ok, to round out the main possibilities...

there are always ways to getting around the scrapage of the headers arent there?....

1 would possibly be to customly re-route the exhaust more off to the side of the engine or something along the likes of that (im just comming out with ideas outta my a$$) but then that brings up the questions of more restriction? price? actual possibility of it being done?

2 customly bend the pipe a little higher/closer to the engine so its not as far from the ground as normally?

what about exhausts with custom turbo manifolds, the downpipe could be manipulated a little bit for more clearance couldnt it?

**by all words "customly" i mean keeping the pipe with same diameter & round, not creases or ghetto nasty nasty stuff like that**

:crazy(again all of these straight out of my crack but at least im still thinking like a live one)

my car is on a set of 16's with the same wheel diameter as stock wheels, im thinking of dropping my civic no more than 2 - 2.2 inches all around...would this be too much of a drop for an H22?

it is true that theres a stock H22** with approx. 220hp out there right? cuz i heard about it and im looking for that force of life baby :-P