Ques. about the Flex pipe (front pipe)

[VietBoi]

i have a a hole in my flex pipe i wonder if i could use a PVC pipe and wrap around it using the ring to tighen it...that pipe could with stand 100F to 430F would it work? cuz i just need it so i can bring my car for inspection about a day...

[VietBoi]

anybody??

[Deep]

Nah man, it'll melt. You can buy just the flex pipe and have it welded in if you're not keen on dropping $250-300CDN on a new front pipe.

[87Camry5Speed]

PVC= Big No-No!!!

It'll give off toxic fumes when it gets good and hot, I was going to do my cold-air kit out of this stuff and even that gets too hot to be safe

I'd just follow deep on this one

Steve

[Nico]

Yep you can find these on ebay for instance I bought one from this guy : TAMMY GOMEZ ( tammy_3369@yahoo.com ) (ebay guy) for 15 or 20 bucks I think and it is working great.

[VietBoi]

oh ok thank you for u reply...
so i have a camry 96 4cly i saw the stainless steal flex part on the net for 30 somthing....anybody happen to knwo the size? as in the diameter of the pipe?

[jay360]

how is a flex pipe held in welded or clampd mine decided it wantd to pop off one day when i was on 95N an i got stuck puttin it back in on the highway (burnin my shirt doin it itz very hot never touch lol) but does thiis get clampd or welded........

by the way itz a 93 2.2 haha

[Nico]

It is welded! You'll need to cut your existing flex first and reweld your new one, no other choice. And don't try with those special ehaust pastes, I tried it first that way and the result was pathetic : you'll need to weld it !

[vanmankline]

Was the 2.25 inner diameter or outer?

Thanks!

[Mike Gerber]

vanmankline,

First of all, this thread is over 6 years old. Not many of these posters figure to still be aropund TN.

Where he said 2.2, he was talking about which engine he has, not the diameter of the pipe. The 2.2 liter is also known as the 5SFE 4 cylinder engine used on the Carmys form 1992-2001.

There have been people on this forum who have used a 2 inch diameter flex pipe available at most auto parts stores. I believe it is 10 icnhes long, but I'm not sure of that. Most people just cut out the old pipe and slip this aftermarket one on over the solid exhaust area and clamped it down using mufler clamps. There have been several threads on this so do a search.

Here's one of the threads about this repair:

Broken Flex Pipe - Loud Exhaust

Mike