i am planning to route my exhaust pipe through under the control arm BUT i am thinking it might be to close to the gas tank but i have seen other cars do the same although i have not seen an 06+ Si with this done. if you guys have any suggestions or have seen it done or know that it "is" safe to do it let me know thanks

 

Why are you trying to rout the exhaust under the control arm? It is going to sit intirely too close to the ground.

 

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maybe he plans on dropping the car to the point where its lower than a nascar??

 

I don't see the performance benefits from this?

 

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Yea...me neither. The stock exhaust route on these cars is already pretty good.

 

it was just a thought.

idk why he wants to but hey.. his car not mine =-]


as for the OP, if u get ur exhaust too close to the gas tank, it will heat up the gas and then booommm!!! your gonna go up like a hand grenade hahhaa jk.

but u will see differences in your miles per tank.

 

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maybe he plans on dropping the car to the point where its lower than a nascar??</TD></TR></TABLE>
Hey soon im going to find out just how low you can get the car

 

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ofcorse it will be too close to the ground but only where it dips under the arm will it be close. and that is totally fine, its not like i drive over bumps sideways! which where the issue would be.

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ofcorse you dont cause there are none. i am not wanting to do this for performance nor did i say it was for that.


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Yea...me neither. The stock exhaust route on these cars is already pretty good.</TD></TR></TABLE>


my pipeing is currently DCrh straight through with no cat or resonator and is routed like factory pipeing. BUT i wanna reroute it through underneath the control arm so i can angle my muffler at a slant. see what im saying? and yes i can still do it without going through underneath. but i have seen it done like that and it looks nasty and ghetto. it looks nasty cause the pipe comes over the arm then dips down and then comes back up at an angle and into the inlet of the muffler therefor the muffler is at an angle/slant. it looks like crap if you ask me. but i did notice that its easier to do through under the arm with crx's and older civics and tegs but this gen of civic is slightly diff. as in "closer" to do such a thing. but i was just wondering if yall had an easy idea on how it could be done. thanks anyway to those replied! i appreciate it

 

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and yes i can still do it without going through underneath. but i have seen it done like that and it looks nasty and ghetto. it looks nasty cause the pipe comes over the arm then dips down and then comes back up at an angle and into the inlet of the muffler therefor the muffler is at an angle/slant. it looks like crap if you ask me. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Just saw a 2000 si with the muffle like that. Looked horrible , and im sure that sharp bend in the piping has to restrict airflow a bit

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by i-VTEC_DOHC &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it was just a thought.

idk why he wants to but hey.. his car not mine =-]


as for the OP, if u get ur exhaust too close to the gas tank, it will heat up the gas and then booommm!!! your gonna go up like a hand grenade hahhaa jk.

but u will see differences in your miles per tank.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think you also risk a vapor lock in the fuel lines. I believe these Honda's run on a pressurized system. Too much pressure generated by too much heat near the fuel delivery tubing could only cause bad things to happen.

 

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I think you also risk a vapor lock in the fuel lines. I believe these Honda's run on a pressurized system. Too much pressure generated by too much heat near the fuel delivery tubing could only cause bad things to happen.</TD></TR></TABLE>
yes that is true. vapor lock and pressurized fuel system.

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Hey soon im going to find out just how low you can get the car </TD></TR></TABLE>

i had a 98 civic 4 dr and i had it so low, i couldnt drive over a deck of cards laying down.
then i raised it to the point where i could barely scrape the top of a 8oz. pepsi can

 

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i had a 98 civic 4 dr and i had it so low, i couldnt drive over a deck of cards laying down.
then i raised it to the point where i could barely scrape the top of a 8oz. pepsi can</TD></TR></TABLE>
lol.

 

cool then, thanks to all that have replied!

 

if you look at a scion tc there exhaust is routed around the arm b/c there is no room for piping to go over it. check out a scion tc you'll see just what you want. and o0o yea you can make the exhaust sit "cocked" without the piping bending down.