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Old 02-22-2015, 01:14 PM   #207 (permalink)
brancky3
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Originally Posted by Gregor12 View Post
Mandrel bent is horrible for performance lol. It basically squeezes the pioe to bender giving it a smaller diameter. Building a custom exhaust like this one is going to cost you more. It it's not a easy setup on the Z. Cheaping out never ends well. I've made hat mistake already on my Subaru. Lost power over the stock exhaust with a mandrel bent straits pipe lol
Wat. Mandrel bent means that the pipe is the same diameter even in bends, what you're thinking of is crush bent where the bends are a smaller diameter. I would not call a custom exhaust 'cheaping out' nor would I call the Z's exhaust complicated - there's like 2 bends.
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