Omfg!!!!!!!!!

[derspi]

I think its mostly that it was a new part. I took it out again today, and almost no smell at all

Don't worry about the smell, it's because the RP has some coating or oil on it from production. It will go away in a few days, this is normal so there's really no need to take it to an exhaust shop.

As for the dent you caused because you left the jack under the passenger footwell area, not much I can say except lesson learned, you probably didn't do any major damage so long as you managed to hammer out the dent.

 

[StealthWyvern]

Strawberry or custard?

lmao i didnt catch that.

 

[wisniaPl]

how can yo smell gas with just rp?? only time I smeled gas fumes it was when I was runnning dp rp and straight pipe catback(******* loud just like srt4 with side exhaust) with stock catback I dont smell any fumes.....

 

[bigdaddy]

lmao i didnt catch that.

he highlighted tart in retarted...because i managed to spell retarded wrong

 

[bigdaddy]

Don't worry about the smell, it's because the RP has some coating or oil on it from production. It will go away in a few days, this is normal so there's really no need to take it to an exhaust shop.

As for the dent you caused because you left the jack under the passenger footwell area, not much I can say except lesson learned, you probably didn't do any major damage so long as you managed to hammer out the dent.

i drove the car a few times... it drove the same, but yeah def. lesson learned

 

[peeaanuut]

i had one bolt stick on me when taking the 2nd cat out. We hit it with BP and everything. COuldnt get it out. So we just hack sawed it out of there. No leaks and no smell for me yet. Bummer about the jackstand incident, but as others have said, lesson learned. I always make sure and dbl check under the car before I drop the jack.

 

[bigdaddy]

i had one bolt stick on me when taking the 2nd cat out. We hit it with BP and everything. COuldnt get it out. So we just hack sawed it out of there. No leaks and no smell for me yet. Bummer about the jackstand incident, but as others have said, lesson learned. I always make sure and dbl check under the car before I drop the jack.

yeah I had one of the longer things that the bolt/spring combo attaches to get stuck in there and we wiggled the hell outta the CBE till we got it out

 

[BillTheCat]

Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I was teaching a friend of mine how to change the oil in her MINI a couple of months ago. Her car is lowered to the point that we had to slide the scissor jack under to jack it up a few inches, then put a regular floor jack under it and jack it up, then set it down on the driveway ramps.

Anyhow, after we were done, we had to jack the car up off the ramps, pull the ramps, then slowly drop the car down again. Just as we got the car low enough to think about switching from the floor jack to the scissor jack, the car fell off the floor jack & the floor jack ended up embedded 3 inches into her John Cooper Works (MINI's answer to Mazdaspeed/TRD/Nismo, etc.) side skirt on the driver's side. Shattered that sucker.

Why? Because her garage is tiled and there are 12" carpet patches glued down where the wheels of the car go when she parks. (Don't ask me why) And the jack was sitting partially on the carpet, which kept it from slowly inching out from under the car as the car lowered, the way it should. The lateral pressure built & eventually the jack point snapped (plastic jack point held to frame rail with a small bolt) and the car dropped. Came within about 1/8" of crushing the bottom of the driver's door.

I'm just glad nobody was under the darned car.

 

[StealthWyvern]

Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I was teaching a friend of mine how to change the oil in her MINI a couple of months ago. Her car is lowered to the point that we had to slide the scissor jack under to jack it up a few inches, then put a regular floor jack under it and jack it up, then set it down on the driveway ramps.

Anyhow, after we were done, we had to jack the car up off the ramps, pull the ramps, then slowly drop the car down again. Just as we got the car low enough to think about switching from the floor jack to the scissor jack, the car fell off the floor jack & the floor jack ended up embedded 3 inches into her John Cooper Works (MINI's answer to Mazdaspeed/TRD/Nismo, etc.) side skirt on the driver's side. Shattered that sucker.

Why? Because her garage is tiled and there are 12" carpet patches glued down where the wheels of the car go when she parks. (Don't ask me why) And the jack was sitting partially on the carpet, which kept it from slowly inching out from under the car as the car lowered, the way it should. The lateral pressure built & eventually the jack point snapped (plastic jack point held to frame rail with a small bolt) and the car dropped. Came within about 1/8" of crushing the bottom of the driver's door.

I'm just glad nobody was under the darned car.

Does not sound like fun at all. And yet another reason to never jack up your car on a slanted surface unless you have to.

 

[BillTheCat]

Does not sound like fun at all. And yet another reason to never jack up your car on a slanted surface unless you have to.

Don't know how you picked up slant from that story. Dead level flat garage floor with laminate tile. It was the carpet patch that caused the problem, not allowing the jack to inch back as it was lowered.

And yeah, no fun at all.

 

[StealthWyvern]

Don't know how you picked up slant from that story. Dead level flat garage floor with laminate tile. It was the carpet patch that caused the problem, not allowing the jack to inch back as it was lowered.

And yeah, no fun at all.

lol i was refering to my driveway

 

[Bonafide_Spd3]

My SU test pipe smelled really bad after install and had smoke a couple of times. I think it was the chemicals they sprayed in the pipe when i got it. Haven't had that problem 6 months