Hi guys,

well Im assuming im not the first person with this problem of the front pipe knocking on the cars lower brace.. so whats the typical solution for this kind of problem other than fitting a spacer to the braces? or is there an after market down pipe out there that has a large diameter and yet gives enough clearance without adding spacers?

or is this what everybody does??

the noise only came after a few weeks of fitting the pipe

thanks for the help everyone

i would really love to avoid using spacers so any additional thoughts would be greatly appreciated, thanks

 

Order the cool "Borg Cubes" from Vishnu. They are little hardened aluminum block spacers that go into the lateral braces. You will need 5 of them and the five longer bolts. They work great. Unfortunately, the braces will be about 3/4 of an inch closer to the ground after the install, but not a problem.

I was going to recommend you get them from Al at Dynoflash but then I remembered that he doens't make anything.

 

Yea, the spacers work really well. I've been using them for about 4 months with no scrapping issues at all. Plus they give you good clearance for about any brand of down pipe.

 

I bought RMR downpipe and RMR brace and the DP still hit the brace underload going over a bump. Cheap solution.... Bend it a little more. Works fine

 

wont that effect the cars handling in any way? i mean adding spacers or even bending the braces?

thats my main concern

 

I have noticed no ill effects to handling with the spacers. There pretty solid peices with a good grade of bolt. This same issue was discussed at length over on the Vishnu boards some time ago with a much better explaination than I could give. I think people were concerned about deflection in the spacer/bolt itself or something like that, but theres no way, the spacer has a large surface area and its less than an inch thick. Its as solid as stock in my opinion. Now actually bending the tie bars themselves, like someone else suggested my be a different story, that seems like it could mess some **** up.

 

your bending the bar by roughly 1/2 in to 3/4. In now way will you ever notice a handling decrease unless you have spyer man sense

 

well i was suggested with bending the braces as well but still id prefer to keep things stock just incase i wanna go back to original setup

might as well go for spacers then no other solution

thanks everyone

 

The Buschur downpipe fits without spacers(but they do put some in if you want to use them)

 

my downpipe fits also without spacers

if u mean there no knocking with the buschur downpipe now thats a different story!

 

B&B 3" DP fits with no spacers, no knocking ever.

 

I just installed the Helix DP. No knocking on lower braces.
Gruppe-S recommends adding spacers but I don't think it is needed. there's still a lot of room between the DP and downpipe after installation. I think these will even clear the thick Cusco lower arm bar ver1 and ver2.

you can find more info and pix about this dp here: https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...threadid=56897

 

RuckerPark, that was exactly what i was looking for

Thanks for the help everyone!