[N54 TuNeR]

The rubber isolator(which is S**t) that comes with HPF gen 2 exhaust,mine is gone and can I simple use a threaded rod and nuts ,spacer and fully tighten it?i was worried about no play with the exhaust heats up it expands,would I hurt the exhaust or put excess stress on the single turbo manifold/turbo(top mount) if doing this.i do notice the exhaust expands.what is everyone with this exhaust doing with out the isolator?

[Gennosuke]

Originally Posted by N54 TuNeR

The rubber isolator(which is S**t) that comes with HPF gen 2 exhaust,mine is gone and can I simple use a threaded rod and nuts ,spacer and fully tighten it?i was worried about no play with the exhaust heats up it expands,would I hurt the exhaust or put excess stress on the single turbo manifold/turbo(top mount) if doing this.i do notice the exhaust expands.what is everyone with this exhaust doing with out the isolator?

Not sure if you ever resolve this. Same thing happened to mine when I had the HPF exhaust on my car...the rubber isolator ripped in half. You can subsitute it with a rubber exhaust hanger (you should have a few under the car after u removed the stock exhaust and switched to the hpf)....this worked perfectly on mine for over 2 years without issues.