I just noticed that kartboy now has exhaust hangers for the Protege. Last time I had checked they were still in development. Has anyone ordered these or am I the first one to notice these?

I ran a search on this forum and the other one but found nothing.

Link

 

Do they have muffler bearings too?

Sorry, I just can't see the need to upgrade my exhaust hangers.

 

What the heck is a muffler bearing?

Some people have voiced concerns that their muffler moved around too much while driving. Although its more of an aesthetic mod as far as I can see, it is related to the drivetrain.

Oh, and thanks for telling me you don't want to upgrade your exhaust hangers. I didn't care.

 

Are there any actual pics of these hangers? Is all they do replace the 2 stock rubber ones for the muffler section?

 

The link mentions that it comes with 4 hangers.

 

I have Cobb Tuning's aftermarket
exhaust hangers on the rear of my P5. I found that the stock ones were a bit too weak for my cat-back exhaust, and the tailpipe shook around a lot.

The Cobb hangers have helped the situation, and I'm thinking about installing them in the front, too (near the cat), although I doubt those will make much more of an impact.

The holes on the Cobb hangers are slightly closer together than Mazda's, meaning that it holds the exhaust pipe a bit higher, but we're talking about a sixteenth of an inch here. The holes are also bigger, meaning they don't fit as snugly on the mounts, but I haven't had a problem with them slipping off or anything.

 

Muffler bearings? LOL! Don't forget to top up your blinker fluid!

 

OK, so I ordered the Kartboy exhaust hangers. They're good.

About six months ago, I got an aftermarket exhaust (from Team Moon), and I found that there was significant vibration and movement of the new pipes and muffler using the stock exhaust mounts. So I went to www.cobbtuning.com and bought a pair of upgraded mounts, which were actually designed for the Subaru WRX. I put those at the rear (muffler), and they made a bit of an improvement.

So much of an improvement, in fact, that I decided to replace the ones near the front (by the catalytic converter) with Cobb Tuning hangers.

But then I read this thread and became aware of Kartboy's product. Since their price for four was about the same as Cobb's price for two, I decided to get the Kartboy ones.

So I took the stock mounts off the front (near the cat) and the Cobb ones off the rear (near the muffler) and replaced them all with the Kartboy ones. What a difference! There's very little movement or vibration now, even on downshifts, where the problem had been the worst. An irritating resonance that kicked in near 3500RPM is now lessened, but still noticible.

My pair of Cobb Tuning mounts will be for sale on eBay soon, unless somebody here makes an offer first.

 

Kartboy sent me two mounts with 12mm holes and two with 10mm holes. I wasn't sure which ones went where, so I put the 10's on the rear and the 12's on the front, but I think I got it backwards. The stock mounts appear to have slightly smaller holes on the front, so that's probably where the 10's go.

That, plus the fact that it was nearly impossible to get one of the 10's on the rear imply that the 12's go on the back. However, now that I've got them in place, I don't plan to move them.

 

Pics Dewey!

 

Well, there's nothing to see from behind the car. You've got to get underneath. And what you see underneath is not all that impressive. Nevertheless, I shall try to snap some pics later today.

I'm not real excited to go crawling underneath my car today, because the weather in Cleveland is complete crap.

 

Well, they ain't great pictures, but here are two shots of the rearmost hanger -- off the muffler toward the rear bumper.


Pic1

Pic2

 

I used them on my WRX Wagon, and made a nice improvement in keeping both my Stromung (later Prodrive, as in the pics below) exhaust from shaking all over the place. I will be upgrading to these on the P5, as the RB catback is way too loose with the stock rubber mounts.

 

No time like the present... just ordered a set of 4!

 

wtf is a rex?