Exhaustive Problem.
Discussion
After the run out at the weekend I noticed the exhaust sounded a bit louder than normal. On further investigation I have found than one of the pipes has broken clean off about level with half way along the door, just before the the center boxes. Also noticed that one of the boxes was glowing red hot after only a couple of miles, is this normal. Is it safe to drive with the busted exhaust as Peninsular cant look at it until the 26th, the pipes are not fouling anything.
Ask yourself this, If one of the boxes was glowing red hot after being subjected to hot exhaust gas blown over it after only a few miles, how hot is the fibreglass floor of your car going to be?
If you want to drive it, make sure the fire brigade are following you. From your post, I would say you have been extrememy lucky and you'd be very foolish to drive it until it's repaired.
If you want to drive it, make sure the fire brigade are following you. From your post, I would say you have been extrememy lucky and you'd be very foolish to drive it until it's repaired.
....fix it first...besides it could cost you more if you damage it any futher.
Normally you have hot exhaust gas passing through the pipe to the rear of the car, but in this instance it's exiting somewhere where it shouldn't and getting the wrong things hot. Gas passing down the pipe is contained within it and the pipe surface gets hot only. In this instance everything in the area is getting a dose of hot air.
Imagine one of those space heater things, if it was blowing from a room through a door to outside, you'd expect the room to get warmer because of the heat generated from the heater, most of the heat will be going out of the door though. Now place the heater entirely within the room and it gets a lot hotter, even with the door still open. Get my point?
Imagine one of those space heater things, if it was blowing from a room through a door to outside, you'd expect the room to get warmer because of the heat generated from the heater, most of the heat will be going out of the door though. Now place the heater entirely within the room and it gets a lot hotter, even with the door still open. Get my point?
Of course it'll get hot! It's why there is heat resistant material above the exhaust.
Cat's don't operate correctly until they are at 800°C anyway. When calibrating the new MINI I had the entire exhaust system glowing red hot! Front to back. On a lean over-run condition you could see temps well over 1000°C.
Saying that, the exhaust gas is not designed to exit in that area and hence I wouldn't drive it as you could well cause a fire.
Won;t be a lambda issue as that only operates in closed loop conditions and you'll never see exhaust temps like that in closed loop.
Cat's don't operate correctly until they are at 800°C anyway. When calibrating the new MINI I had the entire exhaust system glowing red hot! Front to back. On a lean over-run condition you could see temps well over 1000°C.
Saying that, the exhaust gas is not designed to exit in that area and hence I wouldn't drive it as you could well cause a fire.
Won;t be a lambda issue as that only operates in closed loop conditions and you'll never see exhaust temps like that in closed loop.
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