Spooln4

Perfection is awesome go see Shannon he will take care of you! Call ahead and make an appointment.

The Nisbro

yeah, go see Shannon..he's done all of my exhausts

TNGChris

Pretty much anywhere you go around here is going to be aluminized mild steel piping,crush bent and MIG welded together.You can supply your own stainless mandrel bends,but it'll still be MIG'd and not very pretty,or relatively corrosion resistant.Not sure if Joey has TIG capabilities or not,but he'd be the only shop I can think of that may be able to do it.I have all the equipment,but not enough time to do it right now(and it's probably not worth it anyway,see below).

Get the mufflers you want,and just take it to Perfection.The crush bent piping isn't a huge deal unless you're building a very high power setup,and it'll still last many years-probably longer than you own the car.Nobody can see underneath the car anyway,so it's not a big deal if it's not the best looking thing in the world.
By the time you buy quality stainless bends and piping,flanges,hangers,etc and pay the going rate for fabrication and TIG welding,you'll have as much or even more into it than you can buy a nice aftermarket cat-back for(you could easily have $800 or more total in it).I've quoted a few people on building exhausts recently,but even at a rate way lower than what a regular welding shop would charge for TIG(that would do no fitting or fabricating,just welding existing pieces),I can't compete with the made in China name brand exhausts that are now out there.Several years ago when somebody wanted something (at the time) unique,like a full 3"+ turbo back or something of that nature,I could do it for a reasonable price considering how much items like that cost at the time,as well as the steel being so much cheaper than it is now.

If you take your own mufflers to Perfection,you should be able to get it all done a couple hundred bucks or so.Just do that,haha.

BSeriesTurbo

Hey Martin, sell me your TIG. plskthxbye

TongWoo

Hey Carlo, I'll run straight pipe from your cat back. I'll make sure I'll muffle you too... Don't have stainless, as my pipe always leaves stains. Is that cool?

TNGChris

For as little as I use it anymore,I should sell it.
A lot of the guys on the welding forums are building TIG setups based off the cheapo knockoff China made machines,and they actually work really well and they have very little money into them.Wish that info would have been known when I bought my machine.

Good deal!

Spooln4

What cheap tig machines are you referring to? Any links to read?

TNGChris

The welding forum on Honda-Tech is actually pretty good:http://honda-tech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=53

I haven't been on there in while and I can't remember any name brands right off the top of my head,but basically they're China made machines that are then rebadged and sold by numerous well known "manufacturers".People were finding places selling these machines straight from the companies actually producing them.There were also people converting cheap arc machines(like Harbor Freight) to full TIG capabilities.
Googling "budget tig" will bring up plenty of good info.One thing I did notice just now doing some quick searching was that it looks like the prices overall have gone up quite a bit.When I paid $1,800 for my Lincoln,guys were pieceing together China setups for $500.It looks like now $1,000 or so is on the low end,and some of the well known brands are well over $2,000 for their entry level 220V machines.

What are you wanting to do with it?Just steel,or do you need AC for aluminum?If you're okay with DC only and possibly even okay with a scratch-start machine,you can still get into something pretty cheap.

DURHUR

Anyone have or know of any 94-97 integra bumper covers?Color doesn't matter,and neither does condition as long as its not cracked/broken.Thanks

pieisgude

Only reason i wanted stainless is because i thought you couldn't weld stainless to non-stainless. I'm probably wrong about that...

But this is what i'm going for:





And something along the lines of this for the muffler/tip:





I already have the tips, i just need some mufflers. But i'm having a very hard time finding some that would work. Plan is 3" to the Y, then 2.5" all the way back to the muffler, and some big ole 5" tips!

Oh, and where is this perfection place you guys speak of?

And here's a pic of the stock exhaust just for comparison's sake: