Sacramento Muffler Delete

Anyone in or around Sacramento willing to meet up so I can hear your muffler delete?

Recommendations on quality shops who will do it ~$150 tops?

Thanks


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you’re not leaving any room for quality at that budget

Gti jake said:

you’re not leaving any room for quality at that budget

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Oh god I’m sorry. I meant to post that here...

http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16

Silly me- always mixing up my sides of the country.

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Giving your comment a fighting chance at redemption though-

What have you paid to have this done?
What have you seen others pay?
What constitutes quality, in your opinion, for a handful of cuts and welds?

I’ll happily provide some more topics for constructive contribution if none of those seem approachable.


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That’s stupid. You should easily be able to get it done under that budget. Mine was $60 on my mk5, and the 7 has essentially the same design.

I think I paid like $300 for mine. I’m in LA and will sell it to you for $100.

It has 4” tips and is PERFECT. Also it’s a mandrel bend

iPanir said:

I think I paid like $300 for mine. I’m in LA and will sell it to you for $100.

It has 4” tips and is PERFECT. Also it’s a mandrel bend

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That’s a custome exhaust tho, not a muffler delete, correct?

c72k said:

That’s a custome exhaust tho, not a muffler delete, correct?

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It’s basically a muffler delete.

There is one muffler for both exhaust tips

iPanir said:

It’s basically a muffler delete.

There is one muffler for both exhaust tips

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How was it that expensive? I had a shop cut out the mid muffler and weld in a new section of pipe for $60

SM075180 said:

Oh god I’m sorry. I meant to post that here...

http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16

Silly me- always mixing up my sides of the country.

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Giving your comment a fighting chance at redemption though-

What have you paid to have this done?
What have you seen others pay?
What constitutes quality, in your opinion, for a handful of cuts and welds?

I’ll happily provide some more topics for constructive contribution if none of those seem approachable.


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Ok cuz California labor rates are so much cheaper than the southeast...totally unrealistic for me to make a estimate on what they’d charge over there in liberal world.



If you want a mild steel with crush bends I’m sure someone can do it for $150.

As for what I’ve paid, well I’m the guy who gets paid to build exhaust so I can tell you what I charge. $40 an hour plus materials, which I use mandrel bent 304L stainless steel, 308 wire & trimix shielding gas. Currently have a mk7 R in for a catback build, it’s $460 worth of materials (its single side, dual tip) not including any consumables.



My axle backs or muffler deletes run $450 for dual tip. Just materials alone cost more than you’re wanting to pay.


Nothing wrong with wanting to do it cheap, it’s your car and your money. But I wouldn’t call anything that can be built for $150 “quality” as mild steel will rust even other cali and not everyone is ok with that. I also build everything to be bolt on and fully reversible so if they wanna go back to stock and sell the piece they have that option. Cost a little more that way but it also protects your investment

For reference a local shop to me Eurowise charges about x3 my rate and uses the same materials

c72k said:

How was it that expensive? I had a shop cut out the mid muffler and weld in a new section of pipe for $60

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They basically made me a custom catback.

I'll upload pics when I get a chance but its done really nicely. It's also a mandrel and not a crush bend.

Well a mid muffler is literally one straight piece of pipe, that’s a little different lol

iPanir said:

They basically made me a custom catback.

I'll upload pics when I get a chance but its done really nicely. It's also a mandrel and not a crush bend.

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Gti jake said:

Well a mid muffler is literally one straight piece of pipe, that’s a little different lol

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That’s what I’m saying. Isn’t op asking for the muffler delete? Not an entire catback?

c72k said:

That’s what I’m saying. Isn’t op asking for the muffler delete? Not an entire catback?

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Just lookin’ at chopping off the suitcase guys.

I either want to experiment cheap- to decide if I like it before taking bigger leaps.

Or

To find someone local who will let me listen to their setup in person before I spend more up front.

Start cheap and you’ll find a deal- start where everyone else did and you’ll get ripped off- just like everyone else. Lol


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SM075180 said:

Just lookin’ at chopping off the suitcase guys.

I either want to experiment cheap- to decide if I like it before taking bigger leaps.

Or

To find someone local who will let me listen to their setup in person before I spend more up front.

Start cheap and you’ll find a deal- start where everyone else did and you’ll get ripped off- just like everyone else. Lol


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Yeah. So exactly what i thought. That might be slightly more involved because of the piping that they’d need to weld etc. should be able to still have it done under $150. That being said, I think you might have some drone on freeways

c72k said:

Yeah. So exactly what i thought. That might be slightly more involved because of the piping that they’d need to weld etc. should be able to still have it done under $150. That being said, I think you might have some drone on freeways

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No the mid-mufler you’ve been referring to is the resonator. The “suitcase” with the tips on it is the muffler. I was also quoted more than $150 for the actual muffler the OP is talking about to be deleted.

I also wouldn’t recommend it. Drone is horrible. Better off buying a good cat-back.