Custom 2.5" Piping

[Flanders]

Re: Custom 2.5" Piping

I sure wish there was a good Cdn distributor for Miltek :(

[Canadian Turbo]

Re: Custom 2.5" Piping

ummm Milltek

[Kor]

Re: Custom 2.5" Piping

So I had to go buy some new hangers and they had to take it apart and adjust it. So another day without my car and getting rides to the shop etc. In the end it took about 2 months of fiddling before everything was right. Now the shop that did it handled it very well, and like I said, the quality was really good, but I don't think they were prepared for a supercharged engine. Now, had I gone with a Brullen (or other popular makes) fitment, sound, heat would have (for the most part, sorry to hear about your fitment issues Kor) been researched and I coulda had a new exhaust in about a day. The one thing that was nice about the custom way was the quality of the material, much much better than what you'll usually find out there.

Its not all fuzzy warm when you buy an exhaust out of the box either! I was sure that TT was one of the most popular Vortex exhausts. Its been months and I have been in to C1 three times, and its still not right (tips are now off-center). The hangers that came with this thing are absolutely crap, my exhaust is still not properly positioned or secured underneath the car! Plus it didn't fit properly into my rear valence without a lot of extra effort by the guys at C1. Moreover, after spirited driving I can hear this thing popping and creaking due to expansion/contraction of the welds. Yeah I've made it fit "more-or-less" but I wouldn't go this route again.

Perhaps a compromise is the best solution. Buy a quality cat, resonator and muffler that you know work well with VW's. Then have the piping and fitting done by a good muffler shop. Materials and fit of the pipes and hangers are just not going to be as good with any out-of-the-box system. On Vortex lots of people say that you should get chain exhaust hangers as soon as you change our your exhaust - something that I definitely didn't know ahead of time.

I also suspect that a real muffler shop will take LESS time with the install of any of these components, and so you will end up paying less for shop-labour.


For anyone thinking about ordering an exhaust, I hear Autotech is pretty good...

[Tuna]

Re: Custom 2.5" Piping

Perhaps a compromise is the best solution. Buy a quality cat, resonator and muffler that you know work well with VW's. Then have the piping and fitting done by a good muffler shop. Materials and fit of the pipes and hangers are just not going to be as good with any out-of-the-box system. On Vortex lots of people say that you should get chain exhaust hangers as soon as you change our your exhaust - something that I definitely didn't know ahead of time.

I also suspect that a real muffler shop will take LESS time with the install of any of these components, and so you will end up paying less for shop-labour.


For anyone thinking about ordering an exhaust, I hear Autotech is pretty good...

That's funny you mention the chain hangers, that's what I had to go buy, the stock ones couldn't handle the extra weight of the system.

I think a good route would finding stuff that will work and get it professionally installed. The problem I see with that is you won't have any idea what it's going to sound like. I definetley think the quality of a "custom" system (as long as you state what kind of material you want) will be better.

Live and learn I guess.

[QuA]

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Calgary Muffler cant do 2.5" mandrel bend. Too big for them they said.

In retrospect I find myself wondering how much it would have cost to have a local shop custom-fabricate a 2.5 (or larger) cat-back. Calgary Muffler by chinook mall can mandrel bend pipe (I've heard). You should do it. If I was doing it again I might go even larger than 2.5"... after all, its underneath the car, why not?

--
Kris

[Simon]

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go somewhere that does alot of muscle cars, they have like 3.5" mandrel bent exhausts

[Kor]

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If you find somewhere, post it up. Custom is the way to go. I still want my TT re-fitted.

[tex_the_t_rex]

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I think the two most popular exhaust on the vortex would have to be miltek and GHL.

When I get my exhaust done, I plan on running a 3" GHL. The quality is way better then almost all the other "bolt on" exhaust systems I've seen. Plus now they have a quiter version. I just wish we had a distributor for GHL up here.

[R_Ethug]

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i'm switiching from my brullen to the APR system whenever C1 gets apr lol

[1.8Trip]

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i'm switiching from my brullen to the APR system whenever C1 gets apr lol

When is that gonna happen?

[R_Ethug]

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if it doesn't happen by march or april i'm going revo

[Bora1.8TMan]

Material for custom piping

I'm reviving this thread to try to find out what type of stainless steel or other steel I should have the custom piping made out of?

Power is most important--quieter is better, but what do Miltek and TT use for their piping?
Is anything better?

[Simon]

Re: Material for custom piping

I'm reviving this thread to try to find out what type of stainless steel or other steel I should have the custom piping made out of?

Power is most important--quieter is better, but what do Miltek and TT use for their piping?
Is anything better?

get it made out of stainless steel. the other option is aluminum but it dissipates heat too quickly (you want it to not dissipate heat, beacuse hot air = fast air) and corrodes.

everyone of the major kits all use stainless steel. (APR, TT, milltek etc)

[Tuna]

Re: Material for custom piping

I'm reviving this thread to try to find out what type of stainless steel or other steel I should have the custom piping made out of?

Power is most important--quieter is better, but what do Miltek and TT use for their piping?
Is anything better?

I think it was 6061 Stainless I used. Pretty nice stuff, but harder to weld so you want someone that knows what they are doing (so i'm told)

Also, has anyone checked out the Minute Muffler (I think it's a minute muffler) on 17th Ave. and 52nd N.E.? I know I know it's in the "hood" blah blah but I got some work done by them and so did Simon L, I think they have done some stuff for WoW Muscle cars and stuff. It wouldn't hurt to call them and see. They have a big album of exhausts they have done for different cars, everything from Chevelles to GS400's.

Jason

[Bora1.8TMan]

Re: Material for custom piping

So, what about T-304 stainless steel?
What exactly is the difference between the T304 and the 6061??