WTF? Muffler blew off
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WTF? Muffler blew off
So I was driving late at night and pushing the car a bit, doing the recommended weekly redlining. On one of my redlining stints, around 6k rpm in 3rd, the exhaust note suddenly got a lot louder and stayed louder. The backfiring also became a lot more pronounced and I suspected that I got a hole in my muffler some how. When I got home, I noticed my passenger side muffler was askew so I looked underneath and the entire muffler had actually blown off. The pipe at the front end of the muffler is bent to **** and I think the muffler is only hanging on by the hangars. WTF? Has this happened to anyone else?
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i went thru about 5 cheap mufflers like that with my old NA. It ran pig rich and loaded the muffler up with fumes and backfired at redline. i never quite figured it out so i put a glass pack on it and a pair of cheap APC cans on it
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This is what happens when you combine a rust (or cheap) muffler and backfiring...
Yes, it can do damage to the exhaust system like this.
This is why I dunno why idiots WANT to cause the exhaust to backfire...
*sigh*
-Ted
Yes, it can do damage to the exhaust system like this.
This is why I dunno why idiots WANT to cause the exhaust to backfire...
*sigh*
-Ted
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ya, the only time ive ever heard of that is with older mufflers that rust out and disconect from the pipe... that sucks though man sorry, just grab some wood glue and throw it back on there... thats what my friend did with his hyundai accent, but then again let this be a lesson to all of you to never first off own a hyundai accent, and second off at least dont moddify it
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It happens. I've never seen it on a 2nd gen, only heard of it. However I blew up a muffler in my SA due to stuck carb secondaries and that wonderful (no sarcasm) thermal reactor exhaust.
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my buddy had a dump truck with a big block chevy engine. We were having a bunch of trouble getting it started (flooding the crap out of it) and when it did it blew the muffler up like it was a bomb. It had a whole new exhaust system in it, just comes down to the fact then when fuel collects in your exhaust and it ignites, well it blows up.
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For all you people who assume I was running a cheap muffler, no, it was stock. Why do you assume I cheaped out and put on some piece of **** Ractive mufflers or something?
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People are just trying to put some ideas out there, be thankful they replied.
They don't know you don't have a crap muffler on there so they put the idea out there.
Anyway, it sounds like you are either running rich or the thing was pretty flooded recently.
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ya i just removed my stock exhaust and put my friends (shadoe actually) HKS exhaust which im buying from him and my stock exhaust was pretty rusted out... i dunno how longer it mightve lasted honestly...
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