Yep...I found a similar place in St Louis. Extremly high end cars/work...I'm even scared to even call and get an estimate. I'm quite certain (actually almost positive) my daily driver F150 is not worth the cost for an exhaust from them no one else is gonna look at. I'm not an expert, but I would argue I nor a dyno will ever know the difference between mandrel bent and smooth radius bent pipe on my truck.

Don't get me wrong, I'm with ya; would love to have it. But I can do better dispersing those funds.

From my research thus far, I'd wager the only places doing mandrel because of the cost are going to be top end shops. That doens't imply that Mike at the one shop I called won't be top notch work though! Here's the website for the one guy that quoted me $500.

http://midwestautopro.net/pages.aspx?p=58802

And here's the place in town that does mandrel...jsut for your viewing pleasure, HA!

http://www.classiccarstudio.com/custom-fabrication.php

 

Yeah I agree with you bud. I'm just doing it because I'm only redoing from the cats to the intermediate pipe so I can have my Roush off road side exit bolted up.

The first one sounds like a good option. here's the one that I am going to have do mine:

ESP