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Howdy,
I just purchased a 1999 Contour SE Sport with 2.5 ATX.. and was wondering if anyone in the area coulod recommend a good muffler shop that is familiar with Contours? I had work dont on my old Volvo at LEonards, but I think that the Quasi Dual setup might be a bit much for them, and they wont install parts you bring in... Or if anyone here has a Stock SVT exhaust they want to unload, let me know!! thanks!!

Leonard's Garage near Research Blvd (it's actually on Jamestown or something like that) cut the resonator on my SVT. If you find a SVT exhaust somewhere, they're not hard to install yourself. I've thought about selling mine for an aftermarket unit but I want to pay off some debts first.

Well ive had Leonard's down south do a custom job on my Volvo. I was hoping to do something along the lines of chuck's exhaust.. cut the y-pipe into a dual inlet cat, then back to an exhaust like the SVT stock one, but with a better y section(or maybe a dual like Cardoc's with a Flowmaster 40)...But Im trying to keep it under $600 i think..(not sure.. lotsa layoffs in the IT sector right now.. so it might have to wait!) What do you think??? (I plan on gutting the pre-cats and installing some homemade MIL eliminators too... )

SHOShop's y-pipe eliminates the actual y-pipe and just feeds the two exhaust manifolds into a dual-inlet cat. Can't recommend it though, as I believe that eliminating the 180-degree bend lost power on the dyno. Better off going with the MSDS headers and y-pipe combo. I think those run around $500.

The y-split in the rear could use an improvement. All the aftermarket cat-backs have different but better setups. Might want to see if Leonard's can copy them or something.