Re: [AMC-List] Tust the Midas Touch - if you're a Masochist -

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen good and bad ones.
 I think they buy mufflers and prebent stuff from the parent company and everything else they can do with product of their choosing. So if you get a set of pipes bent up you have a better chance of getting good stock depending on what the local place buys. Believe me there is a big difference in the quality of pipe available out there.
 There is also the possibility that they are supposed to buy all their stock from the parent company, but it is easy to buy straight stock anywhere and some local shops buy some of thiers outside the parent Co's eyesight!.
  One shop I knew of years back would even bend up your pipes for a beer and $20 or so! I also know a friend of mine put straight pipes to turbo mufflers on his ford product and took it in to get tailpipes. They took one look at how low his mufflers and pipes hung and said, " No way can we leave that go out of here looking like that"! So, They dropped the whole exhaust, bent his pipes up front to tuck them in, made new hangers and ran tailpipes to the rear pan. All for the same exact price they quoted him over the phone for just putting the tailpipes on! What blew my mind was not a single person in that shop knew my friend before hand! 
   They did know the word of mouth traffic to come out of doing such things though! I bet they put on 10-20 systems for other guys we knew just because he told everyone how good they treated him. No, The shop did not ever mistreat or rip off anyone in all those people I ever knew of. 
   Shame there aren't more shops like that around. I know a few guys that live and die doing that kind of work to this day. But, it's a very few.................
    
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Just like any other chain, there are good ones and bad ones. The one by 
> me does really good work and there are a couple of guys there really 
> into cars (one has a 5.0 Mustang he races, another has a 70 Superbird). 
> It's usually one of those guys working on the old stuff (like my cars).
> 
> Matt
> 
> Brien Tourville wrote:
> > If you do use Midas, don't allow them to
> > weld anything together - they use cheap
> > off-shore high acid content metal - the
> > welds will rot within two years.
> > 
> > Bring any NOS style hangers with you
> > unless you like sheet metal screws being
> > railed thru your floors.
> > 
> > I had them install on my 1989 Honda 
> > Civic Si.  Two years later the entire
> > system was junk.
> > 
> > They wouldn't honor the Lifetime 
> > coverage on the muffler unless they
> > installed another exhaust system -
> > again - at the same price as the 
> > initial install.
> > 
> > Getting 'Midasized' brought a whole
> > new meaning to the experience.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         =Bt=
> >   milnersXcoupe
> >    "The Heretic"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [AMC-List] exhaust pipes
> > 
> > 
> > If you have head pipes, can't you just stick cheap mufflers on it and
> > drive over? Also, they should be able to bend the pipes up for you if 
> > 
> > the
> > truck is pretty much stock. The Midas by me had no problem bending up 
> > a
> > pipe for my 68 American.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > Wayne E LaMothe wrote:
> >> Since the only place that makes exhaust pipes is over 30 miles away and
> >> the J10 has no pipes on it, I can't get the truck to them.  Is there any
> >> place that sells old cars exhaust parts?  NAPA does not list either the
> >> tailpipe or the intermediate pipe.  I might have to bring my pieces in
> >> to see what they can bend up to match.
> >>
> >> Any leads?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Wayne
> >> 66 Ambo 990 wagon, 327, auto, PS, PDB, PW, 69 Ambo 2 dr, 401 M12
> >> 83 Eagle Limited, 82 Eagle SX/4
> >> 88 J10, a real truck
> >> 2001 XJ, 2000 Cirrus (both hers)
> >   
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