Putting stuff on! help!

[shyguy98ex]

I have a 98 civic ex, and I ordered eyelids, a JDM grill, a muffler, and undercar lights and kinda need to know how to put them on.

Eyelids: hot and where do i need to bolt them in?

JDM grill: does the stock grill seperate from the bumper, where and how? do i need to buy new pins... or hangers?

Muffler: imma have someone put on for me cause i don't have a welding torch...

undercar lights: where do i wire what to what? how do i mount them?

....i feel like an idiot not know any of this and not taking it into account when i ordered it all.... any help would be great!

[Civic_D16Y5]

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im one to talk thought, eyelids i think just adhesive to your headlights
grill has like 5 screws on top of it, screw em out, pop out the grill and reverse
undercar lights, i think u just need to find a way to atatch them to your car, then get a good ground for each, then wire em to the battery through a switch
there should a little rubber cork to the bottom right of the battery and thats how you get to the cockpit, thorught the firewall

[shyguy98ex]

damn thats complicated and i don't want to screw with my battery, i tried taking out the grill and i couldn't get it, there are some little rusted things holding it on.... and the undercar lights came in the mail today and one of the bulbs is broken so i need to send-em back.... damn

but the muffler came and it looks nice, now i needa put it on

[emerge]

Are you sure you are talking about the GRILL? The grill is only held on by 5-6 plastic snap-on bolts along the top. A simple flat-head screwdriver can be used to pop them off. Don't put on the muffler yourself. I can tell you don't have the knowledge to be working on anything besides exterior. Take it to an exhaust shop. Eyelids use double-sided tape and just stick on to your headlights. You'll probably lose one, one day when you are going 85 down the interstate. Undercar lights, I have no idea, those are gay as hell.

[eckoman_pdx]

I know this thread is a few days old, but if you just bought the muffler and not a cat-back exhuast system, have the muffler shop run you some custom 2 1/4" cat-back piping while they are putting the muffler on. The Muffler itself won't add power, it'll just sound annoying. You need to run piping, about 2 1/4" on an N/A honda, fgor power gains. If you just have the muffler welded on with no new 2 1/4" cat back piping, it'll just have that annoying sound with no power gain.

[RSLaser]

Save your money and get a clamp for the muffler...works just as well. shops do it cause uits cheaper and faster for them.

[eckoman_pdx]

You want him to cut off the stock muffler and then clamp on a universal one, not weld it??? Not the greatest idea. There are sure to be exhaust leaks. For starters, chances are the piping size OEM won't match the opening of the muffler. Civic only have about 1 3/4" piping. Most universal mufflers have a 2 1/4" opening for piping. Once he cuts the stock muffler off, the's nothing to clamp the universal one down to, plus it won't seal right. As I said, exhaust leaks...bad.

Also, as I said, the muffler alone won't do squat expect create an annoying sound. In order to gain any power he needs a cat-back exhuast. Have them run some 2 1/4" custom piping with mandrel bends from the cat-back at the same time they install it, and he'll be fine. As long as the exhaust guy knows something, the custom cat-back should work fine. You need the piping to get any performance gain, the univeral muffler alone won't render any performance gains.