beer cans and wire

so we were cruising down I 95 when all of a sudden the engine gets super loud and there is an awful dragging noise. i pull over and we peak under the car to find this looking back at us :)

now we have had an exhaust leak for quite some time but it wasnt bad and there wasnt much we could do about it. the thing was cracking at the weld joint and today it finally failed. being as we couldnt leave the pipe there and we couldnt drive with it dragging on the ground i set to work with some wire i had in my box of goodies. we picked up a budwiser beer can from the side of the road and wired it onto the pipe in hopes of it making the poor car just a little less loud.

i pulled a tire off to get a little more room to work and while looking at the tire i noticed a really bad wear patch on the outside. the outside of the tire is more or less bald all the way around, likey due to some toe in from the tie rod ends being loose or the suspension being bent from my other adventures with this poor car. sadly i think we are going to have to drive on this tire till it blows out from baldness because we cant replace the parts or have it alligned professionally i guess i could rotate tires front to rear on the passenger side but thats a lot of work becaus i have to use the spare in place of a jackstand.


our finished product! it sounded less loud for a bit but now it sounds like we have open headers or a helicopter is flying near by...

hopefully this doesnt get us a ticket!