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Brad, no H-pipe?

Is it a cop caller? (Read somewhere that the h-pipe mellows the sound to the human ear...)

Rachel,
there are two ways to bend pipe, one is to crush bend and the other is mandrel bent.
Crush bent is seen here. If you'll look at where the pipe is bent, you'll notice how the pipe is ripply. The best way for me to describe it is to take a straw, this would be the tailpipe, and bend it around a smooth edge, like a dinner table.
The straw get's bent, but the inside bend is not smooth, thus restricting air flow and changing the diameter of the straw.
It works very well, but isn't the best.

Mandrel bent, not sure exactly how it's done, but the pipe stays the same diameter and smooth all the way throughout. This is the best way to go as it doesn't restrict air flow. The only drawback is the cost to do this.
Hope this helps,
Mike

Would love to hear the sound. Too bad you don't have a clip.

I got it done at Masterbend in Summerville. Total was $350 with muffler. I'd have rather gotten Mandrel bends but I get only what I can find around here. Brad, if I knew how to weld, I'd have gone that route, but no skills.
Sounds great. Been a week now, and it sounds better. The only prob has been a hanger that wasn't welded completely and it rattled. Quick weld, and sweetness.

Brad, how tight is the exhaust around your gas tank? Does it hang low?

69Boss302, not yet. Actually, can you get me the info for the body shop in Moncks Corner again? I lost it when I put XP on the PC. Need body work soon for the new trunk for the spoiler!

Allen's Paint and Body
843-761-6144(rings both in the shop and in the house) Let it ring for awhile, since dad maybe out in the yard or something.
Mike

No time to find the proper H-pipe location yet to match the pulse waves. Need some paint and a nice warm up on the engine to see where to place it. A badly placed H-pipe is worse for performance than no H-pipe at all. With the small mufflers I chose and an exhaust leak at the rear manifold, it was pretty loud. I've got resonators to put on it, but just haven't had the time yet. Still better sounding than my 3" SMA quasi-dual I had before that.

The MIG that I use takes almost no skill to operate... uh, as long as the wire feed motor isn't stuck on high anyway causing obscene spatter. (Bird crap welded CAI for reference)

Fit is tight around the gas tank. I had to trim a couple of spots on the heat shield to bend them up, but I still use the factory hangers in those locations. The rear isn't quite finished on my car, since it's hung with tie wraps for now... O.K., they've been hung that way since before Spring Zing, but I've been busy!!! :p

A huge gain in performance too. Not even compareable to any quasi dual system I've had on the car, including a modded SVT exhaust system, the SMA, and another custom job.

Thank you for answering my question... that did help i had no idea what yall were talkin about.. now i kno for future references what it means just incase i decide to get a new exhaust system in my SVT so thanks again