Plz help!

[OPAKRACING]

Ok, i just put headers on my 1996 civic EX. and, to me, its sounds like there's an exhaust leak....i know this prolly isn't gunna happen. but, does someone know of a recording of a civic with headers? heh, i'm wanna know if i gotta take it in.

but i don't know how there could be a leak, i tigtened everyhting up really tight, GRR!

help!

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

What kind of noise are you actually hearing?

Did you just install your exhaust? Header?

[OPAKRACING]

i installed the exhaust last sunday, the one before this last sunday, and i installed the headerts last saturday (the last saturday) and i'm hearing a...hmmm, so hard to describee noises over the net :(....well, lets see, i'm hearing a...well, whats an exhaust leak sound like on a civic? and how are civics supposed to sound with headers?

[AzCivic]

Did you reuse the donut gasket thing on the end of the stock down pipe? That'll cause a leak and a loss of power.

[slowEJ6]

you mean *header*.

if you have an exhaust leak, it'll sound a bit louder and more of a groggy kind of sound.
i have a small exhaust leak right after my muffler and my car sounds like a turbocharged hondas exhaust :D

[OPAKRACING]

i'm used a NEW gasket, not the stock one.

and does you are make that turbocharged sound when its idling, or jsut when your accelerating *crosses fingers*

cause my car, when oyu accelerate it sounds like a hissing sound, but i tigtened everyhitng, there couldn't be a leak! lol

[ShagginJet]

It makes a hissing sound when accelerate?? Wow, that's odd. Umm, do you have the latest drivers for your exhaust system?

I wish life was that easy. Either which way, hope you figure it out.

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Are you sure the hiss isn't from the AEM intake?

[OPAKRACING]

BTW: the hissing sounds is coming from the engine, not from teh car back.

[Senshi]

mine does that also, but its more of an airy sound, i dont know why

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by 94_AcCoRd_EX
Are you sure the hiss isn't from the AEM intake?

[OPAKRACING]

hehe, good point accord

[Honda530]

Yeah the header is going to change the tone of your intake slighty. I thought I had a leak in my header but its just the way the header sounds either that or it went away hehe.

[OPAKRACING]

i jsut went driving, and this sounds so odd, i know its NOT the intake, and it sounds like the fuel being injected into the pistons or whatever, but its loud....would headers make the fuel injecting sound louder?

[slowEJ6]

idea #1: pop hood, have someone rev your engine, stick your head in the engine bay and inspect.

[OPAKRACING]

ok, thats a good idea, but it only makes the sound when it's pulling in a gear.

if i rev it and it's standing still (in nuetral) it doesn't make the sound.

i'm starting to think its just the way the headers sound.

[AzCivic]

It probably is, if your not feeling a loss in power dont worry about it.

[OPAKRACING]

OMG I FOUND IT!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH! I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF! lol!

i turned the car on, and stuck my hand down near the header and down pipe, and i felt air in the joint between the header adn the down pipe, so i unbolted it, and took the gasket out, cause i thought it was the gasket, and the gasket is totaly spent, lol, adn its new! lol it was like all burnt and brittle, it broke in my hands, and when i took it out, there was already a piece of it missing, it was just the mesh, no silicon (causeing the leak)

so, i gotta go get some gasket material, and cut another one :P

thnx for the help guys!