilstein hd installed today and i drove back to school. On the way out of a gas station I scraped the bottom pretty bad, i thought i got stuck on the ridge. Also, there were some pretty bad potholes on the 5. Please give your imput PLEASE!!! thanks

GREEN GOBLIN

I'd definately have a look at it, I wouldn't assume anything until I surveyed the damage...

Racehead

If you hit hard enough so that it stopped the car or you got hung up, then I would assume that some damage has occurred until proven otherwise. Take a good look.

Joe

One of my friends told me that if I did damage the y pipe or any other pipe that i could easily hear the problem. Is this true. Also i'm probably going to have this checked when i'm installing the cutout, but how do i make sure that the shop wont give me **** and rip me off

TomQ

well, think logicaly,
you scraped your y-pipe hard, what can be the damage ?
it can be bent over, kind squashed, or has a hole(s) on it, so you will be able to hear it because it will produce the kind of effect of the cutout, will be louder then your stock exhaust..

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xaon

iTrader: (12)

you would have to get under the car and see exactly what you are hitting and how bad. Mine is lowered 1-1.5" and I scrape my y-pipe all the time on speed bumps if i'm too lazy to do a big angle cut. Just be careful in the future, these cars scrape enough at stock height, not to mention what they're like when they're lowered.

mitchntx

iTrader: (14)

The mounts on the exhaust are rubber and the pipe will give quite a bit.