Blowing Exhaust

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:41 pm

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

Post by **Merlin** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:43 am

The Ebay Japspeed rust to buggery after 6 months.

Post by **rob quilter** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:18 am

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.

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:26 am

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

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:54 am

just build one from bits donated from folk on here, thats real cheap

i have a stainless mid section, there you go already started

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:19 pm

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?

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:43 pm

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

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:53 pm

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

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:08 pm

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

looks like it could have been custom made

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:06 pm

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

Did you want to PM me a price?