i had an Invidia for like 6 months, and while i had it, i took it off 3 times (6 exhaust jobs total). so while i had it on, the hangers were prety much always greased. but it never really moved around while i was driving.

now that i've had my HKS on for about 5 months, my friend who always drives behind me says that it shakes whenever i go over the smallest bumps. is there any way i can fix this, or will it always be like that just because the HKS is so heavy?

 

I have followed someone with an HKS and their's also moved around quite a bit on hard acceleration and bumps.

Dunno if this helps, but I doubt you are the only one with the problem....

 

i hate things that make my car look cheap. like a shaking around exhaust!

 

exhaust on a ferrari f430 shakes as well...i hardly would call that car cheap

 

It's always a toss up between being loose enough to handle the movement of the engine on the mounts and being too tight and having other problems.

FWIW- if all you have is looseness just relax and be happy. I put big oval tips on my car, and the OEM rubber mounts are too soft. During high g-loads at the track I have melted the oval cutouts in the lower bumper where the tips go through...

 

true. but stil....


Anthony does yours move around too?

 

I just gone done re-doing my HKS.

Re-weld, powder-coat and a polish.

 

sitting from the drivers seat i would not know lol...no one has ever mentioned it to me and b/c you brought it up i went outside just now and tried to shake the exhaust mufflers with my hands and it would barely move

 

^^yeah i could barely get it to move as well. but i guess when you go over bumps, there's a lot more force acting on it because my friend said it shakes like crazy

 

did you have one of the older ones that has the rust problem? did this help the shaking at all? i can't imagine it would

and did you weld it all as one piece, or you jsut re-welded the existing welds?