Recently i’ve hit a rock that stood about 1.5 inches tall and the side of a palm and my car has about 1 inch clearance. I wanna say i was going about 30 when i hit it, next thing you know i get a loud flapping sound coming from the engine bay.
My first thoughts were a leak in headers, blown gaskets, blown cat. When the car idles it’s very noticeable when standing near the engine bay.
When driving it’s super loud in the front end, i also noticed there’s hardly airflow through the exhaust.
When parked with the car on it doesn’t leak oil, no check engine.
I was able to look under the car and noticed a crack in my oem header (was able to see this fluffy like insulation from inside the headers as if this rock really did some damage) in the passenger side where the rock hit but in the video i shared the flapping sound comes from the driver side so that’s where i’m lost.
I’m not sure what to think it is at this point.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JsXuJ7yMM3Q?feature=share