Right, Picking my car up tomorrow with its new exhaust.

Its a full stainless sytem 3-2-1(x2) for the m3 straight 6. has to wrap around the steering shaft 3 over 3 under.
Pipe work has to wrap around here where its tighter than i'd care to mention!
Its built using tuned lengths equal length primaries etc
including silencer and 6 individual manifold flanges.

Basically its a proper job to similar specs as a full race system on e36 m3 race cars.

So the question is how much would you say? I know its taken over a week in man hours to get it all right





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I love the look of a six in a seven

Lincoln ? If its 1/2 as good as the one they made me you will be well happy.

I'm assuming cant remember name of place, its that place at end of a long twisty road to nowhere lane place ?

Yep thats the one. Had one off them before that was great but this is another league of work to get right!

Did young girlie weld it ?

She can tig for England, I promised her a ride but not given her one yet........

Read into that what you will.

Sod guessing the price, just get some pics up when you pick it up

The exhaust or the tig welder ?

She's done some of it, the big boss the rest! A system made of normal pig steel then the final one in stainless.

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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
Sod guessing the price, just get some pics up when you pick it up

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you have a U2U franky, sorry but sod all to with you exhaust

I've replied

The people who say less than £500 could you explain why?

Tight arses

Well I guessed you'd give £300 for the manifold and £200 for the side bit and silencer.

There's not a lot of pipe involved, and I reckon you'd get a 4 branch plus full system on a tin top for about £800 and that's a lot harder to make really, no access at all, and subframes etc all in the way, then the actual system is much more complex bends wise, and it has to exit in the right place.

Custom zorsts on 7s are a bit more fluid in this aspect, and there's a lot of room to work on it, i.e. all the side of the car is missing.

I'm probably wrong though, but am hoping 2 other people will be along soon to back me up.............................

Must be about £1k for that.

Stu

I can't wait to see it, and find out how much it cost.

I'll be looking for an exhaust early next year for my 328i powered 7

I know what your saying however the shape of the bends, keeping them all the same length, there's less space where it comes out the side of the car than on the road car and it needs to go from 6 in 1 in not a lot of distance.

Also look at what people charge for a crappy 4-1 with no design thought at all for a zetec etc.

Also 6 flanges not 1 long one.

guess we'll know for sure when I pick it up

House re-mortgage time

Deffo wanna see some pics

I estimated arround £1000

A silencer about 100-150
6 individual flanges, lasercut about £25-30 quid
3 collectors about £100-150

If you include that you might need about 2-3 bends per cylinder that would be another £300-400

about 2m of straight SS pipe about £30

So far min 555 max 760.

Now if you include all the labour as well you will notice that you will reach about £1000

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u2u sent

will be around the £1000 i would have expected

mainly down to the man or woman hours alone thats involved
eagerly awaiting the finished pics

As above, Pics tomorrow

I'd have said about 1100...

Having just had a system made for my RX7 fitted with an LS1 V8 I would have to say around £1000. Mine had more fabrication but wasn't made by a commercial company and came to almost exactly £1000.

That was 2 x 4 branch manifolds and a Y mid-section with two silencers. If you included the titanium rear section that would have bumped it up to £1800!

There are pics but it would be rude to post them here.

I'm slightly worried that you don't seem to know how much it will cost until you collect it.

What did you say to them - hears a blank cheque, make me an exhaust?

I've got an idea However I'd like to see the going rate really so I know if its a (relative) bargin! Not an open cheque book job, one day it'd be nice to be able to afford to say something like that!

I don't see how people can say less than £500 as it'd cost more than that in materials.... however this is locost builders!

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I went for £1200+.

Ned's cost £700+ and that was just for an XE!

Cheers,
James

I don't think it would cost anything like £500 for some lengths of stainless tube, a bit of sheet to roll into a can, a tailpipe and some perforated tube, so materials cost wouldn't be that high, but, the cost comes when someone bends a bit of pipe into a "primary" and then adds 300% to the cost of the actual pipe.

Depends who's doing it really, keep us posted!

We had one done by these guys: LINKwho apparently made the mclaren f1 exhausts.

That was in 96 and it cost £900 for a turbo back system on a saph cos, but, there was a £650 power cat in there. Cats were dear back in the day, the system was cheap enough really.

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I don't think it would cost anything like £500 for some lengths of stainless tube, a bit of sheet to roll into a can, a tailpipe and some perforated tube, so materials cost wouldn't be that high, but, the cost comes when someone bends a bit of pipe into a "primary" and then adds 300% to the cost of the actual pipe.

Depends who's doing it really, keep us posted!

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I don't think it would cost anything like £500 for some lengths of stainless tube, a bit of sheet to roll into a can, a tailpipe and some perforated tube, so materials cost wouldn't be that high, but, the cost comes when someone bends a bit of pipe into a "primary" and then adds 300% to the cost of the actual pipe.

Depends who's doing it really, keep us posted!

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It depends whether they;re doing that or actually designing you an exhaust system to suit your setup....

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... I remember the days when I used to think that you could get something like this made for under £500! Oh how my eyes have been opened!



If you're paying VAT, then I reckon it'll be over the £1k mark (hopefully not by much).

Cost a little under £600 (not including silencer), made by Exhausts By Design.

I can't compare it to any other system performance wise, but the car made 121bhp at the wheels on the rollers at Big CC with nothing but the exhaust, pipercross sausage filter and dynojet kit, so it certainly can't be doing any harm

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That was in 96 and it cost £900 for a turbo back system on a saph cos, but, there was a £650 power cat in there. Cats were dear back in the day, the system was cheap enough really.

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I don't think it would cost anything like £500 for some lengths of stainless tube, a bit of sheet to roll into a can, a tailpipe and some perforated tube, so materials cost wouldn't be that high, but, the cost comes when someone bends a bit of pipe into a "primary" and then adds 300% to the cost of the actual pipe.

Depends who's doing it really, keep us posted!

We had one done by these guys: LINKwho apparently made the mclaren f1 exhausts.

That was in 96 and it cost £900 for a turbo back system on a saph cos, but, there was a £650 power cat in there. Cats were dear back in the day, the system was cheap enough really.

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Mines a straightforward 4-1, cost £400 few months ago.

Pics, not quite finished but i'm sure you get the idea....











Thoughts?

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Ooooooooooooooooooo, I think i may have just embarassed myself

That is a stunning bit of work!!

Can you send me their contact details?

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Pics, not quite finished but i'm sure you get the idea....

Thoughts?

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i said under 500 because i paid just over 300 for a bec 4-1.

looks wise i am really not liking the way that one primary runs
just looks wrong to me although sure its great for flow just astheticly it lets a otherwise stunning system down

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Pics, not quite finished but i'm sure you get the idea....

Thoughts?

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Good luck fitting the side panel

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Is that hot or cold drawn? If hot drawn I suspect primaries cost circa £900 and the silencer £250 so I stick with my guess of £1200.

If cold Drawn then £1000 ish

Let us know.......... Neil

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over 50% of voters would pay the cost Chuffed isn't the word. I had quotes of £1500+ for the same thing! Can't see how it could be done better with the space and spec

I never said i'd pay the cost - just what i thought it would cost.

Slightly nervous that your exhaust can is a little small.

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I never said i'd pay the cost - just what i thought it would cost.

Slightly nervous that your exhaust can is a little small.

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Welllll??????????????????//

How much????

Over 50% of voters said £800 or less, so was it?

As for the cold v hot drawn thing, I don't get it. The tubing was bought in then bent up in a bender, nothing more.

Are you talking about the raw material manufacturing before it was bought in or how they made the system?

can i guess the price??

looks really good mate
cant wait to see it in the flesh

Holy cow that looks nice!!!

Mine is just the standard 6 - 2 manifold with some scrap bits of pipe i had in the garage sticking out the side and going into one of my tintops silencers! No where near as cool looking as that.



Keep up the good work!

yours is a very tidy solution, how have you done the pipe work inside? any pics? It does look cool though, are you going to paint it?

Hi

Nice manifold work. But it has been let down by the fact that the collectors will be robing you of serious power.

Cheers Matt

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Originally posted by procomp
Hi

Nice manifold work. But it has been let down by the fact that the collectors will be robing you of serious power.

Cheers Matt

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Originally posted by procomp
Hi

Nice manifold work. But it has been let down by the fact that the collectors will be robing you of serious power.

Cheers Matt

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