After going through two of these, a sheared middle pipe and constant problems of having the exhuast hanger come loose, I decided it was time for an upgrade.




yes, it exploded. less then a year old too.


I ran out of argon... . DOH! so I will be doing the last two joints again and trimming one of the pipes to tuck it up a little better.


The welds with argon look a whole lot better then the ONE that you can see.








my 1 7/8 to 3 inch adapter . .. LOL now I've got to build an engine to make full use of the exhuast!


The one real disapointment I had with the K Teller system is that even though it was mandrel bent, one of the bends had some large ripples. . .

all in all the magnaflow is a great improvement on the old system which was just a resonator and a flexpipe out the side. At 50mph there's viturally no cabin noise, at 70mph 3k RPM, it gets pretty noisey though.


Modified by eHoward at 4:50 AM 9/18/2004

 

Nice work man, especially the stock to 3" adaptor. That is just a great, it reminds me of one of those little ***** in a cup How much did that all cost?

 

Talk about a bottleneck

Is that part of the old resonator you used for that adapter? haha

anyways, looks good. Go build a motor for it now!

 

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hahahah I ran out of argon on my very last weld while I was putting my kteller 3" in... thank god it was just a hanger and you cant see it.

Heres some pics of mine:

 

Nice welds

 

that huge *** adapter looks so funny...why did you go so big in size?

 

YUP! Will do.

I went 3 inch because I plan to make some horsepower with a turbo.

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Is that part of the old resonator you used for that adapter? haha

anyways, looks good. Go build a motor for it now!</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

Very clean welds!

 

how much money and where do you get this exhaust?

 

$225 for the piping from Kteller.com plus shipping
$90 for the muffler from kteller.com
$80 or so for the flexpipe from JCwhitney.com
$25 or so for argon and filler metal.

so $420 plus some shipping.

First person who tells me I should have bought an off the shelf bolt up system gets hit.

 

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$90 for the muffler from kteller.com
$80 or so for the flexpipe from JCwhitney.com
$25 or so for argon and filler metal.

so $420 plus some shipping.

First person who tells me I should have bought an off the shelf bolt up system gets hit.</TD></TR></TABLE>
you should have gotten a JDM exhaust YO!
how long is that magnaflow muffler?
stan

 

It is a 5 by 8 oval that is 14 inches long.

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how long is that magnaflow muffler?
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the engine is going to be JDM YO! Blingity Bling so I think thats good enough for me.

 

I paid for a 3" Kteller myself with resonator and Es oval muffler

I dont have a welder though, how much would a shop charge me to do all that?

 

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perfect it should fit in the passenger side in place of my round one (NEED MORE SOUND DAMPING!!)
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I dont have a welder though, how much would a shop charge me to do all that?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Mike's system is a slip-on, you could get away with clamps alone.
stan

 

what are the benefits to this system compared to an off the shelf system? i want a real quiet exhaust..like oem loudness. would this be a system to get?

 

danm looks clean bro!!

 

The benefit for me was I saved about a hundred bucks over off the shelf. I also wanted something that was 3 inch from the manifold all the way back which is tough to find. I also didn't want to touch the exhuast for a long time so I tried to buy all 304 stainless stuff.(unfortunately the flanges and hangers are mild!)

I had heard some bad things about Thermal recently. I heard nothing almost all praise for KTeller. I have to say those ripples are lame though.

So that's why I did what I did.

It is NOT oem loudness.

If you want something quiet, you really shouldn't look at straight thru mufflers. Something chambered might work nice. I had looked at some flowmasters before buying the magnaflow but couldn't find an alloy that I wanted. You might want to check their stuff out. You'll want to do a resonator also. A cat helps quiet things down a lot too. TONS of options out there.

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I'd wager a hundred or two. Most shops wont tig your exhaust though. You'll most likely end up with mig or stick welds.

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I dont have a welder though, how much would a shop charge me to do all that?</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

thanks alot for the info..
i liek the idea of the exhaust and the look...
is the flex pipe necessary? or could i go header&gt;test pipe&gt;cat(testpipe) back exhaust?

 

For me the flexpipe is necessary. I think the problems I had with the car were due to the kid that had the car before me taking it to midas and having them hack the stock flexpipe off.

 

looks good, cant wait to find the time to install mine, to kteller and quality piping

 

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If you go with the stainless exhaust from kteller does it have to be tig'd? Is it okay for a meineke shop to just mig it like any other mild steel exhaust?

Vince

 

$420? damm thats kinda of expensive

you should of bought a full exhaust system, that doesnt look clean at all. thats jus my opinion, do what you gotta do

 

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If you go with the stainless exhaust from kteller does it have to be tig'd? Is it okay for a meineke shop to just mig it like any other mild steel exhaust?

Vince</TD></TR></TABLE>

Nope it can me migged.

Just wondering, why the clamp and the weld then ? I'm gonna start making exhaust setups and just wanted to know

 

Nothing's wrong with mig welding, just make sure they use the right spool. Let the shop know you have 304 stainless pipe and want stainless fill I might even find what welder they use and buy the appropriate filler metal, but I'm slightly nuts.

Another approach would be not to care about the welds and save a couple bucks and buy the mild system and a bottle of rattlecan and paint it after it's welded to prevent rust.

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