Danger to Manifold! (courtesy of Dave YO)
 

So I finally pieced together the parts I needed to replace my old and bruk-up exhaust set up. My old DC ceramic coated header served it's time and with 2 cracks on it needed replacing. My beloved Apexi WS exhaust was the quietest ever but it hung too low (I know the feeling) and got scraped to hell and after 4 winters was finally rusting. Since I'm pretty much done with spending any money on the car, scheduled maintenance is what I told the wife this was. Got a brand new Megan Racing SS header for USD$100 and Vibrant was nice enough to hook me up with an axleback.

So off I went to visit Dave YO in Hamstertown to do the custom piping and install. After driving around for most of the afternoon and spending the whole night doing the fancy work, here are the results!

Here's the exhaust off and next to the lovely 10feet of stainless steel piping:
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here's how you ruin a perfectly good header.. cut it in half:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9936/dsc00610yz3.jpg

why you ask? to do the H-T.com approved collector mod of course:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/5038/dsc00613rd0.jpg

bottleneck no more!
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/9486/dsc00615kp7.jpg

mocking it up before final welding:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1270/dsc00617no7.jpg

and the result:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8126/dsc00622rr0.jpg
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4176/dsc00625zv3.jpg
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8508/dsc00626wk4.jpg

and after one night's driving, it's already starting to change into that lovely shade of west indian brown... lol
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/5732/dsc00627gp8.jpg


thanks for all your work Dave! :D

very nice, Dave Yo is the ----!

Ahem...Ian no mention of who occupied you for almost 2 hours on Dave's msn...lol

Great job Dave!

lmao! west indian brown! nice work dave! exhaust looks great

Dave Yo has a mandrel bender?

..................and Ian, I see that you have resorted to the *cheaper* mods now that you are a home owner with a wifey (hehehehehe)

he has the strength of a greek god and is able to bend anything..

dave, you got the mandrel bender??

nope we bought the mandrel bend from a local exhaust shop

oh yes and thank you to Amanda for occupying my time on MSN while I was waiting... :D

Wayne: tell me about it! modding the house is way more expensive... lol

Looks good Ian

Dave Yo just gives the piping a mean stare and it bends to the way he wants it.

Dave Yo > CHuck Norris > Vin Diesel

i hear that once it was too sunny out outside so chuck norris round house kicked the sun and sent the earth into a anti-gravitational spin.

looks hawt ian!.. no more baller status mods eh?

i heard Chuck Norris does not sleep....... He waits.

so does dave...

Dave doesn't wait, He climbs

Looking good Ian

dave yo is.... da man

nice work ian