Cost for dual exhaust?
He's looking for an installed price. Can he assume your gonna put it in for him. :D
Looks like you do nice work.
I do ok. :D But yeah, I'm not going to install it for him. ;)
But he was looking for a "pipes
and installation" price. If the pipes with mufflers cost $250, the rest is installation. If I can do a full installation in an afternoon, including welding all the joints, $550 seems high. Even in California that's a good 5 hours of work at mid-to-upper rate shop, and on a lift it shouldn't take nearly that long with guys that do exhaust work all the time. I'm not a novice, but I don't install exhaust systems every day either, and I did mine laying on my back under a car on jackstands with welding slag falling on me.
Obviously there's more to it than that, part selection makes a big difference. My Dynomax ultra-flo's set me back $160, that whole summit kit is only $250. Of course, the flip side is an exhaust shop should be able to spend a lot less on materials. Even the mufflers.
$800 isn't totally out of line if we're talking a high quality operation with name brand mufflers and mandrel bent tubing, but it's definitely the high side. I would think you could save a least a couple hundred bucks on that rate depending on what you're spec'ing out for mufflers, etc.
