Are the Pypes Violator axle back mufflers turbo or chambered? American Muscle has them listed as chambered and Summit has them as turbo.
I need to order some mufflers ASAP, this stock exhaust is getting on my nerves. It's doo damn quiet.
That 1" stainless band clamp has a cast spacer in the center of it. If it gets caught crooked, you can tighten all you want and it won't compress the pipe. Sounds like that's what happened.Got the Pypes axle back and they look pretty good. Actually they look like very good quality pipes and tips. Took the stock mufflers off, slipped the pypes on loosely and got a game plan of how to make the tips line up correctly. The driver's side didn't look too bad (little low) so I figured "oh well" I'll clamp it on and make the passenger side match.. maybe I'll have to loosen the factory clamps and re-adjust. Long story short, the Pypes pipes are very loose on the factory pipes and the band clamps will not tighten up. I used a 6 point socket with a 1/2 inch ratchet and the clamps will not crimp the pipes. Finally I put my foot on the tire and pulled in the ratchet,.... snaped the bolt off. Now I have a car with no exhaust.
I'm puting the factory exhaust back on and ordering something else.
It wasn't the spacer in the clamp, it was going down in the saddles of the spacer just fine. The problem is the sloppy fit of the pipes. They are 1/8 inch larger that the stock Ford pipes and can't compress enough to even hold themselves on let alone create a leak free joint. As you can see from this picture the slit in the pipe is completely closed, even overlapped itself, and the pipe still fell off with a jiggle. If I'm overlooking something please let me know because it sure would be nice to get these to work.
Thats wierd. I think you must have undersized overaxle pipes. Have you owned the car since new? They were never changed? If the Pypes won't fit then I doubt any aftermarkets will. The violators had a nice tight slip fit on my 2009.