Need To Weld Up An Exhaust.

[peterman]

Hey guys,

I need to get an exhaust welded up for my daily driver.  The cat is rattling around pretty badly and I'm down on power.  Also got a pretty heavy exhaust smell.  I'm pretty sure its clogged and to top it off, the PO put on some other exhaust/cat which is crap (assuming a midas universal type thing) so I'll have to start from the down tubes and go all the way back.  Any suggestions for a place in the DC/NOVA area?

 

Thanks,

Pete

[M3M3M3]

Mandrel Bend Solutions in Pasedena, Md if you care about your DD and want it done right.  they did all the custom work on my M2.

 

any midas shop if you just want to kill the noise...;-)

[peterman]

Great, thanks for the info.  Midas already turned me down saying they'd have to make stock exhaust again, blah blah blah, 1600 bucks.... not thanks.

 

I'll check these guys out.

[M3M3M3]

yikes.  that is almost twice what i paid MBS for a full custom stainless system.

[ClayW]

 The cat is rattling around pretty badly and I'm down on power. 

 

For clarity, are we talking about a 2002?

[M3M3M3]

no.  it is his DD....an e30 i believe.

[peterman]

Marshall's right. An e30 4 door. Although, the '02 gives off a pretty good cabin odor too. Yikes 2 exhaust systems! I may just have them do a full custom job on the e30 and hold off on the 02. She needs other work too. That didn't include headers did it? That would be a steal.

Thanks,

Pete

[M3M3M3]

no headers, but included y-pipe, 406 stainless tubing, borla front muffler and magnaflow rear muffler.  all mandrel bent on site.  they are one of two places in the country that have the machines to do mandrel bends to any angle on site. everyone else buys prebent tube and welds together pieces.

 

if you call, ask for greg.  he did mine. great to work with.

[peterman]

Sounded like nice guys when they finally picked up the phone.  I'm setting up an appointment with them once my headers from IE get here.  New full exhaust here we come.

[peterman]

Hey Guys, 

Just wanted to give a little credit to the guys at Mandrel Bending Solutions.
http://mandrelbend.com/

They did a pretty stellar job on the car.  They even cleaned up the collector welds on on my IE headers and cut and re-welded the down pipes so they fit over the e36 motor mounts.
Anyway, I got a full stainless custom exhaust with a high flow cat, an good sounding muffler (just a little low pitched for my liking)  and headers installed for under $1k.  I'd certainly recommend them for work.

-Pete

[M3M3M3]

glad you had a good experience with MBS!  got any pics of your new system?

[peterman]

Just the tailpipe    

I'll be sure to take some.  I was just under the car hosing off all the road salt.  I'll be doing that again this upcomming weekend so I'll snap some along with the headers.

 

Pete