Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General General Ruh-oh, something broke!

It appears that right behind my CAT, there is a join that connects the rest of the exhaust pipe and goes to the muffler etc. Well, two bolts broke and that front half of my exhaust system is dragging on the ground.

What is this part called? I was trying to describe the problem to a tech and he thought i was smoking crack....

I need help, my car sounds like a frigging freight train right now.

Maybe this would be a good time to upgrade the exhaust..

Can anyone share what that peice is called or what I should tell the tech before I drive the damn thing in?

That would be the CAT-back flange. If the bolts broke it shouldn't be anything a decent shop can't fix for cheap. Just him/them that the flange that connects your cat-back to the front of the system has broke loose. Good Luck.

BTW, shoot me an email and I'll send you a pic of that area of the exhaust.

very comman problem, ( at least in the north east), should'nt cost you more than 20-30 bucks as long as the flanges are ok from dragging

Just run open headers! Hillbilly style!

I would go hill-billy style, except I can't really hear my new "Creed" CD with the way the engine sounds.. /sigh

Thanks for the input. I shall have the "flange" replaced.

That happened to me recently - get it fixed ASAP! Don't be a dumbass like me who thought it would be cool to drive around a few days with a loud exhaust and ended up having to get the oil pan replaced because the part that was dragging got caught in a ridge in the road while backing up, forcing the exhaust into the oil pan and puncturing it. Not only that, but I had to get the pan replaced a second time because the first one that I got from the wreckers had a hairline crack. And to top it all off, having the dealership tell me that the engine needed to be replaced to the tune of $4000 (and later retracting it saying the tech had misdiagnosed a noise after I informed them that the only way the motor could've been run with no oil was while it was in their possession) and you can see this was not a pleasant ordeal.

At the very least, get under your car and use solid-core wiring in the bolt holes of the flange to hold the front part of the exhaust to the back so that it is no longer dragging.