If you were buying an OEM muffler, where would you go?
Also if any of you have a muffler that would fit a 90 sedan with a 1.5 and a 5 speed, let me know. I need one.

 

Does it HAVE to be the OEM muffler? If so, I would start at a junkyard. I can't imagine how expensive that would be from a dealer.

 

the OEM muffler has pipes sticking out of both sides of it, and a muffler shop might charge me more to make on from scratch than the $80 I can buy it for new. It can be made of course, but if I can find the part I don't have to pay anybody labor costs.

My wife asked me tonight if I was going to look at a salvage yard for one, I thought "DUH", why didn't I think of that? I'll go Saturday, and if I can't fnd anything there, I might order one.
What I would really like to find is somebody who has a good used one that will sell it to me...

Mark

 

get a autozone one for cheap. they look and sound the same

 

For $164.80, the Honda dealership installed a brand new muffler - this price includes the muffler.

 

I went to AZ tonight, and the guy there couldn't tell me if the one they had was the OEM kind with the tubes on both sides, or a generic one that was just the muffler designed to have the extra tubes shaped and fitted to it. Do you have experience enough to know the answer to that?
THey didn't have it in stock, so I would have to order it. I might do it anyway just to see what it looks like. THey have one that says O.E. but I'm not paying for it until I see it...

Mark




Modified by Mark Finley at 9:25 PM 10/20/2004

 

All OEM Auto Parts

They sell BOSAL OEM replica's; $105 for Si Muffler

Free shipping on anything over $75.

 

Thanks, the one for my car is 70.99, so I wouldn't qualitfy for free shipping unless I ordered something else at the same time.
It's funny, I've checked about 10 different online companies, and they all have almost identicle web sites, with replica menus.
I wonder how many companies out there are actually the same company?

I'm going to try the autozone one first, I might try the junkyard, but I'd be worried that I would be buying a bad one. The one that fell off looked great right up until moment it fell off. No signs of external rust at all, but it was all eaten up on the inside...

If I don't have any luck, I'll order a new one for $70-80

Mark

 

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It's funny, I've checked about 10 different online companies, and they all have almost identicle web sites, with replica menus.
I wonder how many companies out there are actually the same company?

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They're all just pay-per start up businesses.

All of the products just get drop shipped from the manufacturer and some third party 'business man' owns and operates the individual sites.

 

Cherry Bomb Turbo II from Autozone

(Don't knock it, I've got one!)

 

Just to wrap this up, I couldn't get the OEM muffler from autozone, it was on the website, but when I went in they said the part number didn't exist. If fact, even if you enter the part number from the web site ON the web site, it still says it doesn't exist. Strange.

What I ended up doing was getting an OEM from NAPA. It cost about $100, but they had it in stock. I needed it now, and didn't want to wait on it being shipped, so it was worth the extra $20.

Works great, and the car is very quiet now. I know I'm probably the only person on this board who like a quiet car, but I'm 35 wth a family, and my racing days are far behind me.

 

i would have recomended honda. We keep them in stock for 4G's (just cause i work there )

Run about $150-$200 for an axle back though.

 

OK, I'll bite, what's the difference between the NAPA muffler, and the honda muffler?

 

i got quoted $400 for the oem muffler w/ installation for my DA.. i know its a bitch to go to the dealer... i would say go for aftermarket...

 

$400??? It's got two bolts! Dealerships can rip people off so bad. I'm glad you knew enough not to get taken, but I fell bad for all the people that don't know any better.

 

post pics of the napa one and i'll tell you the differences. I do know the honda ones have a lifetime warantee. The $400 quote was probably including the midpipe and 1 hr. of labor.

 

More like one minute of labor. I get my honda back from the transmission shop tomorrow, I'll take a picture and let you look at it. I can tell it looked to be better made than the one I took off, which I think was the original. The NAPA one had a heat shield between the muffler and the gas tank. DO the honda ones have that?

 

OEM rocks.

 

I'm pretty sure they do, I'll try to get a pic of the one we have here today.

 

They dont explode the same.



That was after less then a year.

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i recently bought a new EX muffler and 2 new finishers (tips) from honda for $150. that was wholesale price though.

i have an EX, so it came with the stock muffler, but it was a kinda rusty-colored. that's the only reason i bought a new one. i still have it if you're interested...