Originally Posted by
westcoaststyle
I never actually bought a full cat-back exhaust. Sounds like your mechanic is either not a muffler/exhaust guy or is lazy. I went with the universal N1 muffler and just had the rest of my piping made. It's not a big deal to get a universal muffler and just integrate it into your exhaust, especially if you're not looking for performance gains. All they have to do is hack off your muffler, weld new hangers onto your new muffler and weld it onto the existing piping on your car. They might have to expand the piping on the muffler so it will slide over your existing piping, but that's common. Just spend the ~$150 on the muffler and get them to install it. Very simple process.
westcoast has a good point. but you also got to look at as if you put a universal muffler on and if you use your stock pipes, they are going to eventually rust out. i ran into the same problem. the who had my car before me put just a new muffler on and eventually the stock mid pipe started to rust out and broke loose, i ended up putting an Apexi World Sport 2 cat-back exhaust on my car, it sounds and runs better. dont settle for the first thing you see. i did alot of research and pricing before i bought an exhaust.