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9 hours ago, Milkmun said:

Have a look at JS Performance Garage, just did a bit of work on a 32 GTR.

Yeh nice, looks like their part of keep it reet? Will have to swing past. I'd much prefer someone actually look at my car and custom make a part, then get a generic part online and hope it works. 

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On 13/03/2025 at 8:06 AM, PotatoCake said:

Yeh nice, looks like their part of keep it reet? Will have to swing past. I'd much prefer someone actually look at my car and custom make a part, then get a generic part online and hope it works. 

Jesse was their ex lead mechanic/fab, left and now doing his own thing in their old building.

At least you can see his old workmanship on their old videos 😂 

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On 12/03/2025 at 11:50 PM, Butters said:

these guys recommended to me and supplied custom 4 inch mufflers, couldn't be happier. They will spec a muffler to your preferred level of sound and know RB's well. 

https://spmufflers.com.au/

+1 for these guys, they just made me a custom muffler for another car (old Merc V8 not a Skyline) and they are legends to work with and do very nice work at a reasonable price.

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I was going to contact them but their custom stuff doesn't seem custom enough on the website.

Are they amenable to "Hey can you make this custom thing" (i.e a muffler outside of the dimensions the website shows?)

I suppose all I can do is call them instead of buying something from Vibrant which has the specs.

1 hour ago, Kinkstaah said:

I was going to contact them but their custom stuff doesn't seem custom enough on the website.

Are they amenable to "Hey can you make this custom thing" (i.e a muffler outside of the dimensions the website shows?)

I suppose all I can do is call them instead of buying something from Vibrant which has the specs.

I'm not sure if I'm just out of touch these days, but is Vibrants stuff not ridiculously expensive?

I understand it's quality, but even for high quality it seems insanely expensive.

7 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

I'm not sure if I'm just out of touch these days, but is Vibrants stuff not ridiculously expensive?

I understand it's quality, but even for high quality it seems insanely expensive.

It's... way cheaper than what SP have on their website? I can only imagine if I say "can you make this muffler, but entirely different dimensions outside of the spec you offer as customization on your page" it would get even more pricey.

I was looking at their race mufflers or their 'ultra quiet resonators' which are just smaller mufflers.

They start at $166 USD which is $264. SP mufflers resonators start from $299 and are too long/not wide enough/can't be made short enough.

IIRC, it only cost me a couple of hundred dollars to get an Liverpool Exhaust to fabricate a custom stainless resonator for me to fit in the available realestate that I had under the car

I actually watched as they did it, took about 1 hour to cut up the material, tig weld the body of it, and then add it to the exhaust 

4"in and out, with a packed 5" body, that was about 12" long

In the end, it is some blindly simple sheet metal work for an exhaust shop, and some welding 

 

1 hour ago, Kinkstaah said:

It's... way cheaper than what SP have on their website? I can only imagine if I say "can you make this muffler, but entirely different dimensions outside of the spec you offer as customization on your page" it would get even more pricey.

I was looking at their race mufflers or their 'ultra quiet resonators' which are just smaller mufflers.

They start at $166 USD which is $264. SP mufflers resonators start from $299 and are too long/not wide enough/can't be made short enough.

The main stuff from.Vibrant I see is more their intercooler piping, and everyone raving about their clamps, but when I looked it was about $150 per clamp... I was a bit :/

 

I also thought the public price SP had up was high.

As Mark said, a normal exhaust shop can fab them.

It was many years ago that I had a full exhaust built, but for a full turbo back exhaust, and 2 custom built mufflers, plus a high flow cat, was about $1,100, and that was fully installed, drive in, drive out.

I believe SP was about $900 for 2 mufflers, just supplied :/

 

These days, I just buy the material and built it myself, because I need to stretch my $$$

It's the same with many brands that find their way into promotion via Youtube channel sponsorships. Those stainless guys, e-mail cut shippit, various other service and product companies.... they try to make it so that the only name that comes to mind when you think of doing those things is them, and then you just go get their stuff because your favourite channels are using it, so it must be good AND good value. Notwithstanding that the YT'ers don't pay anything for it. But a lot of people are not that sophisticated.

54 minutes ago, Ozdavroz said:

Is that USD $50k? 🤑

$30k usd so around $50k aud. Their like obsessed and anything skyline related they pay stupid money for. Like the flogs on facebook trying to sell the drivers knee pads for $1,500 aud

1 hour ago, GTSBoy said:

It's the same with many brands that find their way into promotion via Youtube channel sponsorships. Those stainless guys, e-mail cut shippit, various other service and product companies.... they try to make it so that the only name that comes to mind when you think of doing those things is them, and then you just go get their stuff because your favourite channels are using it, so it must be good AND good value. Notwithstanding that the YT'ers don't pay anything for it. But a lot of people are not that sophisticated.

I don't have the budget, or mind set for that game.

I see their stuff, would like that setup, but won't justify the price when something at 1/10th the price works adequately for me.

Or if I can manufacture it myself, I'll do that instead of buy it.

2 hours ago, Kinkstaah said:

If anyone has any suggestions for a 300-350mm long (or thereabouts) stainless muffler that is 3inch in and out I'm listening ;)

Store bought, like dis

 https://racecraftaus.com/products/muffler-oval-new?variant=39611886305393

On 14/03/2025 at 10:17 AM, Kinkstaah said:

I was going to contact them but their custom stuff doesn't seem custom enough on the website.

Are they amenable to "Hey can you make this custom thing" (i.e a muffler outside of the dimensions the website shows?)

I suppose all I can do is call them instead of buying something from Vibrant which has the specs.

My muffler was fully customised to suit the car. He mailed me the end caps, I marked up the pipe locations (4 pipes in a single muffler) and he sent it back all welded.

Certainly more expensive than a mass produced generic size, but that's hardly surprising.

My R32 Exhaust has a Magnaflow muffler in it, if I need generic mufflers then they're usually a safe bet. I've got the Vibrant clamps on the intercooler pipes, just because they're nicer to use than the bolt together ones and not as expensive as a real Wiggins clamp.

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On 14/3/2025 at 8:19 PM, PotatoCake said:

They’re like obsessed and anything skyline related they pay stupid money for. Like the flogs on facebook trying to sell the drivers knee pads for $1,500 aud

 Don’t know if any one has noticed but there’s a few US spare parts companies that have purchased what seems like all the new old stock NISMO/Skyline parts and charging rich US dollars

Has anyone used or considered Hi-tech mufflers, Bourke St Darlinghurst?

They were the cream of the crop in quality and workmanship when I had my turbo Forester

They specialized in custom stainless exhaust systems, especially for Euro supercars

On 12/03/2025 at 10:07 PM, Milkmun said:

Have a look at JS Performance Garage, just did a bit of work on a 32 GTR.

Went down and had a chat with him yesterday, nice guy. Will be getting a full custom hard pipe intakes setup done next week! Exhaust, im still figuring out what path to go down. Some are saying the varex's hang too low because of the valve it has at the top

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