Fabrication

We can accomodate your typical light weight small cars up to big heavy trucks. We have Magnaflow, Dynomax, Flowmaster and many other import and domestic brand name mufflers to choose from. We have access to many diameters of piping available from the smallish 1.5" straight piping and up to 5" straight pipings, we also have access to all type and kinds of mandrel bends piping. 1.5" mandrel bends up to 5" mandrel bends. All pipings and mandrel bends except for a select few are available in aluminized mild steel and stainless steel options.

We can also fabricate mandrel bend intake pipes for your car. Custom intake piping to suit whatever intake system that you have in mind. We also offer upper and lower intercooler pipes design and finish welding. We even have the tool to put those hose beads at the end of the intake pipe so your hose and clamps wont blow off. Got a particular intercooler core in mind? Bring it over and we can get that end tank designed, cut and welded for your application. Whatever you need, we can do it.

Got a wild idea creeping up your spine? So you want to install 4 mufflers on your exhaust systems? Want to have 8 exhaust tips exiting the back of the bumper? No problem. Sometimes you just want to be different you know, we can take care of that! Got a custom grill or a custom steel table that you want to build? Maybe a decorative steel end table with custom auto or bike parts welded to it? It'll be a really interesting conversation piece! Just let us know, we'll be there to build it for you!

click to enlarge     General Fabrication We offer TIG welding of aluminum, stainless steel, and mild/aluminized steel; plasma cutting, and water jet cutting. We will make whatever part you need, if you can think it up in your head we’ll find a way to make it fit. For the most part we make exhaust systems, intercooler piping, intercooler end tanks, and intake manifolds. Although we can make anything you want; for example, battery trays, catch cans, control arms, sway bar mounts, camera mounts, or seat bases. Our goals with any fabrication project are to use the straightest piping possible, maintain ease of service, and keep everything aesthetically pleasing. Quality is also a high priority; we do not let anything leave the shop that would not put on our own cars. As for pricing our shop rate is $75 per hour. How much will a one of a kind air to water IC setup cost? That’s a good question; we need to look at the car to give you a real quote. Without looking over the car with you in person we cannot give you an accurate price. It also gives a good chance to go over every option with you to make the parts fit the way *you* want. We do not make half ass parts, don’t waste our time calling asking for a quote and compare the price of a custom one of a kind stainless part to some mig welded, mild steel, POS that some kid makes in his garage and sells on ebay. We design each part to fit YOUR car, if you don’t mind taking off your o2 housing to change your oil filter, or completely unnecessary 90 degree bends then you can buy the junk that other shops sell. See the Sidebar Pictures for Examples of our Fabrication Work. Back to the Top ^   Exhaust Systems   Piping: We offer mild steel and 304 stainless. Mild steel is cheap and it works, it also rusts. You can paint the exterior to help, but it will rot out from the inside in a few years. We prefer to use 304 stainless; it will last longer than you car, and continues to look good a decade later. Mild steel is always an option if that’s really what you want. All our systems are mandrel bent, if you want a press bent exhaust talk to a muffler shop. We also offer a variety of reducers and y sections Link to catalog     Flanges: For our 3” pipe, o2 housing flanges, and Mitsubishi turbine housing flanges we have ½” thick stainless. Our 3” flanges are three bolt only, the two bolt flanges have a tendency to warp over time and start leaking. That is also the reason why we use such thick flanges. For 2.5” exhaust systems we use 3/8” two bolt flanges. We also offer 304 stainless v-band flanges and clamps (also full stainless) in 1.5”, 2”, 2.5”, 3”, and 4” sizes. They are the fastest disconnecting clamps available, just remove one nut and you are done. Perfect for downpipes and test pipes. The flanges seal so tightly that no gasket is required. The best thing about these flanges is that they are actually cheaper than our standard three bolt flange when you add in the cost of the gasket and hardware. At only $40 a set these are much cheaper than anything else on the market.     Mufflers: We offer the full line from magnaflow, flowmaster, allied, carsound cats, and dynomax. We normally use magnaflow mufflers as they are the highest flowing and best looking mufflers at a good price. For those concerned about weight we use Burn’s stainless mufflers, between 2.5 and 3.5lbs and only $200. We also have a 3” inlet dual 2.5” muffler for those of you that want to be stealthy, or just don’t like a 4” tip. For some examples check the DIY section of our catalog. Link to catalog Back to the Top ^     Steve, Evo VIII The Evo is a great car from the factory, but like any production car it has room for improvement. This is pretty evident when you look at the stock exhaust, there are a lot of bends that simply do not need to be there. Our Evo exhaust is 3” stainless from the o2 housing back. We drop the front subframe brace slightly to get clearance for the 3” pipe, while eliminating three bends. From there it has a carsound high flow cat with 3 bolt flanges, a test pipe for track use is also available. Then it runs back to a straight through magnaflow muffler with an angle cut 4” tip that looks almost identical to the stock exhaust tip. This is the exhaust we made a jig of for our production units **link to EVO exhaust in catalog** Link to 2003 Mitsu EVO8     Andre, 91 Galant VR4 Andre has a full 3” from the turbine housing back ending in a dual square tip magnaflow muffler. The two square tips fit the rectangular opening in the jdm bumper perfectly. The o2 housing still allows clearance for removal of the oil filter, a common problem with o2 eliminator type downpipes. It is flanged at the oil pan for easier service of the transfer case.     Will, 92 Laser AWD Will’s car also features a one of a kind 3” o2 housing and exhaust. It has an external dump tube for the wastegate, uses two round tips to keep a stock appearance, a vband flanged test pipe/cat, and a separate “muffler delete” pipe for when he wants to go deaf. Link to Will's Exhaust and O2 Fabrication Link to the Exhaust and O2 Installed     96 Eclipse GSX Unlike the other systems this was made with no stealth at all. The least amount of bends possible and a N1 style muffler mounting. It has a total of two bends, yes only 2 bends. One bend at the downpipe, and one slight bend at the rear diff. 3” from the o2 housing back, full stainless, and a magnaflow muffler. We also made a new dump tube for the tial 35mm. It comes out the front bumper. Back to the Top ^     Intercoolers and Piping We offer the best custom intercooler piping you’re going to see anywhere. Put the powder coater away, set down the buffing wheel and polish compound. Our 304 stainless comes to you already polished to a great sheen. The 304 we use is much higher quality than what you can get from a standard muffler shop. It butt welds perfectly, no filler required. This means you get a very narrow weld bead, with good penetration that looks awesome. As for intercoolers we normally use garrett or spearco cores, they are a bar and plate design, durable, and have a good fin count. We have also used spearco, xs engineering, and Apexi cores. If you have a 1G DSM, 2G DSM, or EVO VIII please check our catalog as we sell kinetic motorsport intercooler kits for these cars much cheaper than you can have a custom setup made. We have used a variety of blow off valves and prefer the HKS super sequential over the others we have used. It is a pull type valve so the higher boost you run the tighter the valve seals. Due to this they do not need to run an overly stiff spring, giving it better operation at low boost/part throttle. On the Evo VIII we recommend the greddy type S though, as the HKS has a surge problem on that particular car.     Steve, Evo VIII While the EVO comes with a front mount intercooler from the factory, it is still a factory piece, and production design restraints mean it is not optimized for performance. Aside from the fact that the core itself is not very large, it’s tubes are very small. That means greater pressure drop across the core and a bigger airflow restriction. The piping is downright sad, with a dinky 2” pipe for much of the lower pipe. The upper pipe has more bends in it than an autoX course, a total joke. We use a kinetic intercooler core, one of the biggest true bolt on cores available for the Evo, it comes in at 24x12x3.5”. That’s over 1000 inches of core volume. It really bolts on, no cutting of the car required. The lower IC pipe is also from kinetic and is 2.5” 304 stainless. We then made a small battery tray and used an odyssey dry cell battery to get more room for the upper IC pipe. The new upper pipe follows a much more direct route to the throttle body than the OEM junk. Link to More Pictures of Steve's Evo VIII Link to Fabrication Process of Steve's IC     Mark, 91 Galant VR4 Mark has one of the cleanest Galants out there, now that he has our intercooler. Mark wanted to get rid of his small fmic piping and use a shorter routing layout. Since his old intercooler would need new endtanks for the new piping, he sold the whole old setup. He picked up a 2-216 spearco core, 28x12x3”. This is a very long core for a gallant and it made getting the pipes to the endtanks a little bit difficult. After playing with the core location for a while we found a way to make it all fit with the stock AC fan, jdm bumper, and jdm foglights. It’s one of the only gallants you’ll see out there with this core behind a jdm bumper. The piping is also much shorter and direct than his old setup. Link to the Build of Mark's FMIC A quote from Mark on the GVR4 board: “I don't trust my car to anybody, so me leaving my car at his shop for two weeks without worry is really saying something. Other than a few ideas I threw out to him on how I wanted it to look as far as piping and core mounting Andre did all the work and I couldn't be happier. Whoopha” Back to the Top ^