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Unlikely. When I purchased the car I could swear it still had the factory dampers, and I replaced the struts with OEM equivalents. My car is at the stock ride height.
You have to remember that everything is 15 years old and has 165k miles. Rubber gets old and nasty. Regarding the exhaust, I'll take a photo of it later, but the crack was at the second, built in resonator in the factory exhaust system in the sheet metal just above a weld.
As far as the tank goes, I only know from what I've read online, but I've found several threads where people have had their tanks crack in the same point, and first hand there's the tank that I picked up from a guy with a '96 S14 with the same crack.
But who knows? I believe that I'm the third owner. The second owner was a guy who drove it during college and when I bought it from him it was entirely stock.
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