Exhaust Tip Angle

[F8L BIT3]

Anyone have experience adjusting the angle on the Corsa exhaust system? Mine seem to have rotated down and are resting on the sill. Just making sure it's nothing too time consuming before I pull the sills and try to get it corrected.

-Nate

[Steve-Indy]

The techs I know carefully position the tips, then do a little tack welding to maintain that position.

[Steve M]

What Steve said is right on the money (you should always trust a guy named Steve BTW). You can either really cinch down the exhaust clamp, which may or may not work, or you can get them in place and tack the clamp to the exhaust which will keep it clocked right where you want it at the expense of having to grind the tack weld(s) if/when you need to adjust or remove the exhaust in the future.

FWIW, I've not run into that issue with the stock exhaust, but it is fairly common with the Corsa.

[Mamba003]

And make sure you address quickly or it will melt the flat paint around the side sill.

[FrgMstr]

Corsa is almost impossible to keep where you want those. A tack weld as described above is the easiest. You can clamp them tight enough, but you will spend a lot of time with a dead blow hammer if you ever want those off again. I speak from experience. I put V-bands on mine as I like to change out straights pipes from time to time. You can see the Corsa exhaust in the background with Random cats and V-band setup.

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[F8L BIT3]

Thanks for the responses. Looks like I have a bit of work to do.

[FIVESTAR]

That’s sad. Sell them, and I’ll build you an exhaust and include a jig to have them lines up perfectly the first time.