It really only took 3 cuts to get it to fit to the point of getting into the chassis. But, to fit it so it wraps around the shock tower and down into the silencer was many a cut and weld. Could probably do a real nice looking one after learning with the original. You can tell though at the back end of the pipe I was tired and wanted it to be over! Some extra weld, sloppy, lack of grinding... it fit, paint it and mount it I'm DONE, let me ride it!
If you look at the first pic that was only up to the point of it fitting. Notice the end of the pipe is really high. That's when I decided to rotate that down to go into a can type silencer and wanted it to fit nice and take up very little room. I did this to fit an oil caddy in there nicely. Plus I liked the look of an old set of AAEN pipes I had where they went straight into a silencer like that.