Check your ground clearance!!

As you all know, I had an off track excursion that took me out for the weekend. First off, two things, I went way too fast out of that banked turn on bone cold tires in a real bad spot (the ledge on 7-8). The thing that I could not figure out is why the car behaved the way it did, slinging me to the other side of the track. I've put two off plenty of times and never had anything close to that happen. Upon further examination of the car I found the reason. First photo is of the culvert I bottomed out on the others are of the damage and the last ones are the trans tunnel brace that caught the pavement causing the whole thing. The last is the difference between the stock tunnel brace and the tubular one.


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Good thing you're switching back to stock. I may have not run long but I've lost count how many times I've ridden over curbs with the transmission mount lol.

At TWS last year I smushed the driver's side of my y-pipe because the muffler shop that made it had it sticking out below the K-member. A much better shop near the house cut it out and tucked it nice and tight between the k-member and oil pan. The rest of the exhaust tucks up nice and high close to the floor pan and isn't the lowest point on the car. No problems since!

If you need a muffler shop to help get u setup with a good clearance exhaust hit up Ripley's Muffler & Brakes in spring.