So I recently purchased a Fancy Wide diffuser for my coupe with stock mufflers. I already had plans to shorten the mounting point bringing the whole diffuser underneath the car more, but after reading The Hack's write up about the diffuser not fitting with stock mufflers I knew I'd have to do more cutting and fitting than originally planned. But here is what i came up with.
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cut to fit around the muffler, also marked where to drill the new mounting wholes. I decided that 3 inches shorter was a good placement.
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We used this bracket for an extra mounting point. Drilled new holes and used rivnuts to fasten.
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cleaned up the cuts to fit around the muffler better.
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on to the "fins"
so since we shortened the whole diffuser we had to shorten some of the fins for muffler clearance.
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we just traced the curve from the other side so that we would have the same angle.
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you only see the back of this piece so i wasn't too worried about it being this small. At this stage, the functionality is pretty much out the window. But we are primarily going for looks here.
as you can see in this picture the piece under the exhaust tips stick out a tad. We later trimmed that down so it was flush (not pictured)
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So at this point i stepped out for lunch to feed my "fabricator" aka my brother. I wanted to extend the piece under the exhaust and then shorten the outside fin to clear the muffler. But further thought brought us too bending it, because my idea was to keep the mufflers hidden.
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The outside piece covers the bend and the extra cut. So it all kind of blends and is not very noticeable
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From this angle you can see the extra cut. But once the car is down, you cant see it. Also painting the muffler black helps.
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And this is it all mounted up. I'm glad I slid it back under the car more for a cleaner look. Still deciding on how to finish it yet. I have a few holes to fill in and paint the bolts. But overall happy with it. Took just under 8 hours to fully finish.
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