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Old 05-12-17, 01:31 PM
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For those of you that live in New England I would say that most have heard of Lou's Exhaust Shop, if not they specialize in custom exhaust for most vehicles and other fabrication. My question is, has anyone been there before for a custom exhaust and if so anything good to say about them? They quoted me $400 for parts and labor for a catback exhaust so just wondering if that's a good deal or not?
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im no where near new England but for $400 for a custom catback is a super steal, granted depends on the quality piping they use and how good their welds will be. but at that price its a steal IMO
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Is it stainless steel? Cats included?
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in for updates in the MA area. I know a couple people who have gone through them before and never heard a complaint.
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I believe it is stainless steel. As for cats not to sure. It would be straight piped
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Everything that is made by hand these days is custom. Everytime I go to the bathroom it is custom and frankly better then the junk Lou's calls custom exhaust. The price reflects the quality and for $400 you can't even buy a replacement exhaust for a 92' Jeep Cherokee at the auto parts store so try to figure out how Lou's does it. The only super steal is your money getting stolen for a piece of junk exhaust.
Anything short of mandrel bent, back purged and tig welded stainless steel exhaust is going to be a step in the wrong direction. If you want custom just buy one of the well build systems already avalible for this car and chop something out of it or call Figs and ask him about his truly custom exhaust.
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Wow. So no resonator or mufflers? Pure straight pipes all the way back?
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To RCB, you said you own an automotive shop, do you guys do anything related to custom exhaust? If so I'd rather go to a fellow member to have it done.

To kojak, yeah they said they can delete resonators and mufflers for the whole $400
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If it sounds too good to be true, it's probably too good to be true.

Modifications that are well engineered are usually not cheap.
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Do they do mandrel or crush bend. That's important.

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So I just found out the quote of $400 was for aluminum, for stainless it would be roughly $600 or so they said. I forgot to ask about the mandrel or crush bend when I pass by again I'll ask them.
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Which one did you go to? They quoted me like few hundred bucks to cut out the mufflers and run straight pipes. I havent done anything yet
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Originally Posted by kolyan
Which one did you go to? They quoted me like few hundred bucks to cut out the mufflers and run straight pipes. I havent done anything yet
The first time I went to their main branch in manchester, NH
then the second time I passed by the one in North Andover, MA since it's only 10 mins from me.
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Originally Posted by V8Juice
So I just found out the quote of $400 was for aluminum, for stainless it would be roughly $600 or so they said. I forgot to ask about the mandrel or crush bend when I pass by again I'll ask them.
Dont waste your time its crush bends. Save yourself the headache and buy a borla or joe Z and have RCB install it. He does all my work and is a straight shooter no BS.
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Anyone down to meet up, I happen to have tomorrow off 5/24/17 so was seeing if anyone in the area was available to meet. If not I can do this Saturday coming up as well

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