racing beat exhaust install
 

I ordered a dual tip exhaust from Rx7.com in Garland, TX. last week. I got the exhaust Friday night so I behaved--went to bed early, little beer consumtion.

I opened up box more Saturday morning and found that one of the tips had been damaged in shipping. I had to wait till monday to get a hold of Rotary Performance.:cuss:

They handled it pretty well and I got new order in last night. I had to help a buddy pull an engine from his Nova so I didn't have time to get to it.

But today after a painful day of dealing with inept engineers I got home and put it on. I love it. My car is stock (well except for the new exhaust). The sound is really good, my buddy who is a Mustang owner had really good comments too.

Some install points.
--I spray PB Blaster on the bolts for a few days--well about a week and a half since the first shipment was damaged
--broke one bolt on rear hanger, but was able to take bolt out so no big deal
--Needed an impact to get nuts loose on cat. I used an electric impact gun and pulsed the trigger and had sprayed the bolts with PB Blaster for some time so I wasn't too worried about stripping or breaking anything
--I put exhaust together per instructions, but when I got to the last rubber hanger I couldn't pull it on. I ended up unbolting the exhaust. The connecting pipe was bolted to cat and had it hanger installed. Then I hung the muffler assembly and bolted the connecting pipe back on.

I wll post some pics when I get a hold of a camera.

well here are the pictures. Yep, looks like every other RB dual tip install.

I will probably take off the exhaust and remove the tow hitch this weekend, if I have time.

I still need to find out what is going to happen with the damaged exhaust. I don't think Rotary Performance wants it back. UPS will only lose more money if the come pick it up and I am not sure who they whould ship it too. Maybe I will get lucky and can sell it for a deep discounted price.

Well, hope this helps any one in the future. There isn't a lot of exhaust posts yet so this is my contribution to the forum for now.

looks cool, sound clips?

nice!

I got the same exhaust 8 months ago or so. I took off the tow hook and the exhaust i got had a bracket on the right side. I had to cut that off since it was tearing apart the rear bumper plastic. I also noticed that the exhaust hanger bushings allowed the exhaust to move around a lot. I bought some polyurethane exhaust hangers for about 5 bucks each and put those on. I used wd40 to squeeze the bushing on the hanger. now the exhaust doesnt move for shit. I very happy with it and i cant wait to finish my exhaust now that i have my power FC.

hopefully I can get a sound clip next week.

BTW much easier to install than my buddy's ZR2 Blazer. He has a made a custom exhaust since their are no aftermarket exhaust for the ZR2 package. We spent all night just getting the factory exhaust off. Required removing a transmission support and tire.

One stupid nut on the manifold and stupid (for servicing) one piece exhaust to the muffler slowed us way down.

Don't you guys find the rb duals too quiet? I can't even hear this thing on the track

i love the way the rb duals sound. i am really looking forward to opening up the exhaust with the down and midpipe with the cat delete. the sound is a nice subtle note with a shitload of aggressivness when you open up the throttle. I cant stand loud and obnoxious.

mine is my daily though.. maybe when its a track only my taste will change.

I agree it is quiet which is good for daily driving, I guess me personally I like my exhaust loud and obnoxious. I've also heard good things about the smb products