can anyone recommend a good muffler shop in the sac area? going to be wanting a custom exhaust made for my legacy, and i'm afraid i'm not too familiar with the shops around here.

if anyone has an idea on pricing for a 2.5" mandrel bent stainless steel (with hangers and flanges of course) set up (including cost of installing the muffler), that would be helpful too!

 

if you go to marco muffler over off of greenback, they will do that for around pboyl 150 or so.. my friend had a muffler and he took it to them and they did 2.5' pipe, hangers, and they had to convert the pipes in spots going from 2.5-3" piping... and they did it for i think it was 140 and they will put in flanges for like 10 or 15 bux...

 

Ya, I usually go to marco muffler too. They have a couple of shops around here. I don't think they have mandrel bent piping though, you probably need a performance shop willing to use cut pieces of mandrel piping to make an exhaust.

 

muffler tech and brake can do good things for you. they're not cheap though.

 

hmm, well that $150 sounds pretty good, but if it's not mandrel bent, then i probably don't want to go that route.

how much would Muffler Tech and Brake charge?

 

BTW, what year is your legacy?

 

it's a '95 L AWD wagon with the 2.2.

going to be using a OBX muffler, 2.5" straight through

 

2.5" is a little big. 2.25" is ideal for N/A scoobs.

 

muffler tech has no mandrel bender fyi.

 

Is that the place that did the catback with the magnaflow muffler for your old WRX? If so, they did an *** job, as me and Nate found out when we went to retrofit it to my red legacy They welded the stock donut flange and about 2" of tubing inside of the 3" exhaust, it was retarded.

 

They did a craptastic job on my old car as well. The exhaust pipe just behind the muffler hung down so low that it would scrape on speed bumps when the car was not all that low - I had Prodrive springs on the car at the time.

 

really? i kept hearing accord guys saying that they were using 2.5" piping with their F22s, i figured the EJ22 would use the same piping. i guess that's not as big a deal though.

 

hmm, sounds like i shouldn't be using them at all then. does anyone have any other suggestions? it's actually starting to sound like i should just have the muffler welded on to my stock piping. =/

 

I'm using a WRX midpipe on my '95 Impreza L, in conjunction with a stock STI muffler. The wrx midpipe is 2.25" in diameter and has a resonator (and is mandrel bent of course since its stock) but it has to be lengthened/modified slightly to fit to the stock cat section (pic here: http://community.webshots.com/photo/...50919587SQQXds and here http://community.webshots.com/photo/...50920062PaqaVD )

The STI muffler has 2.25" piping as well, which lines up just right with the WRX midpipe and makes a nice seam. But, this setup is not loud at all, and probably doesnt make too much power but its better than dink stock piping.

WRX/STI/etc. stock exhaust go for cheap in the classified section, and it costs about $40 to have it re-welded/extended to fit, so its a non-expensive option.

Although, I did just realize I still have a full custom exhaust sitting in the attic. that might work on your legacy... Pic: http://community.webshots.com/photo/...50916115sIYxyl

What do the muffler hangars look like on your car?

 

ooww...i like that extra exhaust setup.
somehting i've thought of doing for a while...
too bad mine isn't dual port [kicks 2.2l single port for good measure]
i'd make you an offer if it was.

was that setup quiet?

now i'm curious...how much you looking for the catback section?
i've got a 3" borla race muffler and full stainless tubing that i was going to dice up and reweld for my setup, but i'm affraid it's gonna be too loud.
if this is a reasonable price it might save me the time and hassle.

P M me y0.