Q: exhaust running hot

asked by on August 15, 2016

Son wrecked car damaging radiator, cracking manifold and cooling fans no obvious engine damage mostly body. Radiator and bracket replaced cracked manifold sealed but exhaust is running extremely hot. Trying to determine if it is worth continuing to fix but can not figure out what is causing exhaust to be so hot.

My car has 102000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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