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PostPosted: May 6, 2017, 4:09 am 
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Hello everyone. I'm sure you all know me by now. If not, where have you been?! JK. I know I haven't posted much lately. As some of you know, I'm stopping my build for now as my business is keeping me busy.

So a little about 8Eight Fab. I started this business as a part time gig to help pay for tools. This month it's 1 year old. A friend of mine came to me and asked if I could make a downpipe for his Volvo V70R. Only 1 company makes them and they are $900. Yes, $900 for a downpipe. We figured all the materials out. Less then $200 huh? He posted a picture of it and people went crazy over it. We sold 10 in 4 days. Took me 2 months to build them. That paid for my new TIG welder. I started off selling them for $339, now they sell for $419 plus shipping. 1 year later and I've sold 34 of them. I've sold 1 to Australia and another to Belgium, the rest all over the country. I now offer different version of them from catless to a 2 piece where you can swap between a cat piece and a straight pipe. Most expensive one I sold was $619.

I've had customers asked me to do all sorts of projects. Most interesting one was a dual 3 inch tip. This one was very challenging as he told me I only had 6-1/4" to fit 2 3" pipes. Not much room to work with. I made a custom Y pipe and bought 2 double wall 3" tips on eBay. (Ebay is a great place for exhaust tips, long as it says stainless steel, it's usually good.) I had Botbasher coat it as it was a little rough.

I've done a couple of custom exhaust for local guys. My favorite being MNots full exhaust for his locost. He pretty much did the header, I just welded it.

I've built 2 exhaust for my Subaru WRX. My Volvo I bought from my friend so it has the 1st downpipe I built.

Sorry for the lack of pictures everyone. I'll get those up when I'm on wifi.

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PostPosted: May 9, 2017, 2:12 am 
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I'm having a hard time uploaded images to the site so I'll be using photobucket for the time being.

My buddy Anthony who I've known since 1st grade (22 years ago) owns a 2004 dodge neon SRT4. He came over the other weekend and I built him an oval side exit exhaust and added a resonator to his setup. Resonator helped with the rasp and the side exit is just cool. Haha.

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Next up was the exhaust for the Subaru. 3" all the way from the downpipe out the rear bumper. Spin tech muffler with dual rolled edge 3" tips.

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Next was a custom 3" dual tip I made for a customers s60R Volvo. This one was tricky as I only had 6-1/4" of room to work with. That meant putting the 3" double wall tips directly beside each other. I welded them together at a staggered angle to flow with the rear bumper. Ken (BotBasher) coated them for my customer.

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PostPosted: May 9, 2017, 2:18 am 
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Had a 1.8T VW jetta stop by. I build him a test pipe as well as a catback.

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I also did some upgrades to the downpipes.

Added the bracket for the heat shield.

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Upgraded to better hangers.

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There is a 95 mustang Cobra sitting in the garage currently. I'm building a side exit for his car.

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