What's up everyone! My name is Jimmy. I own a fabrication shop in Buena Park. I'm literally 3 doors down from Ross's shop (MidNight Garage), which alot of you know. Since he's moved in next to me, we've been exchanging alot of work, (awesome guy!) so I figured I'd post up the custom 3" mandrel exhaust I built for one of his customers turbo'd TC.

The exhaust was built from the turbo housing all the way back to his axle back exhaust which he will be changing in the future. 3" all the way, 100% TIG welded, total of 3 o2 bungs were added as well as new flanges and hangers.

Pics:

Old exhaust system:

 

Start of the new exhaust:

 

why all the pie cuts.. i didint have any?

 

nice work.

 

just noticed its not SS

 

It happens, good work for DIY.

 

Flanges are welded inside and out!

 

hmmmm.. ELEVATION holla at me for the 3 inch exhaust when u get ahold of ur friend!

 

Nice work.

One day i will upgrade to 3'' down and s pipes.

 

i want a full 3 inch exhaust asap lol

 

not bad, using more bends would have been better though.

 

you guys should do a vband... my shop made my downpipe/spipe vband and it connects to a full vband ptuning exhaust.. love the vbands!

 

yes vbands are great!

 

vbands are also 4x the cost of regular flanges

 

yup cost more thats the downside, but if you modify and wrench on your car frequently it will be a benefit for you.. You dont have to be buying new gaskets every time you disconnect your exhaust, plus its quicker to disconnect. It also allows you to rotate a the pipe if needed

 

YES rotating the pipe.... that saved me cuz after we made the exhaust i actually had to move the spipe like half an inch cuz it was rattling on a line !

 

very true

but usually ppl arent changing their exhausts every week

but like everything else.. comes down to $$$

 

customer did not want stainless steel... thought it was pointless spending that much on something you never see under the car.

 

V-Band's are definately awesome!!! Like most of you said, if you plan on dis-connecting your exhaust frequently, thats the way to go!

The customer basically just wanted a true 3" mandrel exhaust, didn't want to put out too much money (tried to talk him into stainless), so i feel we accomplished what he was looking for.

We also did high temp ceramic coat the entire piping for him.

Thanks for all the replies!

 

wheres it mandrel bent? i see alot of sharp pie's