While working on the engine bay I was also working to fit the new to me exhaust (the cgr I have posted about on here previously). I wanted to do the job properly so I bought a new exhaust hanger mount kit from Pro - Am, a pair of gram exhaust mount bush's and a new OEM centre exhaust hanger.
Alot of the bolts were quite rusty holding the hanger mounts to the car but alot of wd-40 later they all came off. The hangers had previously been worked on by someone, they were standard but had been diy'd to look like a powerflex style bush but it wasn't great and once cut out came apart very easily. Very glad I replaced them for some proper bushes.
I cut out the majority of the bush material and then used a flat head and a hammer to remove the remains around the edges and then a file clean up the final bits. Having spent a decent amount of time cleaning them up I was happy with the finish and went to put the gram bushes in only to find out these weren't genuine hangers! And they wouldn't fit properly 🫣 so I had to start the whole thing again and I ordered 2 used genuine hangers off eBay.
Lesson learned always check parts if they are genuine! Especially on old cars like these. I hope I don't make this mistake again 😂
New hangers arrived a few days later and I set about cleaning them up. AGAIN 😬 this time it was easier and I'd learnt how to do it better. So I cut the main hanger out and then used a combination of the flat head, hammer and a wire wheel on a drill to clean them up and they were done much quicker.
Then I got to fitting the new bushes and test fitting them all onto the car which all went smoothly.
Knowing it all fitted, I put the new middle exhaust hanger on the car and set about tidying up the exhaust surrounds on the rear bumper. I took inspiration/copied Mr Underhill's idea of using the rubber edging and it worked perfectly and looks miles better than the old plastic that was on there as the old ones were white and wouldn't clean up but I've kept them to try and bring them back to life later down the line.
I then went to fit the new exhaust. This is where it goes down hill again 🙃 the new exhaust is missing part of the metal rod that would sit inside the hanger, it doesn't look to be cut off it looks to have been manufactured this way so the car it came off must have had a different hanger setup which I wasn't aware was a thing.
In the picture below the yellow line is what is missing
So after all this work to fit the new exhaust I ended up refitting the current ktec system to the car (in the rain which was not fun) and I now have another job on the list to manufacture and weld a new hanger to the back box and get the exhaust on the car.
But overall the exhaust sits much better and there is less rattle so it's a positive and I've cleaned the car up which is the never ending goal. (I don't have a photo of the finished result 🙃)
