exhaust shop quote and advice

fordforlife0225 · 05-09-2008, 01:50 PM

so i went to my local exhaust shop and we put my 04 v6 up on the lift and i told him that i want my y pipe cut right after the cat's and then a set of duals fabd up with flowmaster 40's and he said that was a bad idea because i prob. wouldnt pass inspection/emmisions with a cut y pipe, and i would lose alot of my low end torque/hp. so he said my best option was to have them put on a single flowmaster 40 right after the y pipe so it would have single in dual out and let them fab up dual pipes, he said that is my best option for sound and power, is it???

if i buy the muffler and tailpipes online he said to assemble it all = $250 labor

if i let them do every thing muffler/piping/chrome tips = $475

do those numbers sound about right to u guys

RyansQuick6 · 05-09-2008, 02:10 PM

That sounds pretty good to me.

mysteed · 05-09-2008, 02:34 PM

Despite what he said, I would go with your original plan of cutting the pipes after the cat and running true duals straight back. The prices seem about right (depending on where you live that is).

l_shizzle_l · 05-09-2008, 07:36 PM

You will pass inspection as long as you keep your cats and don'thave dumps.

moontang · 05-09-2008, 07:40 PM

+1 to shizzle

price sound nearish do a bit more searching i found prices ranging from 350 to 600 in my area

fordforlife0225 · 05-09-2008, 08:31 PM

yea im going to go to a couple more places and see what they tell me. that was just the second place i been. the first was crazy he wanted 500 in labor alone because he said it would take him a day and a half to do a true dual set up

RyansQuick6 · 05-09-2008, 09:02 PM

Honestly the one muffler and split to 2 pipes may sound better than having 2 mufflers, due to not losing as much backpressure.

fordforlife0225 · 05-10-2008, 10:47 AM

thanks for all the advice im going in in a few hours to get it done iv decided to just pay the 475 and have them do the single in dual out super 40 and all the piping

quiksilver00 · 05-10-2008, 11:17 AM

hey man get another quote because if you really think thats kinda high. A general price for them to do it all should be around 250 ish. Not 475, id check with all the other local shops.

TurtleSLow · 05-10-2008, 01:54 PM

it shouldnt take a day and a half lmfao! i know how muffler shops work and the work it takes to fab a true dual.. my cousin owns one

i would just go with your original idea. tell him to shove it if he tells you its gonna take a day and a half to bend two pipes to connect the cats to the muffler and weld

i found my GT take offs on cragslist and got them for 40 bucks. mufflers and tailpipes im sure you could find gt take offs for cheap, and pick up those knock off flowmasters cus they sound the same, and then all the shop has to do is put it up, and bend two pipes and weld

my shop only wanted 120 to install the whole thing and connect the mufflers to the cats