Buy a used system somehow - they practically last forever.
Where are you located?

On May 22, 7:43 pm, "Gerard Carbone III" <bone1...@ptdprolog.net>
wrote:

That's the "Porsche" tax... the shops see the crest, and they get
dollar signs in their eyes.

Go to a more reasonable shop.  There is nothing magic about the
exhaust.

There may be a shop that will let you buy & bring in your own parts
and just charge labor.

The original equipment part (from Porsche) is significantly better made than
most of the aftermarket stuff, and will last a lot longer.  The cheap parts
you've found will corrode a lot more quickly, and you'll end up replacing
them in a few years.  You will need to replace the gasket between the
cat-back exhaust and the cat, and you might want to consider replacing the
rubber hangars and one or more of the metal supports for them -- the rubber
parts are probably brittle, and the metal hangars are probably pretty
corroded too.

Kevin
Catellus Engineering

Get on Pelican and see if anyone is parting out a car or converting a
stock car to a track car.  The factory stuff seems to last a good long
time.  If it were anywhere forward of the muffler I would say just have
the muffler shop weld in a new piece of pipe, but that close to the tip
it would probably show.

good luck

nate