kse615

Hey everyone,

So, when I first bought my 2000 Honda Civic Coupe last year, the OEM exhaust system was running well. However, because of NY winters, I started to have a lot of issues with it and being my 16 year old self (now 18), I bought a stupid eBay fart-can kit to put in my car. The mechanics could put everything in except the headers and I believe the downpipe? Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think it was because of something with a catback and an o2 sensor. I'm not sure. Hopefully someone can clarify that for me. but what can I say? It was cheap. Well now, I hate it and it's already having issues. For one thing it's obnoxiously loud and for another, when I step on the gas, it sounds like a tugboat. It sounds like a gasping almost so I'm guessing something is leaking or there is a hole somewhere. I just wanna get rid of it because it's too damn noisy.

Now that I am a little more financially stable and I just had a graduation party recently, I want to put an actual exhaust system on my car. I don't know much about cars but from my experience, rockauto.com seems like quite an okay place to order car parts from.

I found this kit for my car:

More Information for BOSAL KIT21326602

but as you can see...Part a and b aren't included in the kit. and those parts aren't available on rockauto from what I can see. I'm pretty sure if I just went to my mechanic and asked him to put an OEM exhaust on that it would be around $500+ dollars. I could be wrong but I would ideally like to try to avoid that route.

Could someone explain what those parts are and maybe where I could find them? or is there any other routes that I haven't discovered yet.

Any input/help is very appreciated. Thanks for reading and I apologize for the wall of text!!

TomCat39

2000 civic coupe, what trim level?

eghatch9295

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a/b are the manifold and cat. they don't need replaced if not damaged. you can have an oem style exhaust made for you at virtually any muffler shop for $150 or less, you might want to consider it.

kse615

Trim level means like LX, DX and so on right? It's a DX.

kse615

Thank you for this idea. I found a local shop via google search that does "Custom repairs". I will definitely call them tomorrow and see what they can do for me. Maybe they can do something to make it quiet rather than replacing everything.

eghatch9295

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midas, etc. any local muffler shop is more than capable. you have cat on manifold, being as you have a dx. this is why they didn't replace the manifold with your aftermarket header last time. if there is a problem with it, it will be MUCH cheaper to have that manifold installed, a universal converter installed under the car, and the exhaust ran from there.