I am looking for an exhaust shop that does mandrel bent piping in the DFW area. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I am looking for an exhaust shop that does mandrel bent piping in the DFW area. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Brink lots of $$Quote:
Originally Posted by POS Racing
Brink? Yea they are not cheap but they do nice work!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyin96M
Sorry I hadn't had any coffee yet. I'm better now ;)
Don't forget your pills! You know how you get when you forget your pills! ::Banana::Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyin96M
I have no idea what you are taliking about :confused: Wait...who are you and where am I? You damn kids get off my lawn!Quote:
Originally Posted by POS Racing
I've been to Kinney's but like others have said, they are pricey. I want something a little more wallet-friendly.
Let us know when you find a place!
What do you have planned??
The only cheap way I've ever found is to buy pre-bent mandrels and then take somewhere to cut and weld together. All the shops that I've found that have a mandrel bender in house are VERY proud of that and charge accordingly.
artechfabrication.com Lots of us use him. He uses mandrel bent pipes and will build you an exhaust.
Here's an example of an intake he built for me
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...techIntake.jpg
I just replaced my header and I want to get a test pipe and then a piece of straight pipe with a resonator out to the back.Quote:
Originally Posted by POS Racing
Get a box of high quality earplugs your going to need them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt V
call artech and lock this upQuote:
Originally Posted by Matt V
I just sent them an email for an estimate.
So new idea for exhaust.
- Resonated test pipe
- Magnaflow muffler in place of stock muffler (http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/s...e=main&id=9260)
- Mandrel bent piping from test pipe to muffer, and out muffler
Shouldn't be too loud, right?
I had a magnaflow muffler 14" I think on my car with a cat no res and still too damn loud out at lone star park last event so I went back to stock muffler....I'm thinking about trying the magnaflow with a 22" resonator and see if that will get some of the sound down
Have you checked out Enthuzacar.com? They have some nice systems for very reasonable prices. Also why do you want a test pipe? Not only will it sound like crap, but you are going to loose some low end torque. Honestly with a good high flow converter you will not loose much power over a test pipe.
That's basically jeff_man's setup that artech built. Sound level is great. No problem passing dB at HHR.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt V
I went through the same thing you're going through last year after installing a header.
Ended up with a Roadster Sport 3 for the exhaust and a 2.25 inch spun cat like this one (but not this exact one). The exhaust sounds good, doesn't rasp, and has a couple of tunable noise corks you can stick in the tail pipe (I've only run mine uncorked but have both of the inserts). It's pretty pricey, but it's a known quantity, it's light, and comes ready to bolt on.
Unless you're running a turbo setup, 2.25" is fine. Enthuzicar also has a test pipe for the 1.6, and I'd imagine they make them in the same jig.
Chris