Hi, long time lurker and a first time poster and thought I'd wet my feet with this one.
I've got a similar problem at the moment, where at 2.5k revs it sounds like the exhaust will shake itself apart. No problem I thought lets just go and beat that heatshield into submission. Unfortunately after getting the car up on a ramp and having a butchers I discover that whatever muppet had my 323f before me had managed to shear off 2 of the studs on the exhaust manifold. This inturn caused the entire pipe to shake itself when it hit a certain rev level.
At the moment the car is in a very friendly garage having said studs removed and new ones put in. Just to make matters that little bit worse however is that I've just been told that the pillock at prospeed in cardiff that put the long life exhaust on (before I bought the car) had ground down the connecting plate on the front section so thin that it is likely to fall apart soon, meaning new front section needed too.
Anyone know how much I should be looking at for the cost of a new front section of exhaust for a 1.5 323f '96?
