matt1289

I have been looking for an exhaust shop in OKC that will make a mandrel ORY with a flowmaster merge collector. I cant seem to find one that even has a mandrel bender or I get told they can't do it with the flowmaster merge collector because theres not enough room.

So I know there is enough room since people do it all the time. If anyone knows a place that can do this for a reasonable price please let me know. I would perfer not to have to order an ORY. I know it will fit just not as good.

A performance shop that I can take my future business to would be great to.

Thanks

wtomlinson

iTrader: (6)

don't go to Champion Muffler. it's in MWC (anyone from OK can agree that it's all 'the city'). if you look at some of the x-pipe related threads, you'll see pictures of what they did to my h-pipe. i have more clearance where my dumps are than i do in the front by my headers.

matt1289

Yeah I went there to ask them if they could do it and told me there wasn't enough clearance for an ORY with a flowmaster merge collector lol. They didn't have a mandrel bender anyway.

wtomlinson

iTrader: (6)

yeah they also said i couldn't run an h-pipe "let alone an x-pipe". after arguing with him for about 20 minutes, i went home, printed off like 3 random pictures from ls1sounds.com and brought them back and said "yes, you can run it like this". then they [attempted] to make me an h-pipe, and severely fucked up the driver's side right at the collector. it looks so ugly from the side. if i had money i'd pay someone out here in cali to fix it and make it nicer.

wtomlinson

iTrader: (6)

here's the link to the pictures i took about a week after they did that.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/11533314-post522.html

matt1289

I think I might just order an edelbrock y-pipe and modify it a little to fit. It doesnt cost that much everyone says it fits good and seem to have a worth a **** merge.

wtomlinson

iTrader: (6)

i got tired of scraping on mine, so i took it off this weekend. after a few hours of my time, 3 dremel cutting wheels, a broken flathead screwdriver tip, and a lot of cuts on my arm, this is what i have.

if you're wondering why one side looks all cut up, it's because i told them this exactly: "i want to be able to easily remove this if i need to, so please don't make welds on my headers". what do you think they did when i wasn't looking? i had to take a flathead a lot and try and pry the exhaust from the weld, so now there's a little ding in my headers.

and in the picture, notice how there's only ONE spot, ONE SPOT in the whole exhaust, where i scrape. that spot happens to be right by my driver's side header.

matt1289

I just ended up ordering a y-pipe and the next day I found a performance shop off the NW expressway close to were I live rrr go figure lol. I still have to modify the edelbrock one order anyway since they have a 3.5 inch slip over and not a 3 inch.

I am so tired of exhaust shops around here. It's so funny how many people hate working on f-body. There not that bad.

wtomlinson

iTrader: (6)

what shop did you find? everytime i'm home i never get to have enough time to find anywhere.

matt1289

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