Ballerado

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Looking to get a custom y-pipe fabbed up. The one I have now is straight garbage. I have a 3'' to 4'' flowmaster merge I plan on using along with running 4'' pipe from the merge right up to the axle. Are there any shops in the Houston area (southside would be better) that does good quality work, AND does mandrel bends? Looking to have this setup nice and tucked, so I need to find someone thats able to work with crappy clearance of fbodys. You can pm me numbers and names to shops. thanks!

02CamaroSSLE

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i 2nd for this. i need a good exhaust shop to tuck my tips and fix where my y pipe and i pipe meet.

Chrismikeb

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+3

My **** hangs too low and the axle bangs on it...very annoying

onspeed

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Supposedly Ripley's Muffler on 1960 and Kykendahl is one of the few shops in TX with a mandrel bender. Never had pipes bent by them, but I've had several exhaust stuff welded by them and the welds are pretty good.

Ballerado

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yeah, so ripley's certainly does mandrel bends, I just got off the phone with them. But if you are looking to do anything with no cats they said the car must show up on a trailer, leave on a trailer, and have no inspection. Plus I got a rough quote for a y-pipe using my flowmaster merge with a 4'' intermediate pipe for like 6-700 bones. Just an fyi to those of yall who posted here. I think I can live with crush bends untill I ditch the headers im running now.

1965GP

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Ripleys did my 70 and I don't feel they lived up to the hype.

All bolts on manifolds broke (not their fault- but they could have soaked with PB blaster), I had to replace manifold (couldn't pay them $175 to do it), and it cost over $400 while I provided mufflers and tips. On top of that tips were not level. This was traditional bends, not mandrel.

Welds were very high quality though... Maybe I am just cheap.