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RM 180 for a custom Y-Pipe...
It's true! Excluding the flex-pipe, as I used my old one...
I got tired of waiting for news of our Y-Pipe, so, at the recommendation of a friend, I went down to JFA Motorsport down at Sunway. Jafa is well known for his work with performance vehicles and is a favourite among the Evo and WRX communities. I have always been a little hesitant about going there as I was certain that a guy who does these kind of vehicles has to be expensive... :sad_smile:
Anyway, I got there at around lunch time on Monday. Jafa is quite a humble and friendly fellow who understands his customers' concerns. After waiting for a bit, as it was a busy day and all his jacks were full, he jacked up the car, took a look at my Y-Pipe and shook his head...
After taking the thing off, he told his guy to cut out all the flanges and the flex pipe, and redo all the piping. I am impressed with his people's care for detail. His welder took pains to allign both pipes precisely before putting on the Y-joint. After putting everything together with spot welds, they obviously took it down again to weld everything together.
The final result is truly a very nice piece or work. All piping neatly welded, both downpipe sections bent and alligned perfectly parallel before combining in a y-joint and a flex pipe to the first flange. All done with various sections of 90 degree mandrel bends. The only manually bent section is a little inward bend of the forward pipe to allign it towards the first flange.
I can truthfully say that there is very little restriction in the overall construction, and the performance bears me out. The engine idles 150 rpm higher, and there are no flat spots in the power curve. Unfortunately, I was so eager to try it out, I didn't have time to have them take it down again to photograph. Needless to say, I was happy with the performance...smooth, no vibrations, and no flat spot....
What I liked about JFA...
a) No customer is too unimportant. He gives you the same attention as he gives people coming in driving a beamer. Well, maybe a little less...it takes time to count all those thousands of RM50 bills...
b) No forward appointments or any other rubbish you hear from other exhaust shops like "no time", "very difficult" etc. A lot of these people are reluctant to do the work. They prefer the "easy-money" part of the business that involves convincing customers to put on as expensive a muffler as possible and selling centre mufflers and bullets of indeterminate performance. Jafa made his reputation doing exactly this...designing exhaust systems for people. You drive in, you discuss what you want done, you listen to his recommendation, and his people do it for you. He checks at every stage, and corrects any discrepancies in his people's work. He will test the final result before proclaiming the job done.
c) He and his people are nice and friendly. Easy going and willing to talk to you. He has an air conditioned showroom that you can wait in. In fact, if you guys want to do a Y-pipe day, this would be a nice place to have a T/T session. We just send a couple of guys to the hawker centre nearby to get us some T/T...
d) His price. He charges a decent price for good work done and piping. My friend driving a Caldina did his downpipe there, and he paid RM 180 as well. The last time I asked for my Celica (exactly the same downpipe), somebody wanted to charge me RM 600 for an hour's work...grrrrr....
When he told me how much it cost for my Y-pipe, I nearly fell down... :dong: I was expecting RM 300-400 or something and was prepared for it. Thinking I'd heard wrong, I asked him,"Are you sure?"...
Anyway, I was so impressed...and the rear of my car was beginning to sound real loud with the increased flow...I dropped in again today and put in a nice S-Flow. Nice pipe, no restrictions - idle rpm remains the same, and I actually get more pickup but a lot less noise. This cost me the price of the muffler which was RM 450, fully stainless steel construction and pretty damn large with a nice agressive tip.
JFA Motorsports is on the mainroad when you drive into Sunway. You should have no trouble finding his signboard. :ciao:
It's true! Excluding the flex-pipe, as I used my old one...
I got tired of waiting for news of our Y-Pipe, so, at the recommendation of a friend, I went down to JFA Motorsport down at Sunway. Jafa is well known for his work with performance vehicles and is a favourite among the Evo and WRX communities. I have always been a little hesitant about going there as I was certain that a guy who does these kind of vehicles has to be expensive... :sad_smile:
Anyway, I got there at around lunch time on Monday. Jafa is quite a humble and friendly fellow who understands his customers' concerns. After waiting for a bit, as it was a busy day and all his jacks were full, he jacked up the car, took a look at my Y-Pipe and shook his head...
After taking the thing off, he told his guy to cut out all the flanges and the flex pipe, and redo all the piping. I am impressed with his people's care for detail. His welder took pains to allign both pipes precisely before putting on the Y-joint. After putting everything together with spot welds, they obviously took it down again to weld everything together.
The final result is truly a very nice piece or work. All piping neatly welded, both downpipe sections bent and alligned perfectly parallel before combining in a y-joint and a flex pipe to the first flange. All done with various sections of 90 degree mandrel bends. The only manually bent section is a little inward bend of the forward pipe to allign it towards the first flange.
I can truthfully say that there is very little restriction in the overall construction, and the performance bears me out. The engine idles 150 rpm higher, and there are no flat spots in the power curve. Unfortunately, I was so eager to try it out, I didn't have time to have them take it down again to photograph. Needless to say, I was happy with the performance...smooth, no vibrations, and no flat spot....
What I liked about JFA...
a) No customer is too unimportant. He gives you the same attention as he gives people coming in driving a beamer. Well, maybe a little less...it takes time to count all those thousands of RM50 bills...
b) No forward appointments or any other rubbish you hear from other exhaust shops like "no time", "very difficult" etc. A lot of these people are reluctant to do the work. They prefer the "easy-money" part of the business that involves convincing customers to put on as expensive a muffler as possible and selling centre mufflers and bullets of indeterminate performance. Jafa made his reputation doing exactly this...designing exhaust systems for people. You drive in, you discuss what you want done, you listen to his recommendation, and his people do it for you. He checks at every stage, and corrects any discrepancies in his people's work. He will test the final result before proclaiming the job done.
c) He and his people are nice and friendly. Easy going and willing to talk to you. He has an air conditioned showroom that you can wait in. In fact, if you guys want to do a Y-pipe day, this would be a nice place to have a T/T session. We just send a couple of guys to the hawker centre nearby to get us some T/T...
d) His price. He charges a decent price for good work done and piping. My friend driving a Caldina did his downpipe there, and he paid RM 180 as well. The last time I asked for my Celica (exactly the same downpipe), somebody wanted to charge me RM 600 for an hour's work...grrrrr....
When he told me how much it cost for my Y-pipe, I nearly fell down... :dong: I was expecting RM 300-400 or something and was prepared for it. Thinking I'd heard wrong, I asked him,"Are you sure?"...
Anyway, I was so impressed...and the rear of my car was beginning to sound real loud with the increased flow...I dropped in again today and put in a nice S-Flow. Nice pipe, no restrictions - idle rpm remains the same, and I actually get more pickup but a lot less noise. This cost me the price of the muffler which was RM 450, fully stainless steel construction and pretty damn large with a nice agressive tip.
JFA Motorsports is on the mainroad when you drive into Sunway. You should have no trouble finding his signboard. :ciao:
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