Mandrel bent piping exhaust shops

[Matt V]

I am looking for an exhaust shop that does mandrel bent piping in the DFW area. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[POS Racing]

http://www.kinneysmufflershop.com/

[Flyin96M]

http://www.kinneysmufflershop.com/

Brink lots of $$

[POS Racing]

Brink lots of $$

Brink? Yea they are not cheap but they do nice work!

[Flyin96M]

Sorry I hadn't had any coffee yet. I'm better now

[POS Racing]

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!

[Flyin96M]

Don't forget your pills! You know how you get when you forget your pills!

I have no idea what you are taliking about Wait...who are you and where am I? You damn kids get off my lawn!

[Matt V]

I've been to Kinney's but like others have said, they are pricey. I want something a little more wallet-friendly.

[POS Racing]

Let us know when you find a place!

What do you have planned??

[slowchildmiata]

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.

[johnwag]

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

[Matt V]

Let us know when you find a place!

What do you have planned??

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.

[POS Racing]

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.

Get a box of high quality earplugs your going to need them.

[jeff_man]

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.

call artech and lock this up

[Matt V]

I just sent them an email for an estimate.

[Matt V]

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?

[Bigsrturbo]

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

[Flyin96M]

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.

[johnwag]

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?

That's basically jeff_man's setup that artech built. Sound level is great. No problem passing dB at HHR.

[ckearns]

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