thought you could fix everything with zip ties and duct tape?

 

Duct tape on exhaust?

 

I see no problem

 

It heats up and the adhesive inside the tape gets warm and gooey and then it basically goes where it needs to, "form fitting" if you will, and then it just seals the exhaust. Old ancient trick that mechanics used to use on military planes in the early wars.

I also just pulled all of that out of my ass

 

But you have to replace it every hundred miles or 2h of use, thats where rice went wrong

 

I made a gasket out of tin foil to get me by for a while, and it ended up lasting over a year before it leaked

And I can see Adam just wrapping a big ball of duck tape around the flange union

 

^^ i see it too

 

throw it in the gutter, go buy another

 

word to the mother

 

How did they replace the tape every 2 hours when these military planes were in the air longer than that?!

 

Military duct tape is different than Civilian duct tape, my recommendations were for Civilian duct tape. I am not sure on the Military duct tape specs though

 

I never used duct tape? Lol

 

if you can't duck it, **** it

 

It's ok to be honest about duct tape usage, it is your build thread

 

The only duct tape used in my car is wrapped around the radio tower panels to reduce rattling!

I did use exhaust tape though, between the clamps and the pipes. Bye bye leaks. Matt, i know id be better off having not overclamped the bolts on the first place, but since the pieces would slide off anyway, i had to clamp tighter! And since they leaked, i had to exhaust tape them!

 

rice actually duck taped his whole trunk instead of dynamat. he said it was extra weight savings.

 

It would do the same thing using less weight!!

 

I mean yeah you can over clamp them but chances are they were warped from zzp because I've installed a lot of their parts and they never come surfaced. Chances are that's where your problem started and if they used crappy hardware then of course you needed to over tighten it because they back off.

Just saying for others to know if they have issues where it usually begins. BTW it's been awhile I think I'll make that announcement tonight in a separate thread.

 

I'm willing to bet rice didn't let the exhaust go through a thermal cycle when he first installed it, and re torque to spec...

Exhaust started to get a leak, clamped them tighter.... leaked again.... clamped them tighter, and bam deformed connections.

Happens to the best of us, but can be prevented.

 

Yes this is know of but what I'm saying is 70% of 2 bolt flanges that come from manufacturers are warped a lot of times and people see them and think they are not tightened all the way and keep tightening them to pull the outsides in and the middle then pulls outwards.

 

Yes... that does happen as well.

That's why it is always a good idea to inspect the flanges before installing an exhaust.

 

i'm willing to bet your face!

I started it, drove it around for a bit, took it home, retightened the next day. piece after the resonator just fell off put it back on and tightend the hell out of it. dirty cycle continues.

 

 

sounds legit to me

 

Hey rice, where did you pick up the bride fabric for your armrest?