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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > . . 10/13/2016 at 04:30

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I really hope this is satire

Alfalfa > . . 10/13/2016 at 04:55

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Well that’s certainly something I’ve never thought of before. And I’m going to say that’s a good thing.

shop-teacher > . . 10/13/2016 at 06:53

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Because nothing sounds meaner than a big ass leak!

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > shop-teacher 10/13/2016 at 08:25

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As someone who currently drives a car with an exhaust leak, I can confirm that the sound has the effect of making me hate it more and more. Mean people have the same response, so I guess it’s the same thing???

shop-teacher > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 10/13/2016 at 09:18

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Sounds about right. My ‘74 Buick Apollo had a small exhaust leak the entire eight years I had it. It was annoying, but not annoying enough to make me fix it.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > . . 10/13/2016 at 09:30

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On a family trip to Florida, our Aerostar developed an exhaust leak. Brought it home to NJ and dropped it at the shop. Mechanic calls us midway through the day.

“[PBJoe], I have good news and bad news. The good news is we fixed the exhaust leak pretty cheaply, it was the flex-pipe that went bad. The bad news, the van sounds nowhere near as cool.”

Charlie was a good mechanic.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > . . 10/13/2016 at 09:33

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My Niva kept doing that. Shook the nuts off the flange bolts no matter what I did, lock washer, double nut, until I said screw it and jammed a distorted-thread nut on there. Then it just broke the flange right off...

CobraJoe > . . 10/13/2016 at 09:43

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On the Legacy GT forums, it’s called a Hogzaust.

There is a flange right before each muffler, so you’re creating a controlled exhaust leak right near the end of the exhaust. Supposedly it gives a bit more sound without sounding like an exhaust leak.

Still sounds like a stupid thing to do.

brianbrannon > . . 10/13/2016 at 11:14

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Wut?

Justino6969 > . . 10/14/2016 at 00:27

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My Jeep has a hole right after the cat before the muffler where the O2 sensor was messed up. I ordered some exhaust paste and need to put that on. Should sound a little better afterwards.

That spacer is a hilarious idea. A terrible, hilarious, idea.

Nauraushaun > CobraJoe 10/16/2016 at 16:18

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That’s because every Subaru sounds like it has an exhaust leak