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Old 06-23-2008, 04:42 PM   #18 (permalink)
Randy Chase
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I have heard of this happening to a supercharged car, but has it happened to a NA car? My lower engine mount bolts (both mounts) all worked loose (on the track) and the resultant torquing of the engine broke the exhaust pipe near the cat, but there was no resulting heat damage. It just got loud really fast.
On my car at Buttonwillow at the last WCLM. Rounding a corner, I heard the exhaust get louder. I pulled into the pits and checked it and found that the exhaust had separated from the cat. I did have aftermarket cat pipe and headers. But I can't say for sure that it was not operator error in making sure the clamp was tight enough.

The clamp is a little suspect in how well it clamps.
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