Exhaust question?

Well Installed my 2.5 exhaust from Summit, this exhaust was made for hooker competition head and that's what I have.

The good :-)
the drivers side went in fairly easy i was actually surprised how well it went in all though i had to trim an inch off the pipe around the rear end coming out of the muffler for clearance.

The bad :-(
They obviously designed this for automatic cars cause the reverse shifter linkage hits the pipe so i had to put a small dent in it.
The passenger side well is a different story i had to pretty much trim and custom fit every pipe and took me quite a while but got it done.

I'm going to take the car to a friends shop and weld where most of the clamps are there are allot of clamps 12 actually i will just leave the ones on the muffler and trim the tail pipes to fit my factory chrome tips.

Just wanted to let anyone who is planning on doing this what to expect.
the kit was about $220
most local shops wanted 400 to 600 to do the exhaust