Exhaust Support

[marshall9]

Who still makes the exhaust support(s)? I mean the ones that support the exhaust tail
section.....with the spring tension on the top, so the headers can still move

[Hawke]

I always take my welder to the track and am often called to fix things. One thing I have noticed, is that I never have to weld cracked exhausts that have no rear support. I only weld ones that are supported.

I took the support off my car many years ago, and it rarely has any cracks. When it was supported, I was fixing it every other meeting.

Draw your own conclusions.

[Steve Demeter]

If it is supported, everything has to be just right.

There must be a bit of a loose fit at the header junction to the collector.

The support needs to hole the tail pipe more or less in the middle of that looseness.

Then the spring can not be too tight.

My Citation has a support that fulle encircles the tail pipe. The bottom and sides are in the loose area and the piece over the top is a bit loose on the tailpipe. Works fine and never had a cracked pipe.

But you have to get it just so.


YMMV

[mwizard]

Good to hear this. I was just noticing that the strap with a spring to my muffler is a bit loose. It flexes where the 4 pipes fit into 2. So, I am going to leave this action in place.
Mark