that is very high...him selling your 4 stock cats will get him a minimum of $200 he is making $440 on replacing 2 cats and welding in a piece of pipe in place of the rear ones

 

I forgot to mention that he told me he didn't really care for hi flows and actually stated he thought I might see a slight change in sound but not much. And no increase in HP, which is not why I am doing this in the first place..but what are the pros / cons?

 

it will be much louder

 

Pretty sure you have the right to your old parts back if you ask for them. If he still refuses to give them back then tell him to discount what he is charging you the amount he will get for selling your old cats. When I sold mine I got $200.

 

now i got a question on this subject. im plannin on swapping my 2 rear cats for hi flows and keepin the stock pre-cats. would that help the sound? i just dont wanna deal with all the bull of them cuttin out all 4 cats, and all i want is more sound

 

^ Then just delete the rears.

 

how would i pass inspection? VA is hard on emissions.

 

Do they sniff test? Replacing the rears with hiflows won't change much at all, if any. Either delete the rears or replace all 4 with 2 hiflows and be done with it.

 

I don't know of any shops around here that will install something you didn't buy from them. And as far as him keeping your old cats, I frequent two local salvage yards. One only pays out $8 per cat, not knowing the quantity of the material inside and the other will only buy cats from a shop because too many people were cutting them off peoples cars and scrapping them. It was a big news story here in Orlando about a year ago.

 

We had a problem with that around here too. people....

 

Here around me I can can get $75-$100 per cat. $240 is about right.. You figure it would be about $30-$40 in materials, and 2-3 hours of labor.. Sounds cheap to me actually. When i had my exhaust done it cost me around $550 from my long tubes back to tips..