For those who have 2.25 inch cat backs...

Does your pipe go over or under your rear suspension?

I got mine done last week and they went under the rear suspension with the pipe. It seemed fine at first, but then later that week, when I was thinking about it, I remembered that the pipe hangs down lower than any other underbody component. From the looks of the pipe, if I drop the car 2 inches it'll be scraping the ground.

Does anyone know how much it would cost (or if it's even possible) to go to a shop and tell them to chop that piece out, and weld a short length of pipe over the rear suspension?

Thanks

I had 2.25" piping, I could of swarn it went over the the rear suspension. And I never had any problems with it ever hitting the ground, even when I did things that would compress the suspension to the bump stops:D

Damn... do you know if it would be possible for a shop to chop out that chunk and re-weld another in it's place OVER the rear suspension?

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Originally posted by 87DXHatch
Damn... do you know if it would be possible for a shop to chop out that chunk and re-weld another in it's place OVER the rear suspension?

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:D Ya know what, it couldn't of been over the suspension. Now that I think back to removing my custom cat back system to sell, I did not have to mess with the suspension. I just undid the rubber mounts and unbolted it from the cat. I didn't have anything in the way.

In my car the stock exhaust went under the suspension and so does my 2.25 stainless exhaust piping. That IS the way it is supposed to be...

thats how mine is too... i copied a stock pipe from the factory that was in stock at HONDA... that is how i make the system now... with the old template...

Travis

Well double damn then... how do you guys have your cars lowered so far without the pipe scraping?

Ah but it does. Just got to learn how to drive a lowered car.. Plus it usually sounds a lot worse than it is, though on a road trip to Idaho, I set the exhaust down (piping i think/hope) at 85mph on I-84 in Oregon and the guys behind me said that I put on quite the spark show. Basically, just gotta be a little more careful.

Alex

:) I love how you worded that.

Ok... I looked again today (F#$% it's cold out!) and I guess I could probably lower it 3+ inches before it was actually dragging on the ground. They just didn't do quite as neat of a job as I could have hoped for.

This is good now, because it means I don't have to do anything before lowering 'er!!!

Thanks everyone!

As for scraping sound, my exhaust before I got it re-done (if you see my pics on my accord pics thread) scraped all the time.

It sounded so bad... me and my friends would die laughing after going over a few bumps.

i swear mine goes above the rear suspension.. its not even close to dragging.... but i was worried about the suspension pressing on the exhaust, but from the looks of it they are like 1mm away and there is not a scrape on the exhaust, so i guess its safe!

Well I looked in my Hayne's manual and in there it shows it going under the rear suspension... why I didn't just do that before, I do not know :confused:

But the peopel who did mine could have done it tighter up... it's rear tight up there in the Hayne's.