ktm Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) When I completed my build back in July 2011, my neighbor across the street recommended an exhaust shop relatively close by. My neighbor has had numerous street rods, primarily original '30s, and this shop was (supposedly) frequented by hot rodders. However, over the course of the past year, I noticed numerous issues with their work ranging from incomplete welds around pipes that allowed air intrusion before the O2 sensors, hangers breaking and leaving holes in the pipe, rigid hangers that transmitted all vibrations to the cabin, numerous transistions with crushed bent pieces, clearance issues with low hanging exhaust, and to top it all off, a Flowmaster CLONE was installed instead of a true Flowmaster. Many of my performance and tuning issues were due to this rather crappy exhaust system. I just had a new system installed by Roger's Exhaust in Fontana, California. I originally wanted Roger's to do my first install, but the towing charge would have been around $200. My neighbor offered to tow my car in his enclosed trailer to the shop close by and at the time the shop close by made sense. Lesson learned. Roger's Exhaust is talked about highly on LS1tech.com and they seem to have a lot of postive reviews. I spent the entire day at their shop. They were forthright with their pricing and Roger's brother Sparky did the entire fabrication. His welds are fantastic and he has a lot of pride in his work. They managed to tuck the exhaust up another 0.75 to 1-in. using all mandrel bent pieces, added a nice spiral flow resonator (which was DEFINITELY needed - the drone at 1700 rpm rattled my brain), built a custom Y-pipe, and topped it off with a Flowmaster muffler. Below are the pictures and link to a sound clip. For those of you in So. Cal. looking for a shop that does nice exhaust work, check out Roger's Exhaust in Fontana. Edited June 6, 2012 by ktm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldAndyAndTheSea Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Sounds wicked!!! Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
559240z Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Looks real good , what wheels are those and size please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 The wheels are Rota Grid Offroad, 16x8 +10 Here is the original exhaust. It is a bit more hollow compared to the new exhaust which seems to have a fair bit more lower frequencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
559240z Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Thank's man those wheels look great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverenough Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Is it dual 2.5 into single 3 inch? What did they charge for the exhaust? Sounds and looks great BTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 Correct, 2.5-in. into a single 3-in. The exhaust cost $590 and includes two thick laser cut flanges for the collectors, 4 O2 sensor bungs, all mandrel bent pipe, 3-in. spiral core resonator, all hangers, and the muffler. Well worth it in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluDestiny Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 That's worth it for mandrel bent and pretty much a full exhaust fabrication and a muffler and resonator. Mine cost me $280 with pretty much a full header back 2.5in with a flowmaster super40. The muffler itself was over $100 of that, and it had 2 vband clamps in it that were $30 each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Sounds sweet man ! Where in SoCal are you ? I'm up in the high desert(Victorville). I'm building a turbo LS 4.8 for my 260z. What diff are you running ? I'm in the process of doing a R200/VLSD swap. And I could use a little help/insight on making my stand alone harness/pcm. Hit me up ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritrebor Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Nice system. About how much ground clearance at the y-pipe do you have? thanks ritrebor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUNNY Z Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Nice system. About how much ground clearance at the y-pipe do you have? thanks ritrebor LOL I bet he has tons. Kinda makes me wish I'd left my car stock height...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebekahsZ Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 What is the system painted with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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