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InTeReX · 10-12-2003, 09:30 AM

How bout this!!
I was leaving a restaurant in my 92 camry. I noticed the entrance/exit was steep coming in and i drove real slow and at a slight angle coming in, and made it in just fine. Now leaving..ugh..different story.
i tried to leave the same way i came in, but the next thing i hear is...SSSCCCRRRAAAAPPPPEEEE....then my car sounds like some sorta tractor or bi-plane. So i turn the car off (right in the entrance with ppl waiting to get in) and get out to see what happened. (broke the pipe coming from the intake manifold).
I was pissed to say the least..but nothing i could do about it there, so i get back in a start to leave and i hear a SSCCRRAAPPEE, THUNK!...WTH. i get out and my whole exhaust is layin on the ground.(i'm halfway in the road now) so i have to get my jack to hold my exhaust up and temporarily tie it up with some damn wire. drive it home to weld the exaust back up. Next day, take it to my friend down at the CMS (custom muffler shop) and they fit me some new pipe and some new mesh pipe for about $100. DAMN STEEP ENTRANCES!!

grapefury · 10-12-2003, 10:12 AM

i know just what you mean.. my gf has a driveway that is flat but the place where it connects to the road is a really steep curve.. so i was scraping the body of my car getting out..

now i just park on the street..
haha

KamryStylez · 10-12-2003, 01:03 PM

Yep, dont you hate sometimes you get in the driveway fine but when coming out the people who are coming in just keeps on coming and there is people waiting behind you and you have no room to go from an angle and you have to go striaght dead on. Hurts me just thinking about it, got mines scraped HARD yesterday my piping got scrape everythin else was fine =(

kgasso · 10-12-2003, 01:20 PM

Ouch. I'm usually okay in most driveways, but have the same problem in parking garages where I don't have any room to try to take the incline-to-flat transition one wheel at a time.

A couple of months ago, I swore I was gonna have the ultimate free-flowing exhaust after a few trips in and out of one for a hotel. The concrete that the roadway surface was made of had obviously taken some abuse too, quite a few chunks out of it. So if you're ever in Portland, OR I'm going to suggest not using the parking garage of the Red Lion at the Convention Center... that is unless you wanna pick up your whole exhaust system after you pull out and pack it in the car/trunk for the trip home.

khanhdom · 10-12-2003, 02:13 PM

oh man i hate bumps and steeps hills...I just scratch the whole buttom of my kit, and my exhausts are all scratched up at the bottom and the tip...grrr...I have to go paint my kit all over again

InTeReX · 10-12-2003, 05:45 PM

HEHE...i got everything fixed now...but that just pissed me off...why can't they make it even with the road???

Nick · 10-12-2003, 06:02 PM

what did you break? explain tube going into intake manifold

the 3 inch one from the filter?

InTeReX · 10-12-2003, 09:19 PM

seeing as i'm not too keen with the engine itself...mainly just bodywork and the such, i probably used the wrong terms..lol

Anyways..on a 92 camry...pipe right before the Caty Conv., (the one with the mesh piping) Follow that up untill it connects to something else...and right where it connected (SNAP) nice clean break!

Let me know if this "pipe" has a certain name...thanks!

Nick · 10-12-2003, 10:17 PM

flex pipe

Stealth · 10-12-2003, 11:09 PM

back out of places like that... but yeah ive had a hole in my exhast for quite a while now

The Wolf · 10-13-2003, 02:01 AM

Personally, my favorite kind of road is the main street that is shaped like an arch, where if you're trying to beat the light coming off a side street, you kinda become airborne in the front until garvity takes over.... thump.....SCRAPE..... never done that in my Camry but did it on my 1st car (89 Lesabre). I've bottom out my twice like that.... stupid roads. That's why i'm heistant to lower my car... Where I drive, I'd scratch teh hell outta my car.

InTeReX · 10-13-2003, 03:10 PM

Quote:

POSTED BY STEALTH:
back out of places like that... but yeah ive had a hole in my exhast for quite a while now

Kinda hard to do that, when it's goin out into a main road. But i've messed my pipe up more backing out than driving out normal.

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POSTED BY OLDMAN:
flex pipe

Yes..the mesh part is flex pipe, i know this (just slipped mind) But i'm talkin bout the pipe that the Flex is connected to and what it comes out of (Intake Manifold?)