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I took our Focus to my exhaust guy yesterday to have some trickery worked on the old boy. 75k miles, and it was time for an improvement. For a little background, shortly after we bought our Focus back in 06, I had the lunchbox removed, and a Flowmaster Stainless Steel tip put on the car. Looked good, sounded good, etc. Several months ago, I was loading groceries into the car, my leg hit the Flowmaster tip, and it fell off. It was rotted extremely bad. We drove it as is for a while, no biggie.
This weekend, my wife went out of town, and I decided to get the exhaust system taken care of. I bought a Thrush Glasspack, and a Pilot Stainless Steel tip for the Focus, and drove up to Indianapolis for surgery. I bought a 2" inlet/outlet, 25" long Thrush Glasspack for ~ $20 and the exhaust tip was ~ $15. We got the car on the lift, and got our action plan together.
We cut off the muffler by the rear wheel on the driver's side, and we cut a length of pipe out directly behind the second catalytic converter. We welded the Glasspack just aft of the converter, took the pipe that was cut out of there, and recycled it to use where the muffler went. We bent it to the right shape, and it looks like it was always there. Reusing the stainless steel pipe was a great idea by my exhaust guy (Murphy). We then bent up a new piece of pipe to take the place of the pipe that the old tip was welded to.
Took around an hour for the fabrication, and cost $100. The car sounds great. The Glasspack gives it a deeper, more throaty tone, while allowing a bit more flow. No drone inside the car, and while it is a tad louder inside the car in general, the sound outside is simply awesome. Can't be more pleased with the results. While the car was in the air, I added some freon to the A/C to improve the cooling of the passenger compartment.
All in all, a great day of modding the Focus....don't get to do that too often.
Now to clean the car....ugh (my wife is messy!!)
Oh, and a reminder of the work is now on the rear window...
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I don't know why more people don't look to a good glasspack when wanting to do exhaust work. They provide good tone, not too expensive, and can fit just about anything.
I took our Focus to my exhaust guy yesterday to have some trickery worked on the old boy. 75k miles, and it was time for an improvement. For a little background, shortly after we bought our Focus back in 06, I had the lunchbox removed, and a Flowmaster Stainless Steel tip put on the car. Looked good, sounded good, etc. Several months ago, I was loading groceries into the car, my leg hit the Flowmaster tip, and it fell off. It was rotted extremely bad. We drove it as is for a while, no biggie.
This weekend, my wife went out of town, and I decided to get the exhaust system taken care of. I bought a Thrush Glasspack, and a Pilot Stainless Steel tip for the Focus, and drove up to Indianapolis for surgery. I bought a 2" inlet/outlet, 25" long Thrush Glasspack for ~ $20 and the exhaust tip was ~ $15. We got the car on the lift, and got our action plan together.
We cut off the muffler by the rear wheel on the driver's side, and we cut a length of pipe out directly behind the second catalytic converter. We welded the Glasspack just aft of the converter, took the pipe that was cut out of there, and recycled it to use where the muffler went. We bent it to the right shape, and it looks like it was always there. Reusing the stainless steel pipe was a great idea by my exhaust guy (Murphy). We then bent up a new piece of pipe to take the place of the pipe that the old tip was welded to.
Took around an hour for the fabrication, and cost $100. The car sounds great. The Glasspack gives it a deeper, more throaty tone, while allowing a bit more flow. No drone inside the car, and while it is a tad louder inside the car in general, the sound outside is simply awesome. Can't be more pleased with the results. While the car was in the air, I added some freon to the A/C to improve the cooling of the passenger compartment.
All in all, a great day of modding the Focus....don't get to do that too often.
Now to clean the car....ugh (my wife is messy!!)
Oh, and a reminder of the work is now on the rear window...
I don't know why more people don't look to a good glasspack when wanting to do exhaust work. They provide good tone, not too expensive, and can fit just about anything.
