Sagging is so 1993!

Shop #1 screwed up on my Remus exhaust install - the pipes hung way too low and jutted out way too far like a pair of machine guns. Shop #2 was able to tuck the tips in a bit and get the exhausts to sit higher into the diffuser, but the hangers were still a cluster-fuck of a job and after some spirited driving the left muffler would start to droop significantly lower than the right side (due to the metal expanding after heating up and pushing down the rubber hangers). So today I went back to shop #2 to see if they could fix the problem but they didn't have time to work on it today and I wasn't totally convinced they knew what the best approach was. They wanted to shorten the pipes in FRONT of the muffler and that was a scary thought since so much could go wrong and that's the part people see!

I then drove over to Automotive Connoisseur Group and they put the car on the lift to take a look. Listening to the (good) ideas being thrown back and forth by the two techs at ACG,  I knew I was at the right shop. After about 30 minutes of analyzing all the options we agreed that the most important thing to do was to re-do the hangers so that they housed the mufflers as they were deigned to (instead of the make-shift crap that was there). We also decided not to mess with the length of the exhaust any more since there was a huge chance we'd get ourselves into more trouble without much potential gain. Plus, if the tips sat higher in the diffuser holes, the exhausts wouldn't look like they were sticking out as much since the tops of the pipes wouldn't be as visible.

I picked up the car 5 hours later and I'm really, really glad I went to ACG. The exhausts are now sitting snugly in the diffuser, they don't shift around, and after my drive home the left and right pipes sat in the same position as when they were cold! ACG told me that they actually heated the pipes before they did the final welds to make sure there wasn't going to be any shifting...I think I know where I'm going for my future installs!

I've definitely leaned my lesson and realized that some things are just worth paying more for. Modding cars with aftermarket parts isn't a normal car repair that anyone can do and all you have to do is worry about getting the lowest price...it takes skill, experience, and attention to detail to get the results you want.