Tanabe Cat-Back Exhaust

I just recently put on a Tanabe Cat-Back Exhaust on my 90 Accord EX A/T... and I was hoping I'd get the nice loud roar from it but unfortunately nothing... when i start the car you can hear it a lil other than that sounds like stock... any suggestions how i could fix it?

If you have an emissions check in your area, then get some sort of a high flow cat, but if not, get a test pipe and totally remove your converter (like I did).

Where can I get a test pipe or would i get the same affect from a hi-flow cat?

well im sure at high speeds it sounds good. or when u punch the gas.

I got mine from www.testpipes.com You would get more of a throaty engine noise with a test pipe. You could also get a resonator type test pipe (pretty much replace your converter with a resonator). I think that you can get those from ebay.

did u install the whole thing? cuz on my accord, my medalian sounded sweet...no, it wasn't LOUD, but it was loud enough an u could hear it when u accelerated. but if u want a louder exhaust, then i agree, get more air goin, an get a high flow cat.

get a full exhaust done 2 1/4 piping and test pipe or hi flow cat

Did you take the silencer out?

I don't think it has a silencer. If it did where would it be?

At the end, where your muffler is. The opening is very small with the silencer installed. There is a little screw that you need to loosen and then it will slide out. Every Tanabe comes with one, but yours must have already been installed when you got it. Double Check it and see what you find out, it makes me wonder, because I think Tanabe has one of the best sounding exhaust systems out there...

And if it turns out theres no silencer what do you suggest?

I checked the whole exhaust end and i did not see any holes or anything inside the muffler... so I'm guessing there isn't a silencer in it. I just find it odd that everyone else around here has the deep throaty sound but me.

buy a header to help the exhaust gases flow out

Originally posted by iceking66
buy a header to help the exhaust gases flow out

Dude I really dont think it has anything to do with the header!!


:bloated:

agreed...maybe its jus ur underestimating how loud it is? cuz i mean...unless u've got something clogged in it, or have NO air going through, its gonna be pretty good.

now, exactly which tanabe exhaust did you get? they make different kinds for your taste. some are loud, some are quite.....................be more specific, you probably got the small quite one for all we know.................:smoker2: :smoker2:

Originally posted by LoKoBoYraSeR
now, exactly which tanabe exhaust did you get? they make different kinds for your taste. some are loud, some are quite.....................be more specific, you probably got the small quite one for all we know.................:smoker2: :smoker2:

???

Hyper and Super(Racing) Medallions are the only ones I knew of!! And both of them sounds reasonably the same!

My definition of sound is that when i hit the gas it doesn't make any sound... but when one of my friends does it with their car you can hear it so much better.

This is where I got my Cat-back... the resonator isn't as big as the one in the pic though.
http://nopionline.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=dspparts&vL1ID=0&makeid=140&modelid=010&catyear=1990&catid=0020&pcid=001&vTitle=1990%20HONDA%20Accord%20Exhaust%20Cat%2DBac k%20Exhaust%20System&vaffid=0

I got racing medallion and I really don't know what the problem is. When I had the d16z6 it was still damn loud. I say you'd have to have the silencer in for you to not be able to hear it. Look in your tip. If there's a bolt in the bottom of the tip. Take out the silencer.

either that, or they sent u a stock exhaust w/ the tanabe logo stamped on it :D j/k.

No silencer... checked it twice to make sure. IDK hopefully when I get my Hi-flow cat installed i'll notice a difference.