Exhaust Rubbing Drive shaft

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joenismos15
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I have the HKS Hipower 3" exhaust and An Aluminum 1 Piece DSS Drive Shaft, And every once in a while i hear a scraping sound and simultaneously feels like a bit of power loss i took a look at the Drive shaft and it looks like something is rubbing it a little, on my exhaust it looks like the Stainless steel L shaped bracket hits it when i make hard left Turns. Any one else have this problem? I used Brand new Hangers and Hardware that came with the Exhaust any one have any ideas?

Ill post pic once i get it on a LIft again.


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S13Joe
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Get stiffer rubber hangers, cut the piece of pipe thats rubbing and relocate it, get some metal wire and hang it more away from the driveshaft, either one of those should work.

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Chris28
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You know the same thing happened to me after I put all my turbo stuff on. Bottom mount t2 setup with sr downpipe. I was able to fix it with hangers but now I have some exhaust leaks. Only thing I can think of is using coat hangers to lif it up a little.

joenismos15
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Where was your Rubbing?

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Chris28
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The front corner of the resonator, the side closest to the driveshaft. It was like the top of theresonator hitting the bottom of the ds.


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