exhaust question

[immortal1kon]

hey guys just recently the plate inside my resonator broke nad now my exhaust has a tendency to make an annoying rattling noise. i am having a hard time finding ant sti catback to replace my exhuast so i figured i owuld ask....

do any of you guys know or have experiance with mieneke or any muffler shops. i wanted to know a ballpark figure or ifits even worth asking them to do a custom cat back of just a mid pipe at that.

in all honesty im pretty broke right now and wanna find the cheapest way to have a decent sound with no resonator rattle.

[sexystover]

either buy the parts/peices u need and have a friend weld it for free or like a case of beer or something, or take it to a meineke or something they are usually a couple hundred dollars to get a catback done if u bring the muffler

[AkumaMax]

go to a hole in the wall place. I don't trust places like mieneke(sp?) I got to my local hole in the wall mexican place. Cheap price great quality!!!

[immortal1kon]

how can i tell when i have arrived at a hole in the wall place? i live in washington D.C. area haha. does the name give it away or is it the people haha ?

well this post was to mostly see if anyone here has tried it nad to get a ballpark for a custom bent exhaust by a muffler shop.

figured it wouldn't cost too much since the midpipe only has one real bend and the muffler was gonig to be an sti muffler so basically i am just getting a midpipe made.

any thoughts i would like all the help i could get maybe some different options i havent looked into?

[Huffer]

Midpipe $80
STi axleback $75
Fabrication $35
TOTAL $185

This was done for me, in about 2-3 hours by a place that does exhausts, nothing else.

I probably should have got them to ditch the 2nd cat as well, but I forgot and was in a hurry.

[immortal1kon]

if i was to do that same setup up if i ditch the cat would i need to have them put a pipe with a o2 bung so i can just use spacers or something so no CEL

[sexystover]

idk if a shop would do that because its illegal

just get a high flow cat

[xXGTBspecXx]

+1 it is illegal($10,000 fine for each cat removed)and i am having this same setup as huffer except i have a wrx 3 1/2 inch catback with a 5 inch slant tip

[jey]

Yeah I had my custom 3" exhaust done at Meineke, but I knew the owner and he personally did the work. I think it ended up being $300 including a high-flow muffler and a stainless steel tip.

[J.McDonald Knives]

http://www.nolimitmotorsport.com/prod/bor-14885

Borla Cat back exhaust.

[AkumaMax]

http://www.nolimitmotorsport.com/prod/bor-14885

Borla Cat back exhaust.

Not feeling the dual tip's! BTW you could have had that made with the same Muffler for about half that price.

[J.McDonald Knives]

According to the description it only has one tip. Unless I read wrong.

[Huffer]

It's a single tip. Akuma failed to read and just looks at the pics, which are not representative anyway.

[AkumaMax]

ooops.....My bad!

[immortal1kon]

yeah new question is there a big difference in driving preformance or lack of preformance if i was to weld up a 3" pipe to a borla hush muffler well it's a borla hush catback dual tip

[Huffer]

3" is too big for a normally aspirated car. You'll sound fast, but that's about it.

[AkumaMax]

yeah new question is there a big difference in driving preformance or lack of preformance if i was to weld up a 3" pipe to a borla hush muffler well it's a borla hush catback dual tip

Think of it like as if you take a tube and blow air into it. The bigger the tube the more air you have to push through. But yet your car only output a certain amount. For a car that is not Turboed or supercharged I would go up to a max of 2.5" but a 2.25" should work best with our cars.