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2026. 9. 27. 작업

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Interesting thread - these look like loads of fun!

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The car had been parked up for a month whilst on pat leave and for some reason it was 2 days before I was due back in work the exhaust started blowing, a quick look underneath showed me the joint between the centre pipe and back box had gone. I thought it would be a simple case of a new gasket and some exhaust paste but after a bit of investigation at a local garage they found the metal donut that acts as the gasket had rotted and expanded, causing both flanges to distort so they were no longer flat against each other.As well as being a very decent garage they also have a Powerflow franchise so I priced up a full stainless system but decided it was a bit of an indulgence to do so. They offered a repair so cut the flanges off and welded a piece onto the centre and sleeved it over the back box. A simple enough fix and the rest of the exhaust is still in good condition, maybe if it fails again I'll reconsider my options and opt for a stainless system.Also I found a slightly different route home, traffic free as it's literally the middle of nowhere, just outside Haworth - Brontë country, and not the best of surfaces. The suspension on the Swift seems to be almost ideal for the typical sort of British B roads, and up on the Moors around here this sort of road is fairly typical.The ride height actually looks quite high, more so I think than its contemporaries? Whilst a lower ride height would look better, being higher certainly has it's advantages on the road.My previous MX5 with its coilovers wouldn't have been enjoyable at all to drive along a road like this, but the Suzuki lapped it up.