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Hey guys,
I need some help here, I had a dynomax exhaust on my 91 Lx, but it got damaged on a pot hole a while ago. I put it in the shop to have it fixed and they ended up replacing a lot of stuff including my nice dynomax muffler with a cheap $15 muffler. So I am now replacing them with flowmaster mufflers.

Once I went out to get started though I noticed the replaced pipe, from the muffler out, is only 2.25inch. The rest of my exhaust is 2.5 inch. So I need a piece of 2.5 inch pipe to go from my muffler over my axle. Then I have stainless steel tips I'm welding on. However, all the shops around me only carry the stock 2.25inch bent pipe and 2.5inch straight pipe. How can I get this pipe bent, or how can I bend it myself? I found some shops that will do it, but they will only bend it if they are installing it and want to charge me around $100 to do it. I would prefer not to spend that if I don't have to.

Does anyone have any ideas?

two trees close together and some back power make a good pipe bender.

I don't know how strong the metal exhaust pipes are made out of is. I assume, not that strong. Could I bend it half way decently just using some leverage and some kind of pivot point?

I was kinda kidding. I wouldn't recommend trying to bend the pipe like that. You'll probably end up kinking it somewhere. You would probably get better flow rates w/ the 2.25 inch bent professionally than 2.5 inch pipe bent between two trees or another pivot.