So this morning i decided to lift my car on a jack to install sumthin in the front... i take a look at my jpipe and WHOA!!!! Do u guys think this will become an issue sooner then later? This is the only thing holdin me back from goin lower in NYC

Sorry for the BB pics

 

It happens to a lot of us...it's purely cosmetic damage.

 

Ouch.....

 

Gone the same for a over 5k miles. No issues here. I done think it will be a problem.

 

nice, so no worries for me

 

Yea you're good. Just watch out when you work under your car. Don't want to scrape your arm against that. It hurts!

 

I stand corrected; I have a leak at the damaged flex section of the pipe.

 

what's behind the braiding? i thought it was just a set of coils? but of course, that wouldn't really make sense...?

 

Can't tell. I can only feel the exhaust escaping. If the muffler shop can't fix it, it will be a good excuse to upgrade to an ATLP or XLR8.

 

Well now I'm worried about mine! I just bottomed out real hard the other day.....hope I didn't "hurt" my XLR8 Jpipe.......I actually scrapped it on a speed bump not long after I installed it...not dents, just scratches.

 

It takes some time to wear out. Its just metal mesh with a tube in the middle as I recall. I forgot we had to take my friends apart....He inverted his flex pipe and blew it inside out on his turbo car. But yea muffler shops should be able to fix flexpipes...they would just cut the old one off and reweld a new one on.

 

yo ev... you can replace the flex with one that will outlast the car... if you need some help with it... hit me up... i threw a 2.5" flex on my coupe teg (before is old it)...

you can use this as an excuse to tuck it higher and away from road damage to allow you to go lower

this is a tiny one but you can get pretty much any size

 

^Nope....made up my mind. I'm getting a new one (higher flow).

 

thread REVIVAL!!! lol

so I hear an exhaust leak and I know its from this scrap at my jpipe... any muffler shop could do this for me am I correct?

Altho I want that new RV6 jpipe

 

had the same thing happen to the flex pipe on my old rv6 jpipe

 

Looks like its time to upgrade to the V3 jpipe so you never have to worry about ground clearance issues again :-)

 

I developed a leak in my ATLP J Pipe flex section. Muffler shop welded on one of these.



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001804QN8

 

excellent will 1st check my local muffler shop, and if they dont have the proper size they ill look into this 1.... thnx Andrew