So about the exhaust... my specific instructions were
- super quiet, small muffler
- turn down the tip of the exhaust before the edge of the gas tank skid plate, explained how it would get crunched offroad
- keep the muffler out of the way of the passenger upper control arm bolt so that it's easy to get to
- watch out for trackbar and axle clearance in general
- watch out for passenger lower control arm contact during axle droop
This is what I got:
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Welded all the way down, so now it's one piece that can't be removed without cutting it out. I intentionally left a clamp on the cat where it meets with the Y-pipe, assuming they would use it, but in their defense I didn't explicitly tell them.
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Barely hanging in the exhaust holder. Must have cut material off the Y-pipe, which won't make things easier when I get around to fixing all this BS.
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Loud-ass, highway-droning, rock-catching, bolt-blocking muffler. Instead of using a center-to-center style, they put in this offset muffler and used the offset to hang the exhaust low. It's hanging about even with the height of the skid. I'll probably mangle it on a rock soon enough.
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I can turn the bolt around if I need to, but it blocks the UCA bolt like I specifically instructed not to. Could've been closer to the under armor and out of the way.
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The turn down hangs past the gas tank skid plate and a bit lower. Looks like
. I haven't cycled the suspension to see if anything hits but I'm not too optimistic...
$352.64
I was talking with a buddy about it and he made the point that most exhaust shops aren't really knowledgeable about the needs of an offroad vehicle, and most offroad shops don't specialize in exhaust.