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any advice on the particulates sticking to my hatch? It is pretty uniformly spread across the entire back side of my car
Extend the tips out a bit? I'm catless and running this exhaust on a CW car and don't have any of the spots you have.
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Extend the tips out a bit? I'm catless and running this exhaust on a CW car and don't have any of the spots you have.
I’ll give it a go, that was my initial thought. I appreciate the feedback.

Could you post a pic looking down at the top of the tips? I had my system installed at AWE headquarters so they put the tips at their recommended location.
 

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I’ll give it a go, that was my initial thought. I appreciate the feedback.

Could you post a pic looking down at the top of the tips? I had my system installed at AWE headquarters so they put the tips at their recommended location.
I had to screenshot one of my videos, but here ya go!

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I love this group... everyone is so cool about jumping in to help. If I could give forums an award, this crew would get it. ????
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do you have any residue that shows up on the back of your hatch?
Nada. The middle tip gets dirty quick though. Here's a pic of min underneath...nothing I could see.

I'm tuned also...not sure that matters lol

 

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I have driven the car over 3k miles since having it installed and the black residue has been consistently showing up the entire time. I also have it building up on the muffler but was told by AWE that this is normal

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I have the same thing on pretty much every place where there is a clamp, mines probably much worse than yours, I have like 9k miles on the exhaust though. Its somewhat of a leak but its negligible. When it rains or when there is condensation inside of exhaust, it mixes with carbon deposits and leaks out of the connections. As long as you don't hear any exhaust leaks its fine. A way to fix this though is to take it all apart, clean the joining sections, and apply some exhaust sealer around the pipes and re-clamp them with some new clamps. That should prevent the water from leaking through.
 

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I took the exhaust tip clamp off, cleaned around the joint and put it back on, the carbon buildup is still happening around the clamp. I looked at the design a bit more and I’m wondering if the opening on the clamp is too close to the slits in the pipe, does anybody have a picture of where the bolt on their clamp is oriented? Right now my bolt is at 9 o’clock and perpendicular with the ground, might try rotating it so the bolt rests at 6 o clock and parallel with the ground.

Looking for any feedback

(this is the same pic as before)

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I took the exhaust tip clamp off, cleaned around the joint and put it back on, the carbon buildup is still happening around the clamp. I looked at the design a bit more and I’m wondering if the opening on the clamp is too close to the slits in the pipe, does anybody have a picture of where the bolt on their clamp is oriented? Right now my bolt is at 9 o’clock and perpendicular with the ground, might try rotating it so the bolt rests at 6 o clock and parallel with the ground.

Looking for any feedback

(this is the same pic as before)

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I can't see the whole exhaust tip, but from the pic it looks like it's leaking from outside the exhaust tip and then running back. So it's not leaking from a bad connection or clamp.

Do you have your car parked outside?
 

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Had the touring version installed for about a year (8k miles) and I've just started to hear some rattling from the back of the car whenever I'm letting go of the throttle at 35+ mph speeds after I've driven for 10-15 minutes. Anyone had this issue? Wondering if I should take it into my local shop and get everything reassembled to make sure it's sitting correctly.
 

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Had the touring version installed for about a year (8k miles) and I've just started to hear some rattling from the back of the car whenever I'm letting go of the throttle at 35+ mph speeds after I've driven for 10-15 minutes. Anyone had this issue? Wondering if I should take it into my local shop and get everything reassembled to make sure it's sitting correctly.
It's not uncommon for the need to arise to retorque the clamps after break-in. If you have access to a lift, you can check alignment and for proper fitment at this time.

Rattling in the back is likely from the system making contact due to the slip-fits not being properly bottomed out.

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