Anyone with a MIG?

[Tanya]

I need my exhaust welded before I freak out completely. It has always been somewhat leaky due to the fact it is using the stock cat with upgraded 2.5" piping on either side and it just doesn't mesh weel. The gaskets that came with my exhaust have never fit right and Ive replaced them a few times only for it to leak again.

I hit my cat on a speed bump last night and the exhaust leak is even worse. I've had it. I want the cat (which is gutted) to be welded to my midpipe and the pipe before it.

I really do not want to go to Cookies tomorrow but will if I have to, would rather have this done today. :frown

[Anthony]

pm frank

hes basically the fmr welder

[+Juan]

frank.

/thread

[Tanya]

Ugh, it's too late now. I went to Cookie's and had him take out the cat and put a pipe in. The car sounds absolutely horrible like this.

FML

[STiDriven]

Fail.

[Tanya]

Yes.

Hacked into my HKS midpipe for this little fiasco and now I want earplugs just to drive it. At least I didn't pay a lot but I had no idea the sound would change SO drastically.

[STiDriven]

Yeah, NA imports without cats usually sound pretty nasty. You just gotta throw a turbo on it to smooth out the sound. :redspotd

[Hawk]

get a resonator in place of the cat in the future, that should mellow the tone out a bit.

[racer44]

Tanya next time if you need i have a mig and a lift in Naples.

[Tanya]

^Oh I need this shit fixed right ASAP. Still leaking, sounds like poo, etc etc. I need to take the whole exhaust down, cut the shit out that Cookie's welded in, put a resonator in its place, and weld up a flange in front.

Do you have a sawzall too? LOL

[racer44]

yes

[Tanya]

cool, lmk when i can swing by. i guess i should start researching resonators =/

[Devil Man]

note to you.... cookies sucks giagantic dick... dont go there ever! there is a place on the corner of airport and radio called exhaust works or something next to that a/c auto place.. they do good work and prices too.

[racer44]

anytime just call me i'm almost always here. Joe

[JP]

^ Joe knows his shit.

As has been noted, get a resonator of some sort or a bullet muffler on there in place of the cat to mellow the tone down.

[Semi Jew]

its a pain in the ass getting an na import with no cat to sound decent.

ill be going on my 4th catback next week with the new motor. somehow i think i 3" exhaust n/a is going to be raspy even with the two 18" resonators that I'm having put in.

[Tanya]

At this point, I fear spending any sort of money for a resonator when I KNOW I liked the sound of my car WITH the gutted cat, I just HATED that the fucker was leaking... thats all I wanted was the damn flanges to be welded, but NOOOOoOoOooO too fucking difficult apparently.

I'll be pissed as hell spending $100ish and then hating the damn sound of whatever I get if that happens. Ugh.

[Acuracy]

its a pain in the ass getting an na import with no cat to sound decent.

ill be going on my 4th catback next week with the new motor. somehow i think i 3" exhaust n/a is going to be raspy even with the two 18" resonators that I'm having put in.

You're going to get pwnt by ricer rattle lol, right about the time you go flying by the car that was laughing at you :redspotd

[Tanya]

:frown

thanks, I'm going to go cut my wrists now.

[bimmershark]

throw a 20 dolla cherry bomb on it lol

[Tanya]

hell no -.-

[Acuracy]

lol...

[bimmershark]

i am gonna really really piss you off right now.........








when i had my supra the exhaust broke on my i didnt have much cash so i put a cherry bomb on it...it was not loud but didnt sound great didnt sound bad was only slightly louder then stock

[Tanya]

Pffft, I had a cherrybomb on my 1st Supra, back in 2001.

I've grown up and I refuse to do that to this car.

[bimmershark]

Pffft, I had a cherrybomb on my 1st Supra, back in 2001.

I've grown up and I refuse to do that to this car.

lol well what are your options that are cheap but will make it sound good?

[Tanya]

Probably going to ask someone to send me a stock cat, so I can gut it and put it back how I want it, LOL

Fuck this nonsense already.

[bimmershark]

Probably going to ask someone to send me a stock cat, so I can gut it and put it back how I want it, LOL

Fuck this nonsense already.

we should get a few ppl together and make a junkyard run tom

[Tanya]

Oooooo yeah I wanted to go up to the JY up there, but my kids have early release day tomorrow so it wont happen :(

[bimmershark]

we ll have to throw up a thread and plan for maybe early next week

[Tanya]

I will probably be broke by then, LOL

we'll see I guess. Im actually getting used to the sound. I might go to the meet tonight and ask around to see if it's annoying to anyone else. My ex drove beside me the other night and said it wasnt as bad as I was making it out to be. *shrug*

[stevieg]

Ugh, it's too late now. I went to Cookie's and had him take out the cat and put a pipe in. The car sounds absolutely horrible like this.

FML

fuck that guy, his is so over priced.

[racer44]

i've got some hole saws too lol j/k let me know if u need help

[JP]

Cherry bombs work pretty good as resonators. Get a smaller one that will fit in-place of the cat; that'd be a cheap way to mellow it down, just don't take the current muffler off.

[Tanya]

Nah, I'm going to go back with what I know I liked before, that way I cannot set myself up for more anger issues, LOL. And it's a lot cheaper as well :]

[ajstefanacci]

isn't a gutted cat pretty much the same as a straight pipe?

[Tanya]

isn't a gutted cat pretty much the same as a straight pipe?

If that were the case, would I really be flipping out over how much different my car sounds?


Last month: car with gutted cat... deepish (for an inline n/a) sound, not droney on interstate,

Right now: car with straight pipe... goes from fairly quiet to obnoxiously loud at 2500rpm, high pitched drone, very loud in car on interstate

yes there is a BIG difference in the sound between straight pipe and gutted cat.

[ajstefanacci]

did you get a whole straight pipe or just a cat delete pipe?

[JP]

A gutted cat acts as an expansion chamber, which can have an effect on exhaust/sound waves similiar to a resonator.

[Tanya]

Cookie's hacked into my HKS midpipe and the pipe before the cat and welded in a section of straight pipe... and did a poor job of it as well. So yeah, don't go there =/

[bimmershark]

you should do like japan and have sidepipe stacks