[NewM235Owner]

This is not rocket science but in case it helps anyone, or gives someone courage to do this, it was not a big deal. My local place wanted about $300 to do this and basically it involves one cut, and a little time. I'm always looking for opportunities where I can teach my sons not to be afraid to go at a project, so this was a good one. I bought the MPE from Brian Keller at sunmotorcars for appx. $800 delivered.

The first thing I realized is that it is tight where you are going to make the cut, so I wasn't comfortable using a reciprocating saw, like a sawzall or a jigsaw. It might have worked, I just didn't have the right length metal blade for the jigsaw and the sawzall I really wasn't comfortable with it given the limited space.

If I had a lift I might have tried it, but with wheel ramps there really isn't a lot of maneuvering room. So I bought one of these for $35 from Amazon delivered the next day. I highly recommend it. (And you can buy mine for $20 if you want it, its been used once)



First I supported the muffler to take the tension off the hangar brackets.


Lubricant and channel pliers come in handy. Spray around the rubber hanger.




I used the channel pliers to get the rubber hangar over the knob, and then put my left hand on the muffler and right hand on the hangar and just pushed/pulled for a few seconds and separated them. Then I did the same thing on the other side. Pretty quick.

I also unplugged the electronics.



The measuring was a little frustrating because of the turns of the pipe, but eventually I just used a piece of blue tape to measure the new pipe length and then transferred that to the existing pipe.



I used the pipe cutter to cut it - it worked pretty well, but it cut certain portions through before other portions, and I had to finish the last little bit with a hacksaw, but it just took about 10 minutes overall. I used a half-round metal file to clean up the interior of the pipe and a shop vac to suck the filings out of the pipe. Then I put the clamp on the pipe and we mounted the new muffler in the hangers and attached the plug.



Then we adjusted the tailpipes exactly where we wanted them within the slots, this took a little maneuvering and messing around, and you tighten the clamp a little, then make sure they are where you want them, then tighten a little more, etc. and then wheneverything is right where you want it you crank it down.


I used a rubber mallet to hammer my old black tips on the tailpipes


And I like the new sound.