shop wants $500 just to run pipes!
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shop wants $500 just to run pipes!
i told him i have both magnapacks, the tips and a X-over and i just need him to hack off the "Y" pipe, replace it with the X-over and run it 45'ed behind the tires and he quoted me $425 + TAX!!!
it took me 10 minutes to explain to him i had the mufflers and all. before he figured it out that i had them he priced it $475 + tax! so he only charged me $50 for 2 mufflers and the rest was all parts then labor...he insisted i come to his shop so i can show him how i wanted the X-over because to him they are useless. i didn't go into detail as to why i wanted it on (we all know why) i just told him i wanted it on. he THEN said, "well, that will be ANOTHER $50 on top of the $425"!!!
oh yeah, he said...im not sure how we can fit your "H" pipe in there because there isn't much room, maybe 4-5 inches!!
needles to say, i wont be going to him! i just thought i would share my experience trying to get a decent exhaust put on my truck. AND he doesn't have a mandrel bender...HA!
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tell me about it!
i can get "aluminized" pipe exhaust setup (or whatever they call it) for $200 from another shop but PA salted roads would have it rotten in 2 years. im almost thinking of buying the pipe and doing it myself. i have the welder and my friend has a pipe bender. i was just hoping to find someone with a mandrel bender.
so two 10FT sticks of SS would be enough to do my entire exhaust?
i already have this exhaust on it:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/FLO-17417/?rtype=10
the pipes AFTER the muffler should be 2.5 inch right (on the flowmaster exhaust i have on it now)? what if i just take out the muffler and run the dual magnapack's and X-over myself? then i would already have the pipes bent over the axle and such and i can just cut them where i want to and 45 em behind the tires?
i have already "borrowed" a couple pictures of the X-over from member's on here so it shouldn't be hard.
it looks like i would just need a 90, a little section for the left. and a straight section for the right, am i correct?
i can get "aluminized" pipe exhaust setup (or whatever they call it) for $200 from another shop but PA salted roads would have it rotten in 2 years. im almost thinking of buying the pipe and doing it myself. i have the welder and my friend has a pipe bender. i was just hoping to find someone with a mandrel bender.
so two 10FT sticks of SS would be enough to do my entire exhaust?
i already have this exhaust on it:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/FLO-17417/?rtype=10
the pipes AFTER the muffler should be 2.5 inch right (on the flowmaster exhaust i have on it now)? what if i just take out the muffler and run the dual magnapack's and X-over myself? then i would already have the pipes bent over the axle and such and i can just cut them where i want to and 45 em behind the tires?
i have already "borrowed" a couple pictures of the X-over from member's on here so it shouldn't be hard.
it looks like i would just need a 90, a little section for the left. and a straight section for the right, am i correct?
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tell me about it!
i can get "aluminized" pipe exhaust setup (or whatever they call it) for $200 from another shop but PA salted roads would have it rotten in 2 years. im almost thinking of buying the pipe and doing it myself. i have the welder and my friend has a pipe bender. i was just hoping to find someone with a mandrel bender.
so two 10FT sticks of SS would be enough to do my entire exhaust?
i already have this exhaust on it:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/FLO-17417/?rtype=10
the pipes AFTER the muffler should be 2.5 inch right (on the flowmaster exhaust i have on it now)? what if i just take out the muffler and run the dual magnapack's and X-over myself? then i would already have the pipes bent over the axle and such and i can just cut them where i want to and 45 em behind the tires?
i have already "borrowed" a couple pictures of the X-over from member's on here so it shouldn't be hard.
it looks like i would just need a 90, a little section for the left. and a straight section for the right, am i correct?
i can get "aluminized" pipe exhaust setup (or whatever they call it) for $200 from another shop but PA salted roads would have it rotten in 2 years. im almost thinking of buying the pipe and doing it myself. i have the welder and my friend has a pipe bender. i was just hoping to find someone with a mandrel bender.
so two 10FT sticks of SS would be enough to do my entire exhaust?
i already have this exhaust on it:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/FLO-17417/?rtype=10
the pipes AFTER the muffler should be 2.5 inch right (on the flowmaster exhaust i have on it now)? what if i just take out the muffler and run the dual magnapack's and X-over myself? then i would already have the pipes bent over the axle and such and i can just cut them where i want to and 45 em behind the tires?
i have already "borrowed" a couple pictures of the X-over from member's on here so it shouldn't be hard.
it looks like i would just need a 90, a little section for the left. and a straight section for the right, am i correct?
#9
tell me about it!
i can get "aluminized" pipe exhaust setup (or whatever they call it) for $200 from another shop but PA salted roads would have it rotten in 2 years. im almost thinking of buying the pipe and doing it myself. i have the welder and my friend has a pipe bender. i was just hoping to find someone with a mandrel bender.
so two 10FT sticks of SS would be enough to do my entire exhaust?
i already have this exhaust on it:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/FLO-17417/?rtype=10
the pipes AFTER the muffler should be 2.5 inch right (on the flowmaster exhaust i have on it now)? what if i just take out the muffler and run the dual magnapack's and X-over myself? then i would already have the pipes bent over the axle and such and i can just cut them where i want to and 45 em behind the tires?
i have already "borrowed" a couple pictures of the X-over from member's on here so it shouldn't be hard.
it looks like i would just need a 90, a little section for the left. and a straight section for the right, am i correct?
i can get "aluminized" pipe exhaust setup (or whatever they call it) for $200 from another shop but PA salted roads would have it rotten in 2 years. im almost thinking of buying the pipe and doing it myself. i have the welder and my friend has a pipe bender. i was just hoping to find someone with a mandrel bender.
so two 10FT sticks of SS would be enough to do my entire exhaust?
i already have this exhaust on it:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/FLO-17417/?rtype=10
the pipes AFTER the muffler should be 2.5 inch right (on the flowmaster exhaust i have on it now)? what if i just take out the muffler and run the dual magnapack's and X-over myself? then i would already have the pipes bent over the axle and such and i can just cut them where i want to and 45 em behind the tires?
i have already "borrowed" a couple pictures of the X-over from member's on here so it shouldn't be hard.
it looks like i would just need a 90, a little section for the left. and a straight section for the right, am i correct?
The shop that did that work charged me $415 for Install.. I purchased the Tips, Mufflers, X-Pipe, High Flows.. they did all the bending and welding, hanging blah.. Price ended up being more than the original quote.. but It sounded so good, I ran with it.
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i paid upwards 500 for t304, and i went with it because i got to jump into the pit and help the guy with the tip alignment, double check the seams on the welding etc etc plus they begged me for a tip (money tip) i figured what the hell these poor basterds are that hungry, ill give it to em...mandrel bended and everything and i just wanted to be all over with it.....i had to get em to order two sticks of 2.5" SS t304 and 1 of 3" all 10'
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i paid upwards 500 for t304, and i went with it because i got to jump into the pit and help the guy with the tip alignment, double check the seams on the welding etc etc plus they begged me for a tip (money tip) i figured what the hell these poor basterds are that hungry, ill give it to em...mandrel bended and everything and i just wanted to be all over with it.....i had to get em to order two sticks of 2.5" SS t304 and 1 of 3" all 10'
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i told him i have both magnapacks, the tips and a X-over and i just need him to hack off the "Y" pipe, replace it with the X-over and run it 45'ed behind the tires and he quoted me $425 + TAX!!!
it took me 10 minutes to explain to him i had the mufflers and all. before he figured it out that i had them he priced it $475 + tax! so he only charged me $50 for 2 mufflers and the rest was all parts then labor...he insisted i come to his shop so i can show him how i wanted the X-over because to him they are useless. i didn't go into detail as to why i wanted it on (we all know why) i just told him i wanted it on. he THEN said, "well, that will be ANOTHER $50 on top of the $425"!!!
oh yeah, he said...im not sure how we can fit your "H" pipe in there because there isn't much room, maybe 4-5 inches!!
needles to say, i wont be going to him! i just thought i would share my experience trying to get a decent exhaust put on my truck. AND he doesn't have a mandrel bender...HA!
You're doing the right thing by not going there....