tap tap tapping? Wrap wrap wrapping?

 

I've owned pypes products before too. I had ordered a dual exhaust conversion kit for my '00 V6. Supposed to a "Bolt-on" direct fit right? XXXXXX..... Had to cut about two inches off the X Pype, bend a couple of hangers and then still had to take it to a shop for proper alignment since it was not cooperating.

I never contacted them for customer service so I don't have an opinion on it but you get what you pay for. The kit wasn't expensive but it was a PITA and what I saved in costs I made up for in time. The shop was kind enough to align the exhaust for me at no charge stating "come to us when you have some real work to be done"

 

Got a response from American Muscle. Pretty much what I was expecting.

Jeff,


Thank you very much for taking the time to email in and having this brought to our attention. I’m extremely sorry to hear that you’re having these issues with Pypes and we would love to help out but this is something that would need to go directly through Pypes. Have you tried contacting them any other way? Via fax or email? Typically we wouldn’t have the ability to intervene because they were purchased from a friend and are likely outside of our warranty period. Please let me know how else we can help out!




Alex

 

Jeff...Never hurts to try...Sorry...

 

Well, suckage. AM is all over customer service, but everything has to go through the same people at Pypes so your SOL. Sorry.

 

I might try going up higher in the food chain of Pypes but I don't know.

I have a customer that has a mig welder with Stainless wire. I just don't know how to get the bends into the tubing. I wonder how hard that tubing is to bend.

I also found an online place that will do it if I ship them the header. I don't know if the picture I posted would be sufficient for them to use as a template.

 

Probably a high end exhaust shop has that capability, or as said before motorcycle fab shop, mostly because they make the tube frames and some of them do the exhaust work.

Tubing is pretty hard to bend without crushing it. If you were going to have someone make it without your car present it might be best to jack it back up and cut those offending pipes off, bolt the header in place, take a few pictures/measurements. Also getting some compatible sized pvc pipe and bending it with a heat gun into the correct shape would be a good way of mocking it up for a shop to have a template.