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Some of you may know this, but I have a second car being stored at my brothers house in Kentucky. It's a 1988 Suzuki Samurai. Now I have an issue where the exhaust system has rotted off. See pics below:

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Now, do I just get a stock, off the shelf exhaust at meineke? Or do I go with enlarged header and whole new performance exhaust that says there's a 15% increase in power for $700?

My nephew needs to use it for a little while and obviously, it needs a muffler.

Thoughts?

Stock, off the shelf. Unless you plan on using that thing to crawl around in mud up to its doors (which, by the condition of the undercarriage someone already has been) and have the power to back it up,  aftermarket is wholly unnecessary. I'm assuming its completely stock? BTW, most, if not all, aftermarket parts claim 15% increase when the reality is, you get about 5% if you're lucky.

Besides, why burn $700 on a beat down Samurai when you have a sweet AV6 sedan that needs its suspension replaced with a set of Teins that haven't been rebuilt yet?

I was gonna say make it loud... but I like Zs arguement.

That exhaust looks absolutely terrible! If it were me, I would go with the cheapest option unless I planned on keeping it for a long time.

If the car is a beater (as it appears), go with the cheap option.  Your nephew will probably run the car into the ground anyway. 

The car was my fathers and handed down to me in 1999 as my high school grad gift. It's been in the family for 23 out of the 25 years it's existed.

If it were my nephew needing a car and was going to use it, I'd say tell him to get a job and buy what he can afford. Tough life lesson.

It's a simple exhaust question Country.  If you want more of a full story, he's married and 25 years old.  He's moving from FL to Kentucky and needs a car for 2 months while his wife finishes college In Florida.  He'll get in Infiniti M45 then.  Ultimately the way I see it, it's my car and even though my brother's been using it on his farm, just to keep the fluids moving around, it's not anybody's fault that the exhuast is rotted to hell.  I replaced it about 10 years ago when it was still my daily driver.  Just being that it's an older vehicle, parts are getting harder and harder to find. 

So do I go with the $700 Calmini exhaust as pictured here in this link.

http://www.calmini.com/detail.php?b=2&m=40&t=4&p=853&n= (http://www.calmini.com/detail.php?b=2&m=40&t=4&p=853&n=)

Or

http://www.petroworks.com/doug-thorley-1-3-header/ (http://www.petroworks.com/doug-thorley-1-3-header/)

and just throw a stock cat and exhaust on there and risk it rotting away in two years all over again?

straight pipe and call it a day  8-)

Ha! Thanks! Still need me some street legality.

You may want to just rip the entire exhaust out and start from scratch. Actually, I think it would be more important to repair all of the other rust on the underbody; the exhaust is pretty easy to replace compared to the rest of your car.

Granted if you have the time of course.

That makes a little more sense, I thought it was like a nephew was using it as a first car(16 years old). What us the price difference between stock and aftermarket?

I would go after market and turn it into a project car them little things are troopers

Yeah. Don't have the money to do what I want to the undercarriage. Which is to spray it with the stuff they use on pickup truck bed liners. The rhino stuff.  I'm thinking of just getting the headers and have a local shop install a 1.75" pipe with a stock cat and muffler.  The reality is that it's a stock 66 hp engine, which is probably down to 60 hp now after 25 years.  Putting in the headers alone should bring it back up to stock.

Off topic, but you started I. You can get the do it yourself truck bed liner stuff for relatively cheap. IIRC, I paid 9 bucks for one spray can of it which did 3 coats on my atv racks and I still have plenty left.

Was the old one a complete Borla system? Doesn't most of there stuff come with a life time warranty. I know my Borla exhaust did.

The old one was a bullet system. Regardless, I went with just the headers. I did get a shit load of other parts to the tune of $650.

Gonna turn it into a trail truck?

No. I was actually talking for a while to a guy named Dave at Petroworks. He was telling me that I probably have the only stock samurai left in the world. Funny.

Yeah I was about to say, that stuff comes in a can.  If you have access to a lift, it would be real easy to do.  

They do roll on as well.

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Got the headers installed.

Tim, if you don't mind, I'm gonna use this thread for my progress on my Suzuki.  Let me know if that's okay.

Here's a picture if it moved to my moms garage.

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Not okay. Nyeh!

Well, good thing I'm not asking you Z-bag.

You should look again.

I'm looking and I'm still not asking you.

Douche. Good thing you and I have the same privileges in here.

You butt hurt bro?

It's cool Nelson.  What an ugly color though.

A little vibrant for a Samurai

LMAO...

At one point it was white, then the white turned off-white. Then I had it painted yellow in 2001

I think the yellow suits Nelson just fine. 


 :gay2:

You're just mad that it isn't purple.

Well it got posted on Craigslist and sold later that day for $2,650.

Bye Zook.

What!?! I thought you were mated with it and would never part ways! :(

Whaaaaaaaaaat???

Da fuq?!

Need the cash for a house.

I think my dad paid $4k for it 23 years ago