My Waldron Exhaust experience

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Years Owned: My first Toronado was a 1968 W-34 with the bucket seats and center console... (weeps gently) It was a New England rustbucket in 1982 after less than 14 years. So sad. But it is what infected me and before I knew it I had another '68, a '69, a '70 and eventually inherited a friend's '67 and another friends '73. After buying my brand new Grand Prix in 1988 I retired the last of my Toronados and pulled the 455 I had rebuilt along the way and put it into storage in a friend's barn where it is to this day.
In Mid September of 2010 I happened to see a repeat of the show where Jay Leno did his 66 Toronado and had an instant remission of the disease which resulted in my purchase of a 1969 in very good condition. I am now in the process of fully rehabilitating it and hope to have it on the road in the spring of 2011.
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My Waldron Exhaust experience

Postby xgecko » Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:40 am

Well, things did not go so smoothly at first with the new exhaust I installed which I purchased from Waldrons exhaust.

http://www.waldronexhaust.com/

The passenger side went in fine however the dogleg on the driver's side was bent a bit too far out and it was striking the frame. I worked with Waldrons to identify the issue and they had me send back the original pipe at their expense. Once we were comfortable with the pictures and such they bent me a new pipe and sent it out. I got it installed yesterday and what a huge difference!

I have nothing but good things to say about Waldrons. John is the tech that worked with me and he was clearly dedicated to making sure it worked right. I will most certainly be buying from them again for my next cars. They made it very clear they would stick with me until the exhaust worked properly.

They did throw in a custom front pipe for clearance of the Hydroboost unfortunately the bends did not work out quite right and the outlet of that pipe would not locate properly. This kind of thing is best done with the car available to them so it is no surprise and they did not charge me for the bonus job anyway. I was able to flatten a small area of the original manifold pipe to clear the Hydroboost, so it turns out the custom bend was not absolutely necessary. However, the fact that they were willing to do it in the first place speaks volumes about thier commitment to customer service.

I strongly recommend them as a source for the complete exhaust system for this or any other car.
I have my Fuel Injected Toronado. Life is good! 8-)
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