Centered Exhaust

[dichotomous]

as far as bodywork for the plastic bumper it depends on how ghetto you want to do it. on my previous civic, a '95 ex coupe, I had to replace the stock exhaust and the cheepest method for me to do it was key. I got a parts store cheepie exhaust, and a long exhaust tip (the tip was about a foot long and about 3" wide) and clamped it all together so the tip stuck out a nice respectable 2" or so from the back of the car, and then I secured it up nice and firmly, and it was pressing on the bumper. "oh well" I said figuring it sucked but really didnt fit any other way. well that exhaust tip got hot and unsuprisingly melted the plastic bumper where it was touching. the suprising part is that it did it really cleanly and after a couple of months and retightening the straps so the exhaust was nice and straight and happy, it formed a beautifully matched cutout 1/4" bigger than the pipe just like I ment it to do that, I just snapped off the melted plastic now and then. This was, of course, in the same location as the existing tailpipe so there was no other hole to fill in, but it worked for what it did. the tip was chrome too so a quick polish and it was a suprisingly nice looking exhaust that wasnt the typical civic grapefruit shooter/motorcycle muffler.

[RedSiBaron]

as far as bodywork for the plastic bumper it depends on how ghetto you want to do it. on my previous civic, a '95 ex coupe, I had to replace the stock exhaust and the cheepest method for me to do it was key. I got a parts store cheepie exhaust, and a long exhaust tip (the tip was about a foot long and about 3" wide) and clamped it all together so the tip stuck out a nice respectable 2" or so from the back of the car, and then I secured it up nice and firmly, and it was pressing on the bumper. "oh well" I said figuring it sucked but really didnt fit any other way. well that exhaust tip got hot and unsuprisingly melted the plastic bumper where it was touching. the suprising part is that it did it really cleanly and after a couple of months and retightening the straps so the exhaust was nice and straight and happy, it formed a beautifully matched cutout 1/4" bigger than the pipe just like I ment it to do that, I just snapped off the melted plastic now and then. This was, of course, in the same location as the existing tailpipe so there was no other hole to fill in, but it worked for what it did. the tip was chrome too so a quick polish and it was a suprisingly nice looking exhaust that wasnt the typical civic grapefruit shooter/motorcycle muffler.

thats halariously ghetto-tasticly-awesome :thumb:

[ep3moschini]

thats halariously ghetto-tasticly-awesome :thumb:

my buddy club spec II on my integra did that lol

[dichotomous]

thats halariously ghetto-tasticly-awesome :thumb:

it REALLY REALLY was a ghetto way to do it, but it ended up looking perfect, like an oldschool well done performance exhaust. Basically, I got lucky on that one.
now the black flames I added to the hood.... were very well layed out and awsome as far as flames go, but I dont think I'll do flames again

[dashehonda]

Every single Kia spectra five has that conversion done near my house me..... Might look ok on an ep3.

Whats up with that, ive seen like 3 so far near me, its like they re the next big thing right?

[kaisertj]

Whats up with that, ive seen like 3 so far near me, its like they re the next big thing right?

Yeah, so it seems..... Actually, one of the guys used to work with me, said he spent almost 2k after the modified bumper, paint, exhaust and labor. On an auto sprectra five..... Sucker was loud too, he would always hit the gas funny when acclerating to make it sound like a manual too. On a different note, I believe one of the last 3-4 issues of hondatuning had an EG with a dual center exit, didnt look too bad at all.

[TTownEP]

as far as bodywork for the plastic bumper it depends on how ghetto you want to do it. on my previous civic, a '95 ex coupe, I had to replace the stock exhaust and the cheepest method for me to do it was key. I got a parts store cheepie exhaust, and a long exhaust tip (the tip was about a foot long and about 3" wide) and clamped it all together so the tip stuck out a nice respectable 2" or so from the back of the car, and then I secured it up nice and firmly, and it was pressing on the bumper. "oh well" I said figuring it sucked but really didnt fit any other way. well that exhaust tip got hot and unsuprisingly melted the plastic bumper where it was touching. the suprising part is that it did it really cleanly and after a couple of months and retightening the straps so the exhaust was nice and straight and happy, it formed a beautifully matched cutout 1/4" bigger than the pipe just like I ment it to do that, I just snapped off the melted plastic now and then. This was, of course, in the same location as the existing tailpipe so there was no other hole to fill in, but it worked for what it did. the tip was chrome too so a quick polish and it was a suprisingly nice looking exhaust that wasnt the typical civic grapefruit shooter/motorcycle muffler.

I had a similar situation in my old '93 Accord. But possibly even more ghetto...
This was my first import by the way, I learned a lot from those mistakes.

I was going to "improve" my exhaust system. So I went down to Advance Auto Parts, and got me an APC fart-can muffler. It didn't come with mounts, it was just a little universal deal. So I clamped it up and hung it from the other loops with some wire. As it turns out, I had hung it a little high, and it was pushing up into the bumper, which it promptly melted. Wherever that car is, it still has burnt plastic marks on that tip to this day. But in an even more ghetto-fabulous maneuver, I made some repairs... Being lowered, the little pre-muffler up towards the middle of the car suffered a lot of scrapes. It finally developed a hole, and to fix it, I used two Mountain Dew cans as skins, which I held in place with more wire. Those rubbed off, so I cut the whole thing out, and replaced it with a straight section of pipe held in place with exhaust clamps. Later on in this car's life, that APC muffler came off the wires and was dragged along the road a bit before I stopped and removed it the rest of the way in the turn lane on University Boulevard down in Mobile. That's when I learned to stop being cheap (kinda) and I went and had it welded in place by a shop.