Pat_Black

Hey guys,

So I just picked up a nice 98 vogue silver cx hatch. I swapped my B16 into it and i have jdm itr headers on it. Basically i am looking for recommendations on a catback exhaust that has a stock look to it and is not crazy loud but will perform well. I had a apexi n1 on my coupe and after i put the headers and test pipe on it just got too loud. Im looking for a world sport type but just not a world sport. Im not a fan of apexi exhausts bc they rust so quickly. I want a quality exhaust system. Any input would help. Thanks.

Pat Black aka Darkness

B_Swapped93

Buddy club spec 2 y0 3'' tip...looks stock


have one on my integra I love it(not my teg in the pic)

BraveHeartSOHC

I cannot stand the sound of buddy club exhaust. It sounds like a bee got a hold of some nuclear waste, grew to be about 100x its normal size and is flying VERY fast somewhere.

I'm going to have to bandwagon with the "stock" exhaust people and mention Yonaka which is about $250 for the setup. Sounds stock when idling and not under lots of load and doesn't "rasp". I'm going to be experimenting with my car in the next day or two and I'm going to buy a glass pack and weld that where the cat/resonator would go and order a FlowMaster 40 muffler off of eBay and weld that on when it gets here and see how that sounds.

With Hondas, I find that running a straight pipe exhaust to ANY muffler is going to sound like crap, due to the fact that Honda exhaust flow tends to vibrate a fair amount, so you'll want to even out the tone with a cat (they usually do the best job of evening tone) or resonator(s). I'm trying the glass pack just to purely see how it changes the tone back to the muffler. If I'm not happy, I'll just throw one of the $150 cats on from work and that should do it.

To prevent your exhaust from rusting, I would try some high-temperature grease as a coating. It'll probably burn off closer to the header, but the exhaust tends to cool a fair amount as it travels back. Unless you're a race car driver and the engine is under full load quite often.

JDM-Punk

sadly you dont have much options anymore... if you are up for fab work you can still find a es tuning oval muffler (those can be a bit loud though). otherwise your stuck with either the pricey spoon street for its stock look, the tanabe touring medallion, the apexi noir/ws2. i have had the tanabe touring medallion and despite its 4" tip it, it has never attracted the cops.

Pat_Black

I've been researching the yonaka. The only problem I have with it is the knock offness of it and the fact that it's so cheap I forsee problems with it rusting. The high temp grese sounds like a good idea. I've heard the body club and yes it was pretty loud. I will probably end up going with the yonaka bc it's so cheap and quiet. I'm running jdm itr headers on a cx hatch so there is not place to place a cat without cutting. Spoon and tanabe are just so expensive for who I'm doing. If this was a track car I would invest in one of those but for my purpose the yonaka should suit me well.