Exhaust Intall causing Problems????

[MLGstang]

Friday I had my exhaust installed (MRT Axleback) and love the sound. It is deeper like Flowmasters but seem a little louder similar to Loudmouths.

However, this weekend I have noticed that the center council and shifter area feel very warm. When they installed the mufflers they dropped the exhaust at the cats for more room to manouver the mufflers off. I got under the car and the bolts on the hose clamps are tight, heat shield seems to be okay.

I dont know if this is typical with aftermarket exhuast as this is my first one.
Could this be something trans related. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
Matt

 

[gp001]

Something doesn't sound right. Why in the world would they drop the exhaust to do an axle bak? They are either very incompetent, or they were up to something. I did my axle backs in less than an hour with the car just up on ramps. You can read my write up in the Technical Write Up section, or on my website

http://www.2mfffabshop.com/axlbck.htm

 

[MLGstang]

Maybe I can help paint the picture a little better.
The car was up in the back on a jack. He just unbolted the exhaust at the cats so he had some play in the pipe to help slide the muffler off.

 

[gp001]

And something about that aint right. Here is a pic of how high I had mine (rear on ramps). All you do is unbolt the hangers, unbolt the clamp and they rotate right off. No clearance issues at all.

 

[delurker]

My car is lowered and I still didn't need to lift it to replace the mufflers. Would have made it a little easier I'm sure, but not absolutely necessary.

 

[REDFIRE 05 GT]

The JBA instructions say to loosen the exhaust clamps at the factory H-Pipe, this is needed so you can move the pipes where they come over the axle.

 

[bigcat]

my console is hot too. i have flowmasters, but the hot console was always there. i posted about it a while back, heres the response....http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=550623&highlight=hot+console

 

[MLGstang]

Thanks for all the comments guys, I appreciate the help.

 

[stangbeast]

is the pipe touching anythins it shouldent?, is exhaust gases escaping somewhere? those could be the answers


p.s. nothing on earth is similar to a loudmouth