You know, looking at this post got me thinking about when I had the Flowmasters added to my car. BTW I love em, nice mellow idle, pretty quiet cruise, and nice loud note on wot.
Anyway, I saw the price quoted for Flowmasters in the post above and had one of those "uh oh" moments. I know I paid a lot more when I had them installed.
I checked the Flowmaster site and saw that they had two types for the C5 (silver ones at $200something and black ones at $400something). I had the black ones installed on my car last year.
At the same visit I also had a Blackwing installed and an oil change. I pulled the receipt and found the bill came to $2300 :-O.
Try as I may, I cant seem to reconcile how the floook it came to that much. Allowing eight or nine hundred for the mufflers, three hundred for the blackwing and a hundred for the oil change (yes I know, those may be high estimates, but.....thats the point
), that leaves a whole lotta room till you get to where you have to squint to bearly see $2300.
Now I'm no mechanic, but I'm pretty sure you could put a blackwing in backwards, ...twice, in an hour and still have time to put it in the right way; and even allowing two hours for the exhaust work (which seems more than reasonable to me, pretty sure they are bolt in replacements and I dont think anything forward of the rear end was touched) that would be.........lets see........$233 / hr labor (dagnabbit!). (I dont think a pitstop at the Indianapolis 500 cost that much).
As to why I paid it, well.....lets just say I was new to the "vette" thing and a little paranoid about taking the car anywhere other than the place I bought it (specialty vette dealer) to have work done. What can I say? I'm older and wiser now (well...not sure about the wiser part....but I have found an excellent mechanic since then, so Im good to go for the present and any future work I may need).
I just wanted a reality check, am I missing something (special U clamps made of priceless unobtainium?)? or is the picture as bleek (s/p?) as it appears to me?
4LT GS Roadster
