Dyno test - Buddy club Pro-Spec Exhaust

[justinfox]

ROLLED: Can I ask if you have an aftermarket cat, or headers? And have you ever been hit from the rear?

We took the time out this morning to take my exhaust off and to put a brand new Spec IV on (very nice looking exhaust BTW! I'd say it looks nicer than my dual!) and the exhaust is not hanging as low as yours at all. AND my car is lowered quite a lot. This is leading us to think that your mechanic has installed it wrong OR you might have been hit from the rear and something has been bent, forcing the exhaust down lower OR you have an aftermarket cat/headers which have forced the joint to be lower.

Please reply with more facts. Our pics of this install will be up shortly.

[ROLLED]

Nope never been hit from the rear, the exhaust was installed professionally by an exhaust shop, I have the stock headers and cat. This exhaust has been scraping since day one btw...and as far as I am aware there is only 1 way to install this exhaust?

The only thing that really comes to mind is that it was manufactured incorrectly as I can't imagine any company designing an exhaust that would deliberately sit this low!

I am more then happy to get it checked out by any one of your certified mechanics in Melbourne. I was also told that you had no BuddyClub Spec IV exhausts in the country???????

I think that Buddyclub should replace the exhaust entirely because this is the second problem I've had with the exhaust. The first one, was from a hanger that broke from the exhaust, I was then supplied with the hanger for a WRX exhaust which needed custom fabrication to work on the S2000, which I paid for out of my own pocket. I am going to PM you my number.

This is a picture of my car to prove it's also on stock suspension with stock springs, i.e. stock ride height

[dc2dc2dc2]

rolled i thought u did have an incident with ur rear end at a cruise yonkers ago ?

[justinfox]

It's a tough call - many aftermarket headers hang down a lot lower than stock headers do and people scrape these aftermarket headers on things. It's a give and take in those situations as the aftermarket performance parts are usually a lot bigger in diameter than stock parts.

It's true that this model of Buddy club exhaust does hang down lower than the stock item but it makes more power and it's a lot lighter than the stock part too.

If you did scrape this exhaust for a good part of a year then by all means it will get damaged. Whether or not the damage caused by scraping is covered under warranty is what I am looking into right now. If it was a manufacturing defect, there would be no questions in a replacement, but this is the way this exhaust has been designed (you could argue it's not a great design, that is another story).

It's clear with a rim, that if you were to scrape it on a gutter, that warranty would not replace your rim. The same could be applied to this exhaust, in that if you were to scrape it on driveways and speed humps, then you are damaging the exhaust yourself and thus it wouldn't be replaced under warranty.

ROLLED: I'll talk to the Buddy club team and do the best I can to offer you some sort of resolution, as you're obviously not happy. Thanks for the PM. I have your number and will call you with more news ASAP.

[ROLLED]

rolled i thought u did have an incident with ur rear end at a cruise yonkers ago ?

1. That was before I got the exhaust

2. That had nothing to do with the exhaust/exhaust mounts

3. Motorware are the shittest sprayers in the world...not even 10 months and the paint on both bars their did for me have started cracking, they did not sand back the bar and prep it properly. Lucky for them I have other plans with the car and don't need to have them touch it again. DO NOT GO TO MOTORWARE!!! (dc2dc2dc2, aren't u friends with the painter?? ask him why he did such a shit job please and PM ME)

back on topic...

[mugsee]

I know for a fact that all Buddy Club Spec 3 exhausts for DC5R's are built with the design flaw of having the top of the b-pipe sit lower than the rest of the chasis, hence why most DC5R spec 3's scrape around the neck.

Everyone I know who owns one accepts this fact and will more than likely scrape their exhaust even with the stock AUDM DC5R ride height, however if Buddy Club are handing out free exhausts, show me where to sign up...

</sarcasm>

[aznsiko]

that looks hot bro.. i wouldnt mind the power gain but the droning.. cant stand it so i think ill just stick with standard for now lol.. but good stuff..

[yourfather]

you've smashed your rear before.

the guy that did the paint work on ur car at motorware did work on their widebody chargespeed s2000. which was in autosalon magazine.

[ROLLED]

yourfather, If you remember the pictures you'll also remember that they did not affect the exhaust mountings nor did it have any structural damage. It was purely superficial damage.

and please don't get me started on the guy who painted my car from motorware, I am quite aware of what cars he has painted, I can show anyone in real life how "off" my bumpers are, not only are they off, Motorware did not fully sand back my bumpers and now they paint is cracking and falling off on both the front and rear bumpers...I have been advised by professionals that this is due to too many layers of paint on the bar. They charged me prices for a full respray of the bars, yet they only painted over the existing yellow.

[DC5TYPER]

Do you plan on putting on the Buddyclub AP1 Headers on aswell and reviewing them?

I would like to hear a review on them. I've recently purchased a AP1 and would like a bit of info on these headers Buddyclub have to offer, as well as combination with the buddyclub exhausts!

Cheers

[yourfather]

yourfather, If you remember the pictures you'll also remember that they did not affect the exhaust mountings nor did it have any structural damage. It was purely superficial damage.

and please don't get me started on the guy who painted my car from motorware, I am quite aware of what cars he has painted, I can show anyone in real life how "off" my bumpers are, not only are they off, Motorware did not fully sand back my bumpers and now they paint is cracking and falling off on both the front and rear bumpers...I have been advised by professionals that this is due to too many layers of paint on the bar. They charged me prices for a full respray of the bars, yet they only painted over the existing yellow.

well, that is truely disappointing. I would feel the same as you in this case.

I though that you got an AP2 bar for the rear.

from the buddy club products I have on my car though, I haven't had any issues with build quality.

[ROLLED]

I have the AP2 front and rear bars, from a 2006 model painted originally in yellow, the bumpers had only been on the previous car for 500kms/3 days...