So after taking my cat off I had to take off the back grill noticed that the tailpipes have "rub" away part of the grill as it was sitting on it I can see two hangers with springs holding the mufler do I twist the bolt on top of that to lift / lower the muffler height?
PO had taken off my CAT and replaced it with a straight through pipe and now the exhaust tips are not centered in the grille (to far to the right as you face the back end). Was wondering also how to get them centered?
off center seems that the pipe is not fitting correctly as the hanger fork has a little play side to side or the muffler tips were not assembled correctly update I have about a 1/4 in drop on the left side
The correct way to adjust the exhaust is to loosen all the pipes from the headers end onwards, and juggle unit to be centred and such. If some of the pipes pre cat have not previously been loosened like this, they might be kind of stuck on from heat and corrosion, might need to dismantle, dremel tool and cold chisel off the old donut gaskets and put in new do nuts, so could get to be a more fussy project. You might get lucky just loosening the muffler and both sides of the cat and repositioning while retightening, would be good to have a helper to hold the muffler while you tighten, this might be worth trying first.
so I only had the cat bolts lose and managed to push up on the side that was lower while tighting it worked!! no more tailpipe on the grill Note: when installing the new cat with new donuts I found that taking the exhaust hanger pin out of the driver side then easing the cat with donuts back into position while resting the exhaust on myself for support then install at least one bolt on each side of the cat then repin the hanger was the easiest way to reinstall
Glad you succeeded. Those spring loaded hangers on each end which are not adjustable even though they look like they might be are the fanciest muffler hangers I have ever seen!
So while I had to remove the cat I took the opportunity to clean things up: repaint the exhaust rock screen protector (damn its stainless would look good w/o paint too!) clean the exhaust mirror, I mean the stainless heat guard ! (cheez no wonder why Ferrari mechanics always look so good they have a mirror to make sure they dont have grease on their face!) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
