How bad does everyone else's underside look? I was changing my M/T and Diff fluids today and noticed how scratched up my underside was. Is my Y-pipe damaged to the extent of needing a new one or is that hole ok? My OEM cats are scratched a fair amount as well...just wondering how everyone else deals with lowered cars and their exhausts being damaged.

 

My y pipe looks worse than that, gonna be replacing it soon because I'm pretty sure its leaking. As long as its not leaking your Y-Pipe is ok.

I swapped my cats out a couple weeks ago for TPs:


Bottom of my bumper is scrapped as well on the front corners. Had to reinforce it with fiberglass after I wore a hole through it....LOL. My RareJDM aluminum underpanel is scraped as well on its lowest point.

 

that y pipe looks great compared to mine. my cats looks like marcus's cats.

 

I don't have flex pipes anymore... but some how they don't leak....

 

Alright cool, mine doesn't seem to bad then...Just thinking about buying art pipes and then an exhaust later on and don't want to damaged them to bad..

 

^I considered ART pipes but decided against them because of the cost and the possibility that I would jack them up from being so low.

 

didnt someone make their Y fully solid and now they dont deal with the flex part and it works fine?

 

^^yes.

 

Removing the flex pipes is something I'm considering right now. In the interim I have an extra y-pipe laying around cause I knew I'd eventually mess mine up.

 

ditch the ypipe and run a xpipe

 

This is what being low did to my first Z Speed undertray:



I have also rubbed the head off a bolt on my new one and my cats look just like Marcus'. The funny part is I'm not THAT low but have to deal with 2 parking garages that have insane entrances for work and if I don't go over completely sideways it's game over.

 

my nismo ypipe was scraped pretty bad n it was leaking at the flexs. So i cut the flex part out n welded a custom pipe onto it, so now i can scrape all i want lol.

 

I wish it was just scrape.
I smack my cross member to the floor, over every bump, and on highway dips every chance I get.

Anyone here every had to change their crossmember? I dont know how long mine will hold up.

 

this custom pipe job looks killer man! good work

 

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