you need to chill the fawk out dude...he was just simply stating that you're asking about performance gains and mandrel bent is better.

On the other hand Tirod...he got his exhaust for free and he just need to make it work for him so i don't think that's very feasible to go and get all new piping made.

I think that if you can straighten it out and run it under...go for it but the gains won't be too great unless the bend that you're talking about cuts the diamter down to like 1" consdering the rest of your piping is crush bent.