Originally Posted by overZealous1

$1099 is a bargain when you take into fact a manufacturer and distributor each make something off of it. stainless is not the cheapest material, and you end up with about 20% loss in bad bends due to stainless wanting to wrinkle instead of aluminized that bends like butter.
unfortuneately, everything is so outsourced now, the exhaust had to be built overseas and sold at a price where atleast 2 distributors make 10-20%, and still be underpriced.
the grade and mostly thickness of stainless is how they can get the price down. but, the thinner the stainless, the more bend loss due to wrinkle unless the bender is human operated and can stop it.
don't know who they outsourced, so i'm not putting my name on it tho.

Originally Posted by warmmilk

i never said it wasn't a bargain, i was just saying that 1100 bucks isn't cheap. and for about the same price, you can buy a proven exhuast system rather than going with something that not many people know much about, and even where or who made it like you said