Originally Posted by BQS4
Bob;
The hangers you mentioned, are they the round ring OEM type, but, in urethane?
|
Nope. I friggin' hate the OEM Opel hangers. What a crappy design! They break all the time, and even when they're new, they are bouncy and let the exhaust rattle and hit parts of the floorpan.
Newer cars all pretty much use a hanger that is essentially a rubber biscuit with two holes for the hanger rods to fit through. They're a big improvement over the Opel ones, but the aftermarket urethane ones are WAYYY stronger than even the modern rubber ones and do not bounce at all. And knowing how I like to modify suspensions....rubber is just
too soft. It doesn't help that the exhaust is so much bigger than stock that the proximity to other components is very close. So I needed to mimimize exhaust movement as much as possible.
These are the hangers I'm ordering, but I'm getting mine with a 12 mm hole ID rather than 15 mm. The metal hanger rods I have are 1/2", so that's roughly a .028" interference fit.