Help wit exhaust design!!!!

I still have a factory exhaust on my DX and want to upgrade. I will be going to the muffler shop in a week or so but here is the problem. I don't know whether to buy a muffler and have the shop weld on the cat-back piping or just have them make a full custom exhaust. I'm looking for a loud aggressive exhaust system for the car. If I had the shop make the exhaust system what type should I get to have it sound the way I want? So should I get a thermal, glass pack, or what kind of design for the exhaust?

I had a muffler shop custom exhaust done to my car, with a removed resonater and it was way yoo loud and raspy. I just cam across someone selling a thermal r&d exhaust for a good price near me so i went and picked it up and it sounds 100% better than my muffler shop exhaust.

thermal exhaust is the way to go for sound..there the best...but they are really pricey if you're on a low budget...u can always pick up a univ. muffler, high flow cat (optional, it's not really for a purpose unless you're running a turbo, no big HP gains) and get a shop to get custom piping...or u can use ur old cat too...w/e fits your tastes! :bigthumb:

my 88 has no cat at all on the stock exhaust, so im getting stainless pipe straight from the header all the way to the back, no resonator, and with a skunk2 muffler. but im not going to have it run the same path that the stock setup runs, im going to have it turn towards the drivers side and then go back, instead of the stock setup that goes to the passenger side, and then comes around to stick out the back on the drivers side.

i had a 90 hatch, and i gutted the cat and welded a pipe inside it, and then had a stainless catback with no resonator and a focuz muffler and tip. it sounded great, but the muffler itself was too large and got hit a lot on bumpy streets.

on my sedan i had a muffler shop custom bend me 2.25" stainless piping and weld on my muffler, piping was 80, muffer was 20 to install, and muffler itself cost 110.

How loud can my exhaust be before its considered illegal? I want it to be loud as hell! I love the sound a Honda engine makes when it accelerates so I want to be able to hear every bit of the power my engine has and let that power be heard throughout town. So they can hear the power of the 4th Gen!!!!:bigthumb:

depends on the local laws i think. I know here in cali its 95 decibels max and my old flowmaster setup would hit 115db easily and would sound like a can full of bumble bees....