Older high mileage Camry and Solara vehicles will eventually suffer from leaking (loud) exhaust flex pipes and clogged, non functioning catalytic converters. No reason to shell out hundreds of dollars at a muffler shop to fix them. For around $100 and change, you can buy yourself a new exhaust down pipe with the attached flex pipe and catalytic converter. In the long run, it's cheaper than piece mealing the repairs at a muffler shop. The front of the down pipe attaches to the exhaust manifold's 3 stud flange and the rear of the pipe to the two hole flange center resonator pipe. My catalytic converter was clogged and operating below the "efficiency threshold". Years prior, I had the flex pipe replaced by a muffler shop and now the converter wasn't working. Under closer examination with the engine running, the flex pipe was leaking as well. Shopped on line and learned that these replacement down pipes were pretty cheap! Figured why not just replace the whole pipe instead of a muffler shop piece mealing a repair. With a new pipe, there's nothing to cut off and weld. After I installed the new down pipe, the car was running much stronger, quieter and the mpg's went up! I'd say the back pressure from the clogged converter wasn't allowing the engine to breath thereby impacting its performance.
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