PeterM

Okay, I'd made a mistake when I went for the polished tips in lieu of the Carbon Fiber tips. The polished titanium begins to look ratty pretty quickly, and polishing is somewhat futile; one can see the freshly polished tips turn funky within minutes of starting the car. Yes, it's the nature of titanium to discolor, but there is another reason for the perpetual dirty coating, which I'll touch on in a minute...

I simply refused to spend $1400.00 for another set of tips, so, after months of racking my brain, I finally struck on the mother of all solutions.









I found an awesome powder coating guy in Pearl River who really knows his stuff. He also discovered while drying the pipes with air pressure that a blast of dirt would always spray out from the rear seam of the tips (see picture below). It seems the tips may be hollow with some type of insulation between the rolled titanium?

In any case, this weird phenomena is now a non issue with the powder coating, as it fully sealed the seams on each tip.




I'm really delighted with the results, and the car looks mean as hell.

swosanity

Witt748

Hey at least you admit you made a mistake, and you found a great way to solve that problem. I think that looks great . If you don't mind could you take some pics from further back? I would like to see what they look like from a distance.

I love my akrapovic, and I can't imagine having smaller tips anymore... and that gives me a reason to shamelessly post a picture of my car with carbon tips. It's so we can compare carbon vs powder coating... yesssss, that's it

FAsnakes

Looks great..

PeterM

Ha, Ha, yes, that's a great reason; your car looks killer!

I'll take it outside for a picture as soon as this freaking rain stops.