Car sounds like a semi

[talontsi01]

I'm driving home on the express way and all of a sudden my car gets very very loud. I pull off the freeway to check it out. The sound is rpm relative and sounds like an exhaust leak the size of Texas. I couldn't find anything visably wrong though

My car is cooling off in the garage. I'll thouroughly check it out tomorrow.

My first impressions where that I had an exhaust leak. I think I smelled exhaust in the engine bay.

Has anything like this happened to anyone? Anyone think its anything else?

 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

I'm driving home on the express way and all of a sudden my car gets very very loud. I pull off the freeway to check it out. The sound is rpm relative and sounds like an exhaust leak the size of Texas. I couldn't find anything visably wrong though

My car is cooling off in the garage. I'll thouroughly check it out tomorrow.

My first impressions where that I had an exhaust leak. I think I smelled exhaust in the engine bay.

Has anything like this happened to anyone? Anyone think its anything else?

check out the basics tomorrow, if you can't see anything wrong start it up and find where the sound is coming from

 

[1993eclipseGS]

This recently happened to me. My car got VERY loud, And even my bov sounded different, It sounded EXACTLY like a semi.
I looked the next day and found out that my two bolts holding the downpipe to the o2 housing had unscrewed themselves and I was running open o2 housing!

 

[2gGSX]

This recently happened to me. My car got VERY loud, And even my bov sounded different, It sounded EXACTLY like a semi.
I looked the next day and found out that my two bolts holding the downpipe to the o2 housing had unscrewed themselves and I was running open o2 housing!

that could explain it , i was thinking something like that might have happened

 

[talontsi01]

Yea. Its good to here that its happened to someone before. I'm gonna check after work today.

thanks guys

 

[talontsi01]

Jacked the car up and looked at it.


The flange right after the flex section deteriorated completely. My exhaust has been cut in half.

 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

Jacked the car up and looked at it.


The flange right after the flex section deteriorated completely. My exhaust has been cut in half.

Time for a 3" turbo back exhaut huh.

 

[talontsi01]

Seriously.

I want to build my own turboback.

 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

Seriously.

I want to build my own turboback.

It's pretty easy. I had fun doing my 2g.
It took a little extra work but I also ported my o2 housing, welded a 3" flange on it( A little tough being cast but not too bad) then I ground it all the way out so it flared smoothly into the 3".

 

[talontsi01]

Where did you buy all of your bends?

 

[JATBarandgrill]

You can buy mandrel bent U bends on ebay for decent price. Then you can cut to pretty much an angle w/ a U bend.

 

[ZyklonBZombie]

I'm driving home on the express way and all of a sudden my car gets very very loud. I pull off the freeway to check it out. The sound is rpm relative and sounds like an exhaust leak the size of Texas. I couldn't find anything visably wrong though

My car is cooling off in the garage. I'll thouroughly check it out tomorrow.

My first impressions where that I had an exhaust leak. I think I smelled exhaust in the engine bay.

Has anything like this happened to anyone? Anyone think its anything else?

i had a similar problem on my awd last summer ... it turned out a bolt (stud) had come loose on the exhaust man. ... it was one of the ones that goes to the turbo ... not the ones that bolt to the head

 

[talontsi01]

I didnt upgrade.

I just had a shop put on a new flex section. 94 bux installed. I just needed to get it on the road again.