Lude Generation

Hi folks,

Looks like my exhaust is buggered, noticed at the beginning of the week the car wasn't pulling like it should. Then noticed at low speed with the window down I could hear the exhaust blowing quite badly a clamber under the car reveals it's from the midsection, tbh I'm not too bothered with finding the hole as I think I may as well just replace the exhaust. So, any recommendations for a sub £200 cat back? I'm thinking one of the £189 eBay ones unless they're terrible?!

Cheers,
Josh

The Ebay Japspeed rust to buggery after 6 months.

Merlin wrote:The Ebay Japspeed rust to buggery after 6 months.

This!

sub £200 for a catback, the quality is going to be body lemonade poor. I have a powerflow, its better quality than your eBay ones, mine cost around £250 fitted and has been on the car for 3 years now with no problems or rust.

You get what you pay for, if you spend £900 on a solid fab one, obviously the quality is epic.

Glad I didn't get all impulsive and just buy it then!! An extra £50 to get a powerflow system fitted wouldn't break the bank I don't think. The only other thing I was considering was buying all the parts individually through Jetex or someone similar, then just getting someone local to weld it all up. Or I wonder if the Accord powerflow system I have would fit the Lude... Twin back boxes

just build one from bits donated from folk on here, thats real cheap i have a stainless mid section, there you go already started

Just been quoted £146 to replace my mid section with a Bosal mild steel crush bent replacement part... Don't think I'll go down that route, although feel a bit bad as the exhaust place I went to are very friendly and helpful plus they're sort of a family friend

At any rate, as I suspected my mid section is blown. Littlefeller, is the mid section you have for a JDM model?

yep, will post a picy. it came from a jdm lightweight version (just a honda sales ploy to shift cars with no extras) but yeh it was a jdm, though the centre silecer is different, mine is one long one but this has 2 smaller ones, but it is stainless though

Awesome, sounds good the blowing sounds worse every day so I can't wait to sort this!

Hmm I wonder why they went for 2 small silencers rather than one big one, remove different frequencies or something? Maybe it's louder

Will sit tight for the pics, cheers mate

yeh it was louder, originaly came with a decat, someone on puk had that, cant remember who, i had the cilencer off it. as you can see in the last pic it wasnt originaly with 2 silencers (you can see where they were joined) anyone seen one like this before?

By littlefeller2010 at 2012-07-31

By littlefeller2010 at 2012-07-31

By littlefeller2010 at 2012-07-31

By littlefeller2010 at 2012-07-31

looks like it could have been custom made

Looks fine mate, I'll just be glad to have a non blowing exhaust

Did you want to PM me a price?