[s-cars] Exhaust banging - APR snub mount

[Robert Pastore]

Taka:

Mine was installed by Denny at Mufflex, he's the best exhaust guy I know.
Initally, we installed it with the straight pipe -- it didn't hit but it was
just too loud.
Put the cat pipe in and it hits under hard 1st & 2nd gear acceleration.
Notice on install the cat pipe and the straight pipe are slightly different
in length/bend.

At 183K miles, I'm betting on the snub mount.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: t44tq at mindspring.com [mailto:t44tq at mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:55 PM
To: Joseph Pizzimenti
Cc: Robert Pastore; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Exhaust banging - APR snub mount


Bob, Joe-
When I had the Stromung installed, it took my mechanic several tries to get
the exhaust aligned perfectly so it wouldn't hit anything. My guess is that
you need to find a guy who is anal enough to get it perfect.

Our A4 has a Borla 2.5" that many people claim rubs and vibrates and doesn't
work right. Well.... ours works perfectly, only vibrates after driving a
while
in deep snow (6" of fresh snow at night, driving half sideways on back
roads,
imitating WRC at 1/5 speed). My mechanic tweaked the exhaust on this car as
well.

If it's not an alignment issue, maybe the snub mount will help- said to
reduce
movement significantly, although the AWE Driveline Stabilizer is a lot
better
(I don't think it works on anything but A4/S4s though). APR has a similar
product for S4s.

Taka