Anyway, the car is of course the 73 Javelin with 360 - it currently has headers, collectors, 3" STRAIGHT pipes welded to the collectors, then back to Flowmaster super 40s, then dumps roughly by the rear axle (under the axle)

Plan - replace those huge city water pipes to raise the exhaust up off the road, have an H cross-over put in, and TAIL PIPES to take it out the rear, not dump it under the car.
(yeah after all the discussion, ideas and responses from my post on that topic, I have indeed been swayed to a cheaper H option, especially to keep the raspy sound out and make it sound more "muscle". Thanks for that.........)

They shot me a ROUGH idea "700-1,000 depending on mufflers" etc.
OUCH A grand for exhaust pipes? Really?
You'd think they'd have patterns on hand for the stock type tail pipes and be able to make those in a heartbeat, and the front pipes can't be that much different - a couple of angles to get more clearance and tuck them up so the exhaust can go up over the axles like stock pipes.

Mufflers - I'm torn - Flowmaster 40s - keep those or replace them - they were talking a hundred bucks PER MUFFLER for new mufflers. Really? Have decent mufflers really shot up that badly - to one hundred bucks a pop?
I guess that explains the range 700-1,000 in a way - use my mufflers or install new..

Isn't that a bit steep for a system collector to tail pipe??

The flowmaster "super 40s" don't have even ten thousand miles on 'em - the car hasn't logged that many miles since the guy put them under there, but maybe there are better or mufflers that would NOT cut power at all but still sound decent.

So what does anyone think of a grand for two pipes and mufflers going back to tail pipes?

I take it in tomorrow and they are going to actually LOOK at the car and LOOK and MEAsURE to give me a closer idea instead of a shot in the dark - but it it's that #$%%$# much money, #$%# it.

Anyway, the price did shock me for sure............ I was almost speechless...... but then it seems someone else has responded that his system wasn't all that far from a grand.
I'd think for a cool grand, it should come with chrome tips with Pierre Cardin's signature on them.

Last year I got a quote from another bender because the local guy died.  This is for my 2002 Gmc 1/2 ton 4x4. I have a set of Flowmaster tailpipes a friend gave me.  The price for a knock off FM 10 about 2 feet of 3 inch pipe and the labor to install was $450.  I am going to install it myself when the time comes.

I have to suspect the H isn't a big factor - but with headers and totally separate systems, you have that cackle and it's not as mellow. Also a slight power difference by allowing for the balance. 
The engine is built.........  and it has headers, no head pipes. (and from what I have been finding the engine is likely to get dropped out of it and gone through a bit in a year or two)

I had thought about having some sort of joint like was used on cat converters, some sort of a four bolt flange so I could drop the center out. The transmission may also come out some day, or even just to ACCESS things!

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I had Flowmaster 40s with LX tailpipes on my Hornet.   Got them for free from a Mustang guy updating his system.   Fit ok and lasted several years including winter salted roads.    Sounded sorta like every other Mustang with Flowmasters, if you like that kinda thing. Cool with the Burger-King crowd when in your early 20s.  Droned a bit during cruise. 

Suggest check Summit or Jegs or favourite mail-order house for pipes, mufflers and tips. Jones Max Flow seem to be an economical performance muffler if you like a big-case, straight-through glass pack rather than a tinny, drone-prone Flowmaster. 

Aluminized pipes last a long time - especially with a bit of high-temp paint.   For easy disassembly, I've got stainless band clamps just before the mufflers, so support mufflers, remove band clamps and collector bolts and drop out the mid-section w/ X-pipe.   Have a transmission jack to hoist it up for easier alignment and reassembly (tired of trying to muscle things into place). 

Hope this helps, RD

So I'm starting to wonder if that isn't close to the "new normal"?

Anyway, NO, to doing it myself....... 

By the way - I like the mellow sound of the SIDEPIPES on my 70 so if I could approach that sound......

Have big-case glass packs now (Hooker Max Flow) and like the sound better.   But they are old and glass packs tend to get louder as they age.   The Jones Max Flow mufflers are a similar design for about 1/2 the price, stainless steel case and longer case options that should be a bit quieter.   

But you have the Flowmasters, so if the car is mostly for fun and short cruises, seems simplest and most economical option just to refit them with reducers if needed.   Can always get new mufflers later if you find you don't like them ... assuming they are a standard case size and inlet/outlet arrangement.

Hope this helps, RD

Supposedly they are building this so I can easily drop the center out - unbolt the collectors and take loose a couple other spots and drop pipes out of the way, leaving tail pipes in place, for maintenance, etc.
They also give a call when they get back so far and you can come in to give a test-listen to different mufflers and options on your own car. 

Seriously, this is Iowa, worse, it's Des Moines - our options on so many things are extremely limited. Things the rest of you take for granted you can't get locally here. 

I've made an appointment - and from what I'm seeing, the price is really pretty much in line what what others have gotten.
This place is less than 30 minutes away, I can drop the car off and go in later to audition mufflers, then pick it up end of day - and not have to stay there or trailer it or drive a half day there and half day back.

It costs as much to take a car half-way across the state as I'd save - then if anything was wrong, they'd still be a half state away.