anyone reccomend good exhaust work in upper hutt?

[flygt4]

I have a really good exhaust guy in porirua from when i lived in tawa, but but am now in upper hutt. my car has a dodgy wheel bearing and don't want to have to drive it too far. bearing is due to be fixed when i go for wof but need exhaust leaks fixed first.
need an easy section of 3" exhaust replaced and a wastegate dump pipe fabricated and merged with exhaust as well.

most exhaust places i've found to be pretty rough and charge a lot for the work done, has anyone used someone out this way that they were happy wih?

[~SlideWays~]

I have a really good exhaust guy in porirua from when i lived in tawa, but but am now in upper hutt. my car has a dodgy wheel bearing and don't want to have to drive it too far. bearing is due to be fixed when i go for wof but need exhaust leaks fixed first.
need an easy section of 3" exhaust replaced and a wastegate dump pipe fabricated and merged with exhaust as well.

most exhaust places i've found to be pretty rough and charge a lot for the work done, has anyone used someone out this way that they were happy wih?

I had Maidstone Mufflers put in a new flexi years ago. Nice job but a bit expensive.

In saying that, the guy wasn't interested in fabricating a wastgate pipe to my old manifold.

Try giving Shane at Mendoza Mechanical a call. He's keen on just about anything, and if not - he would probably suggest somewhere that will.

[devius]

hey jeremy

yeah glen at maidstone aint that tidy, been there twice and was less that impressed and i dont know if he will be keen.

shane mendoza got a new welder end of last year so i got him to play with my exhaust, i have had alot of work done there, he does good work and is a bloody good fellow
if ya wanna give him a call the number is 5277274

[flygt4]

yeah im trying to minimize the amound of trips i make in it so as not to damage the bearing too much further or get a bigass fine for no wof/no reg.
not 100% sure on what the rule is when driving it to places for repairs required by the last wof, and my month after testing has expired.

i could get the bearing done, then the exhaust, then back for wof but thats a lot of mucking round,I could cut a whole trip out by getting the welding down locally and combine the bearing and wof etc.

[devius]

yeah fair enough lol i would not really wanna be driving it round either


just give shane a call and say Aaron Tucker told ya to talk to him and explain what ya want and he will tell ya if he will or not. ya know where mendoza's is?

[flygt4]

no idea where mendozas is

[~SlideWays~]

Go passed H20 Extreeeeme, over the train tracks to the roundabout and its on the corner on opposite side to the left.

Big MENDOZA sign.

[devius]

yeah thats the one lol

shane's the shorter older guy, but just give him a call first and have a chat if baldrick(andrew) or carl answer say ya want to speak to shane

[devius]

and if ya want to see an example of both glens (maidstone muffler) or shane medonza's work ya can come look at my car.

[flygt4]

thats cool i'll have a word to them.

the only thing that needs a bit of thought is the wastegate dump pipe as it'll require a 1.5" flexi before the merge and need to flow pretty smoothly to prevent boost spikes.

exhaust is a straightforward job to replace an existing leaking 3" section from flrange to muffler and fasten the hangers more securely.

[flygt4]

guys there were really helpful. dropping it in on thursday for the wheelbearing, dude laughed when i mentioned i didnt know what type of hubs it has as there are about 6 types of wheelbearing

[flygt4]

guy there were extremely helpful, highly recommend them.

identified and replaced a bearing on an unknown hub within a day, and the cost was near half what i expected, i almost offered to pay more

[gurutasker]

So you've got it on the market now then?

[flygt4]

still got a of exhaust bits to sort out, hopefully this week all going well

[devius]

told ya they were good fellows