Got my exhaust done!

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Aaaand here's the video:

[video]http://youtu.be/WHBXn-VbjZw[/video]

Holy hell, that video tag makes that easy. Anyways, that's the beast as she sits right now...just welded up a flange to the melon cannon, popped it on, warmed up the car and shot the video on my phone. Used a bar clamp to steady the phone, lol. I really like the throaty sound it makes, and it's got this furious roar when you open it up.

:love: the sound a 7M makes!

That's an all-stock 7M, stock turbo and elbow, 3" mandrel downpipe, 3" non-mandrel catback, no cats, and the melon cannon. Now I'm just waiting for the rain to clear up so I can finish mounting it all up and get to work on my hub, door and bodywork!
 
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Luckily (or un-, depends how you look at it) I have the opportunity to change the bodywork due to an accident. Which means I'm going to attempt to revert to stock tails, if I ever get around to sourcing a set of Euro 89+ pieces.
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I may just do acrylic laid in with the fiberglass...but I need to get a sheet or two and try some things. I have the stuff and the know-how, I just don't want to rush job it and have to do it twice.
 
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Glad to hear you're in one piece after the accident. Yes, your car is warmed up, but you're low on coolant...
 
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I've isolated that to either a bad sensor or a short in my cluster. I can fill it with coolant, and the light will turn on a few seconds after starting the motor. It makes me paranoid about BHG, even though it never burns coolant or goes above 1/2 on the temp gauge. I've even gone so far as to put a thermocouple on my good multimeter and drop it in the overflow...never goes above 220 or so when running.

Believe me, noone's as glad as I am that I'm still in one piece after that accident. I'm pretty sure what caused it all was a front lower ball joint not being torqued correctly, as the hub I removed had a stretched mounting point right there where it broke. Compared to the one I swapped in, there's no way in hell that stretching occurred all in one moment; the mounting hole is almost twice as long as it is wide when I put the two pieces together. Also, that nut was nowhere near 72 ft-lbs when I went to take it off, so...lesson learned: check torque on everything suspension when you buy a used car. Especially 20+ year old Japanese supercars.
 
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