Sounds good. I'm a bit sick of my FM 2.5", it's too deep and hurts my head. How hard was it to weld for your first time? Is a DIY exhaust like this n00b friendly with no welding experience?

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Good job. :bigtu:
Which one of you owns the chop saw? And could I arrange to borrow it when I get to my install, for making some mad tyte IC pypez?

Scott, where'd you end up buying the 5x2809234x29838724983270982q Magnaflow from? I need to build a Laguna exhaust and I don't feel like taking chances (needs to be 90db at WOT).

performancepeddler.com

looks like no matter where you buy a magnaflow from everyone, incluing pp.com, is charging the same amount. But they can drop ship from magnaflow (CA) if it's not in stock (IL).

I also like what ARtech did with the 5x8x18 muffler on in his thread, but I knew this thing would trump all as far as dB levels and still sound great. It's weird to start the car with fast idle and not wake neighbors.

nice. perhaps a before/after datalog of spool for comparison?

it's a straight pipe with holes shoved in a box. it's not going to hurt performance compared to the 5x8x18 I gur-un-tee.

ScottFW: I own the chop saw. They're so cheap at harborfreight you should buy one. you'll use it for everything. except aluminum.

I've used mine on Al, just clamp it down and use the saw with one hand and wd40 in the other. Works great.

i figured as much. i just had nothing else floating around in my head to spam the thread with. ;-)

The previous was 4x9x14, not 5x8x18. 5x8x18 would sound good.

Why not? Work slow and just don't do a lot at one time. We cut everything under the sun with the chop saw... Rubber, plastic, aluminum, steel, and even cloth rope from time to time.

Get decent welding flat pieces of metal together before you try doing round.

agreed. I cut aluminum all the time on wood bladed tools ... cuts like butta. Though it seems like the marine biased alloys (5086?) containing a higher magnesium content can be a bitch - I sheared a bunch of teeth off the band saw at work after cutting 5052 for a couple hours without issue.

-Zach

Okay stupid question, or maybe I just can't read, which exact model is this muffler? I really like the sound. Please go easy, I just got done with 3 15 hour days in a row at the hospital.
The sound is perfect!!!

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I bought an "aluminum" abrasive chop saw blade from mcmaster a while back, works great. looks just like a standard blade for steels but works on aluminum.

I was at my dad's shop a few weeks ago and noticed a big chunk missing from it. Fantastic.

Also, I found the Hitachi chopsaw from Lowes to be far better than the harborfreight unit while costing similar (get a 10% off coupon from a post office/new home owner packet).

aluminum tends to clog up steel blades. maybe not so much on the chop saw though?

Curious, why not just put a lesonator on it instead of changing the whole thing out?

I'm just down here in NC, I will bring keg and piping and 18yr olds for exchange on labor for 3" straight pipe exhaust. :)

We're not lesbians, not lesonators here.