I just installed a cat-back system on my '02 Accord (4cyl coupe), and it hangs about an inch - 1 1/2 inches too low, especially at the rear (from the rear axle back), plus the muffler hit the (OEM) rear valance until I bent the hangers on the muffler. I am using the orig. (50k miles) rubber 'doughnuts' and the new cat-back's heavier weight than the original seems to have strectched the original Honda rubber 'doughnuts'.

Question: are any Honda or Acura 'doughnuts' any shorter (distance between the hole for the body mounted hanger rod and the exhaust or muffler mounted hanger rods)? I seem to recall that 2nd gen Integra hangers are shorter than the 6th gen Accords. Or, is there a good source online for univeral rubber hangers that are of the same basic configurtation as those used by Honda? Thus far, Googling hasn't turned up much of anything.

I'm trying to avoid heating the s.s. exhaust piping or bending the mounting rods too much for that throws off the geometry of how the entire system hangs - okay now as they match up almost perfectly with the stock location -just way too low. . .

re: urethane or poly-urethane hangers ('doughnuts') - I saw a listing for them on eBay, but I'm concerned that they may be too stiff, and could cause either vibrations, or even cracking of the header, etc.

Thanks