Car sounds like an open header car

[Jean]

Driving down 50 it started sounding like an open header car, woohoo.

Off to fix it, if you are bored guess what it was. :p

[Bimmerista]

Exhaust leak just below the headers?

[fretburnr]

ripped off the center section?

[Julien]

hmm.. i've had downpipes break clean off the exhaust manifold in a 4cyl BMW before.

[Hick]

broken exhaust manifold stud [stud from head]

[fretburnr]

hmm.. i've had downpipes break clean off the exhaust manifold in a 4cyl BMW before.

i had one of my stock downtubes get pulled out of the flange at the collector on my m20.

[Turf1600]

Broke at the flange because you are a n00b and didn't hang it right

[fretburnr]

Broke at the flange because you are a n00b and didn't hang it right

talking to me?

I didn't hang it. Lame ass exhaust shop did and used extra hangers to adjust the position of the piping.

[Jean]

Not a single correct answer

The o2 sensor felt like it didn't want to be attached to the car anymore, RIP.

[Hick]

ba, my guess is pretty common. Infact, some S14s have had exhaust studs back out over the years.

[backtrail69]

My 2002 had the center section fall off the header from rust about 4 years ago. That was a fun one. I had to wire it up and drive home with a header.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yesterday I was gonna say o2 sensor, but I didnt want to look like a n00b because it dose not always sound like open headers with it leaking out the bung.

[Jean]

Looks like one of the exhaust studs is also missing, and possibly a crack on the stock exhaust manifold wooohooo

[Hick]

Looks like one of the exhaust studs is also missing, and possibly a crack on the stock exhaust manifold wooohooo

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT NOW?!?!?!?!?!?1

[Sean]

I had that happen to the old red Eta I used to drive - downpipes literally just broke right off the rest of the exhaust. One night, was leaving downtown, and all of a sudden my car sounded SO DAMN LOUD! I was driving around downtown Boise, and people were racing me. LOL It was ungodly annoying.