cool , if i get it, i might just take it to a shop
[QUOTE=abs-lsd;2088809]Why would you hack up your integra`s bumper cover to fit some garbage exhaust system when
A You could buy a high quality aftermarket item and support the companys that keep what we do alive and possible.
B Make your own exhaust system out of high quality parts and have it fit the car properly
C What the hells wrong with the oem system? Those twin tip are damn hot![/QUOTE]
just the hangers in the wrong location doesnt make it garbage
a $129 vs $450-600, you get the same thing except for the muffer, who cares when you pay 129, they last the same time , the gain is the same. why borther?
b this $129 is better than what you get from any shop, you wanna have a custom welded metal( not stainlees) catrback , pay 220 -250 let them do it.
c nothing wrong with my stock one,i like the oem dual tip, i am thinking the car would be lil faster, and sounds sexier with a catback
the piping will last, i can add any muffler i want in the future
I have my exhaust coming out from the right side . I didnt do it for looks , I did it for performance reasons , less bends and less length piping for the exhaust gas to go threw . And I didnt care if people liked it or not . Its also a muffler shop special . The pipe has yet to show any signs of rusting , inside or out .
— I hopped off the JDM bandwagon . Now I’m walking my own way —
I have an exhaust that I guarantee has 250*'s less bends then anything your muffler shop can make, comes with a new hanger that acura never put on the car, but did leave a bolt hole for and only cost me $500 and didnt have to hack the back of the car up. Plus if you slide off the road with your slammed car and the exhaust gets hung in the dirt, the axle back portion will slip off since it doesnt bolt together, keeping you from tweaking your nice header and motor mounts… But I guess that muffler shop special makes it better since it was cheaper…
Just reading what coke, nick and a handful of others are saying is such a disapointment that this stuff still takes place, especially for people that are on a site like this. This is the stuff I would expect from some kid that just got his license, parents got him a integra, has no clue what the internet is, and only has a minute clue as to imports from what he has watch in the fast and furious series… Why butcher the car or get poor quality stuff. If you all are so much into not spending money, due everyone a favor, leave it stock height and get a factory style exhaust from the muffler shop and use it to drive to and from school or work.
Only way I would go with a muffler shop special, is if I had them run the piping exactly how mine is, but go with 3" with the piping before and under the tank beign oval due to keeping the volume the same but allowing my car to be as low as it is, and where the piping comes to the muffler rounding back out and having a GTII 3" muffler welded on.
Yea my car has a muffler shop special . But its not a crush bend like every muffler shop does . Its all 2 1/4 mandrel bent pipping . So no it was isn’t cheap . And to have a one -off piece that no one else is running is way better for me . And for the record I wouldn’t buy eBay exhaust or header . But get that’s just me .
— I jumped off the JDM bandwagon . Now I’m walking my own way —
It was raining today, so I couldn’t get much better pics… so, I guess these will just have to do for now…
Here’s some pics of the eBay exhaust before I installed it:
Here’s my modifications to the midpipe hangers:
(used a cutoff wheel to trim down the sides of the hangers and cut slots in them and the bolts so the hose clamps couldn’t slip)
(then clearance was looking close with the shifter, so I trimmed down the tops of the hanger pieces that were sticking up)
Installed:
The rear hangers where I bent them (they were basically just 90* bends to start out):
its hanging too low at the rear wheel right before the axle…
[QUOTE=japanjay;2088956]
some kid that just got his license, parents got him a integra, has no clue what the internet is, and only has a minute clue as to imports from what he has watch in the fast and furious series… Why butcher the car or get poor quality stuff. If you all are so much into not spending money, due everyone a favor, leave it stock height and get a factory style exhaust from the muffler shop and use it to drive to and from school or work. .[/QUOTE]
wow i dont know what to say…
Well, my car is pretty low, but yeah, it’s still rather low at that section. The rest of it clears way better than my previous one. Pretty sure it’s low there because it doesn’t have a hanger on it there like the stock one. So, it all goes back to the hangers all being wrong on it.
you should have a shop weld a hanger to that, looks not safe.
He meant to say:
You really should have had a shop weld a new hanger instead of doing your hack job, it doesnt look safe.
I get headaches trying to read your posts…
A hackjob is what I would have gotten out of most of the exhaust shops around here - that’s what happened to my previous exhaust that I had them fix and it was a $500+ Thermal R&D. Most shops can’t weld stainless (they might try, but they make a mess of it and epically fail). There’s a couple of performance shops that can do some decent tig welding, but they wanted $100 just to weld flanges on a cat… didn’t even want to ask about repairing my old exhaust or modifying this one (both requiring 3-4X’s as much welding).
There’s nothing unsafe about my exhaust. It is bolted on securely and does not leak (unlike the previous one that was about to fall off and occasionally scraped on flat pavement). The more I think about that section in front of the rear tire, I don’t think I could raise it more than .5" - 1" since the muffler is already about as close to the body as it can get and the only thing I could do would be to make it pivot a little on the other two rear hangers which would also bring the tip down away from the bumper (maximum of 1" or it would be pointed down in a funky way).
Most people with cars as low as mine have headers and resonators closer to the ground than mine is at that one point. Worst case, it rubs the pavement turning into somewhere or going over a speed bump and scratches the edge of the flange (I’m not concerned).
[QUOTE=japanjay;2089382]He meant to say:
You really should have had a shop weld a new hanger instead of doing your hack job, it doesnt look safe.
I get headaches trying to read your posts…[/QUOTE]
i meant he should take the car to a shop, and let them make a hanger to the section that hangs too low, that doesnt look safe , cuz it hangs too low you might hit that section
from the pics its like 1 or 2 inches ground clearance, looks really close to the ground.
If you don’t want to be around loud, obnoxious cars, don’t drive or associate with Imports.
Many of us, like me, drive our cars to drive them, and don’t want to spend tens of thousands on the cars. I’m driving the DA now because I dumped so much cash into my 3rd gen Supra buying nothing but “proven” name brand shit that I couldn’t do a damn thing anymore.
Now, I have a DA with cheaper, still quality, parts, but I also live debt free and have a nice apartment full all new furniture and a big ass TV to boot!
Some things are just more important than a $700 exhaust system.
I spent $10k in one week at the beginning of the year on new furniture, also have a big ass TV with surround, bomb ass grill. Year prior did the same thing, dropped around $8k on the teg. Got new motor, rims, tires, exhaust, all kinds of stuff for the suspension. All you have to do is save money and not be satified with cheap parts… But you all can justify how you want to. Oh, I quit smoking and cut back on drinking and partying, which saved me a TON of money…
If all of your hangers are about 2 inches out of place, it sounds like you are putting an exhaust for a 90-91 on a 92-93 (or at least it has a 92-93 header)… what year is the car and what header is on it?
My OBX fit perfectly… when I had the 91 OEM header… then I swapped it for a header that is shorter (2 inches) that research and questions point to being a header for a 92-93…
I’m an unemployed full time college student and live with my parents. I have no budget to cut… school, gas, and car parts are where 80-90% of my money goes. I paid $500 for my car and $800 for my engine. I drive my car at least 300 miles a week and get about 30MPG… perfect car for my situation. $200 or less for an exhaust that performs the same if not better than a $500+ exhaust on a daily driver is not as big of a deal as you make it out to be. It’s stainless steel and doesn’t sound like a ricey bomb muffler and with some minor modifications to the hangers… it works. Your budget and car don’t apply to this thread… this is budget exhaust thread.
[QUOTE=dfwblackls;2089815]If all of your hangers are about 2 inches out of place, it sounds like you are putting an exhaust for a 90-91 on a 92-93 (or at least it has a 92-93 header)… what year is the car and what header is on it?
My OBX fit perfectly… when I had the 91 OEM header… then I swapped it for a header that is shorter (2 inches) that research and questions point to being a header for a 92-93…[/QUOTE]
Well, this wasn’t an OBX, it was a no name eBay one. I have a 1992 with a 1992 header and 1992 stock cat. I laid the exhaust against my previous exhaust and everything was the same length. The middle hangers were about 2" too far forward. The muffler section wouldn’t have fit on any 90-93 Integra with the way the hangers were on it… had to modify it just to get it on the car not bolted up to anything else. Theoretically, if it was for a 90-91, the mid section would have just been too short and I couldn’t have made the midsection connect to both the cat and muffler. It’s all connected now with the muffler straight and the tip sitting perfectly in the bumper.
I see… then that makes more sense… I was pretty surprised the rear axle hanger was so bad on my OBX… there was no way for the exhaust to bolt together (on or off the car) with the position of the hanger. But for how much I spent on it, a small problem like that is not too bad… I also added a longer rubber isolator to the hanger closest to the tips. The tips are the angled DTM style and one of them was touching the bumper ever so slightly… longer isolator fixed the problem without hanging the exhaust too low.
The reason companies like OBX and Megan Racing can sell their products for cheaper is the same reason Harbor Freight can sell tools for dirt cheap. They use cheaper raw materials and skip the whole R&D and Quality Control part of the equation. Hence the reason why you have to cut this, bend this, etc just to make it fit properly. Honestly put a Thermal, HKS, Apexi etc next to a “cheap” exhaust and tell me theyre 100% identical down to the welds, and ill call you a liar.
Once all that muffler packing burns out, you guys are gonna be crying.