ChrisB wrote:

> Two years ago, I had to have the tail pipe on the 1997 Civic going to
> the muffler replaced because it rusted through where it bent right
> before the muffler. A local muffler shop just cut the rusted section,
> fabricated a new section, and welded it in.
>
> The funny thing, even with a hole in the pipe the size of a quarter, my
> car still didn't make as much noise as those Civics with the fart cannon
> exhausts.

But when the pipe that runs from the cat to the front of the car (sometimes
called the "A" pipe) goes bad, then it could get as noisy as a fart pipe.