low exhaust problem

Here's my scenario:
I just bought a new exhaust for my car, a HKS Hiper with a high flow cat. It is very low because my car is lowered already, its just under 50mm off the ground. I got a defect notice for it.
I took it to a suspension place, they said I need to raise it 60mm to get it to legal limit, 100mm. They said for my car to get to stock height, i would only need a 30mm raise, and i probably couldn't get springs for a 60mm raise for my car.

Can anyone confirm this ?
Should I swap exhausts, take it to vicroads ( I'm in Victoria btw ), get it cleared and throw my exhaust back on and raise it the extra 30mm so it doesn't look as low ? I guess my only other options are to modify the exhaust or sell it and get a different one.

Do you have the stock exhaust you can chuck back on?

i should be able to get access to a stock exhaust

the hks hiper and apexi n1 has the piping to go under the axle, btw what car is it? u need to look at the buddyclub, spoon or fgk for the piping that go over the axle.

94 Integra vti-r
Yea the piping goes under and the exhaust tip points upwards

Sorry to hijack, but if fitting an N1 onto a DC2, does the piping HAVE to be underaxle? I'm considering N1 Apexi muffler for my dc2, but she's very low as it is..... :roll:

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Originally Posted by joneblaze

Sorry to hijack, but if fitting an N1 onto a DC2, does the piping HAVE to be underaxle? I'm considering N1 Apexi muffler for my dc2, but she's very low as it is..... :roll:

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To answer the hijacking question. :D

No it doesn't have to be underaxle. If you look under your car you will see there's room for overaxle piping. ;) Anything's possible, custom piping is easily made up and fairly cheap.

Back on topic though...

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Originally Posted by joneblaze

Sorry to hijack, but if fitting an N1 onto a DC2, does the piping HAVE to be underaxle? I'm considering N1 Apexi muffler for my dc2, but she's very low as it is..... :roll:

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unless u get the us version of apexi n1 that goes over the axle. or go custom made piping and u route it anywhere u like, even below the front bumper :D

The reason for some c/b exhausts to go u/axle is to keep the piping as straight as possible.
Less bends, less restriction - more power!!! 8) 8) 8)

Hi dude, I had a HKS Hiper on my integra vtir. It was sitting reallly low to the ground as well and I scrapped almost everything on the road.. I had it for about 6 months .. when one day I was driving on Queens Street in the city.. I had 3 passengers + me in the car and went through a little dip on the road.. the whole piping hit the road, twisted and fell off and my car was dragging it.. that sucks big time.. had to tie up and drive home like that.. :D The whole muffler and the piping was unusable after that.. so had to put a stock muffler back..

P.S Mine was the hiper designed to bolt on to a dc2... so yeah. unless u change the piping, theres nothing u can do.

Ahh... i see. thanks for that. i just got abit confused with all the underaxle talk... i was pretty sure the muffler could be fitted either over/under.

*mental note: don't take passengers to queen st*

What do you think it would cost me to get a custom pipe to temporarily go over the axle so I can clear my defect notice. That would raise the tip, but what about the cat converter and the other muffler/resonator, any ideas anyone ?