No big deal, i get it also. I get it right after i shift from 1st to 2nd, sounds kina like a mini BOV.

 

no problem hope this helps

 

I actually got under the car today and it is deffinitely the test pipe touching the intake charge pipe. I'm guessing I'm losing some horsepower here too with heat soak being that the exhaust is directly touching the intake charge. Didn't someone say this could be fixed with a mallot?

 

Anhything can be fixed with a mallot and duct tape!!

 

And JB Weld!

 

yeah I don't think I'm even gonna take it back to the same shop. They are some guys that have a drag civic thats pretty bad a$$ed but i think that hondas are pretty much all they work on even though they said otherwise. It took them all day to get the cats off and test pipes on my car and they charged me $201.88 which is ludacris. So I guess I'll just wait till CIN can get me in to fix the problem

 

damn!
it took me like an hour to do mine and half of that was literally me looking for bolts and extensions. 200 bucks is alot to pay.

 

yeah so many people just open up shops that have a little experience installing exhausts and cold air intakes its hard to know who's legit. These guys seem like they should be though because they have an 850whp civic drag car that they did. I knew i was at the wrong place though when i told one of the guys that my air fuel was to rich at about 10.5 and he insisted that I was WAY to lean.

 

Daniel you shouldnt have paid that much. I know for a fact that luke up there knows his stuff he has been racing cars his whole life along with tex owner of the civic. I have know luke for a long time and you dont have to be to mechanically inclined to do a test pipe install if you have the right extensions it will take you an hour. If they had told you that you were running to lean and you knew it was the wrong place to get work done than why let them touch your car????

 

the discussion about the A/F was when i picked the car up

and I didn't really have a choice about paying that much. They told me it would be a half hour job, and hour tops and thats why i dropped my car off to them. Then when I came to pick it up they handed me a 200 dollar invoice. They had the keys to my car and i was obligated to pay them. I could've made a scene but It just wasn't worth it. I just chalked it up to a learning experience. Which one is luke? I met tex i think.

 

Dude loads of ppl have this noise with testpipes. Its a Rasp and it sounds like metallic fluttering. Its something to do woth soundwaves etc and there is nothgin you can do about it. Its just ' the way the exhaust is' with testpipes. Its an engine characteristic, like a rasp on an E46 M3

 

Couldn't be any more wrong.

This isn't rasp. I know what rasp is... I've had the test pipes on for about 15k miles and understood what the raspiness was. This sounds like a handful of METAL WASHERS inside, RATTLING around, NOT rasp. What the OP's experiencing isn't "normal rasp" from a test pipe, it sounds more like what he discovered, metal on metal vibrating against eachother.

 

Its actually neither as i've experienced both already. I looked under the car and can see the test pipe touching the intake charge pipe.

 

its much deeper than rasp and its not part of the "exhaust sound" like rasp would be...

 

Test pipe = metal?
Intake charge pipe = metal?

Metal on metal vibrating against eachother? lol

Just throw some cheese on that b*tch inbetween the two pipes.

 

cheese? i don't get it...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRwz65vKHiU

 

Luke is kind of bigger with a lot of facial hair. He races the e36 M3 the black one with the cage. Yes I know they have your keys but if they quote you a price and then say it took longer I would refuse to pay for it. Thats just me though. Whats the labor rate up at that shop anyways.

 

ok so luke is the one who didn't have a clear understanding of the A/F then. They didn't quote me a price they just said it shouldn't take longer than an hour. And yes I could've refused to pay them but it was at the end of a long day at work and i just wanted to go home without making a scene. This whole thing was sort of a test for them anyway to see if I might have them do anything else since they are literally within walking distance of my work so I just chalked it up to a learning experience that cost me about $125 more than it should have.

There labor rate is $65 an hour by the way.

 

If i were you guys i would just let CIN do all the work....yes i know putting test pipes is a 20 minute job but dont you get a gaurantee there?