Why are Cobalt exhausts so much money? It's rediculous. My local exhaust shop would do a 3" catback with a dynomax muff for about $250. 3" bent on a regular bender is like 2.75" mandrel bent which is good for well over 300hp. Absolutely rediculous. My Borla dual exhaust with two mufflers for my s2000 was $600. These guys need to put the crack pipe down.

 

no ****. but it would cost me 600 bucks for a custom 3 inch stainless at shops around here. your 250 can't be stainless. it's too cheap

 

$250 is for aluminized. I dont eat off my exhaust under the car so I dont care. The only part you see is the tip. If it rusts out in 5 years it would still be worth it. If I wanted mandrel bent, SS, and TIG welded I could get it for around $400.

 

well mine cost me well over $700

 

but you bought the corsa 2.5 touring.

 

R and D

If you have one built, they build it without testing, it performs how it performs...could be awesome, or you could even lose power. Most of the aftermarket exhausts have a ton of R&D time put into them to ensure they get the gains that customers expect.

 

Which makes plenty of sense on an NA car. The exhaust on a 250whp NA Honda must have tons of R&D time to perfect the exhaust pulse. On a FI car you could buy a $5 turn down and stick it on the end of the cat and be as good as it gets. The only deciding factor between exhausts that I can see is how the system sounds.

 

other cars' exhausts cost just as much. i paid close to $1300 for the GReddy Evo2 on my Z, so i am glad to have a car where the exhausts are cheaper than that for a top of the line product. There are also Z exhausts out there from a couple companies that run close to $3000.

is the glass half empty or half full?

i think we have it pretty good as far as exhaust prices considering the companies that make those products, i.e. Corsa and Borla...

 

i guess.. but the vibrant kit..1400. holy ****

 

you at least get header back. but thats 750 for the header/ downpipe and 650 for the catback

 

Ooooh, a Dynomax muffler and midas bent 3" pipe, bet that's going to sound good

Seriously, if you are on a tight budget you can get the Magnaflow setup for less than $500. Went with the Corsa myself. Sounds good, performs great, and will last forever. I live in the midwest where it snows and they use road salt. I could easily go through 3-4 non-stainless systems over the time I own the car so I think the Corsa will pay for itself.

 

if you do that on a Z, the DC Sports headers are about $675, cats are about $600, and then add a $1000 cat back.

we aren't civics, so its not like theres a mass production of exhausts for our cars, its supply vs. demand that also could have something to do with the prices, but i still feel we have it pretty good.

its all a moot point for me because i plan to design my own but whatever, i'm just trying to help

 

Actually a Dynomax or Magnaflow muffler on a shop bent exhaust sounds great if you get the right muffler and resonator/s. Too many of the premade SS systems sound ricey to me. My Miata has duals with Magnaflow muffs and it sounds awesome. People frequently ask if I have a v8 swap.

I live in the midwest too and have never rusted out a good aluminized shop bent exhaust. All of my Hondas stock exhausts have rusted out though.

I think I'm going to go with a shop bent setup using a magnaflow SS muffler and resonator from Jegs.

 

at the shop i went to , for 2.25 inches full catback except for the muffler( cuz i already had a muffler), including a longer resonator also 2.25, 90 bucks.

and it was also mandrel bent

 

What muffler?

 

flowmaster 2.25 40 series( that alone was 110 with installation)

 

Holy crap. Thats a loud muffler. How does it sound?
Those flowmaster Delta Series are great mufflers.

 

its loud but not like..glass pack loud, and this was on my base (which is totalled). the catback actually made it a little quieter cuz i put a longer resonator, and it took out all the droning, it wasnt all that loud and could definately feel the gains and it sounded really deep and powerful at high rpms

 

180 for stainless custom and 80 of that was just the tip