Re: 1996 Honda Civic Exhaust

While i was under an 89 civic a few days ago I noticed that the HEADER 
connection was two holes and the CATALYTIC CONVERTER had three holes.

Are you missing the converter?

-SP



DGD wrote:
> My son has a 1996 Honda Civic CX hatchback.  He purchased an
> aftermarket exhaust system to replace the entire system from the
> header all the way back.  The exhaust header has a two bolt flange on
> it.  The corresponding piece of the replacement exhaust system has a
> three hole flange and cannot be connected.  It also appears that the
> replacement system is about 6" too short.  The system came from eBAY
> from a store called Speedneedz (or something like that).  Has anyone
> come across this type of problem?  To me it seems that all that is
> needed is a transition piece to from from the two hole flange on the
> header to the three hole flange on the exhaust pipe.  What's annoying
> is that this is supposed to be a simple replacement of a stock item
> without modification.  Hasn't worked out that way.  Anyone come across
> this before?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Doug