182 Blue Top
So after a brief chat with Jade at Scorpion exhausts I have some of the newest centre pipe replacement sections on offer for the RS192 exhaust.
A bit of history, I bought mine in July 2012 so nearly 2 years old, but has been blowing on the centre section for some time where a weld had cracked. This may or may not have been a result of a failed centre exhaust bracket, if the rubber hanger bracket goes caput and snaps, I'm sure this caused the exhaust to crack. But none the less on with the pictures...
Top down...
Close up of engraving
494-RN 16-14 (14 meaning 2014 design hopefully)
Close up of flexible olive joint
The interesting bit is the flexible joint as above, will this help solve all this olive joint woes people complain about? Mine cracked at the other end, where the small triangular bracket joins the pipe to box, for strength I assume, but also peeled the weld apart when it went! (see below)
So back on track, has anyone else received this new revised design? I have a heavy duty olive joint clamp with two individual bolts, going to put high temp silicone on the clamp, inside the 'V' , which should hopefully seal well. I suppose with some flexibility there, if the clamp can be cranked right up with the silicone, the flex will be directly transferred to the sleeve mesh section in theory!
Also have some mikalor 2.5" clamps for the rear of the system, which is also blowing like a biatch, probably due in part to my poor joining skills and using no sealent when putting together first time round, new mesh clamp for the cat to manifold courtesy of Northwests, new centre hanger and also new rear hangers.
My car sounds like chavs wet dream at the moment, so bassy and hollow and puffy because of the leaks from each joint! Wish me luck putting it all back together!
A bit of history, I bought mine in July 2012 so nearly 2 years old, but has been blowing on the centre section for some time where a weld had cracked. This may or may not have been a result of a failed centre exhaust bracket, if the rubber hanger bracket goes caput and snaps, I'm sure this caused the exhaust to crack. But none the less on with the pictures...
Top down...
Close up of engraving
494-RN 16-14 (14 meaning 2014 design hopefully)
Close up of flexible olive joint
The interesting bit is the flexible joint as above, will this help solve all this olive joint woes people complain about? Mine cracked at the other end, where the small triangular bracket joins the pipe to box, for strength I assume, but also peeled the weld apart when it went! (see below)
So back on track, has anyone else received this new revised design? I have a heavy duty olive joint clamp with two individual bolts, going to put high temp silicone on the clamp, inside the 'V' , which should hopefully seal well. I suppose with some flexibility there, if the clamp can be cranked right up with the silicone, the flex will be directly transferred to the sleeve mesh section in theory!
Also have some mikalor 2.5" clamps for the rear of the system, which is also blowing like a biatch, probably due in part to my poor joining skills and using no sealent when putting together first time round, new mesh clamp for the cat to manifold courtesy of Northwests, new centre hanger and also new rear hangers.
My car sounds like chavs wet dream at the moment, so bassy and hollow and puffy because of the leaks from each joint! Wish me luck putting it all back together!
