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That's it. Purely cosmetic. Apparently to accomplish this you have to buy a $1500+ exhaust system, but I don't want to go there. So I was presuming I'd have to remove the back end of the exhaust myself (or get a local shop to do it) and bring that to a powder coating place and have them powder coat the tips (they're welded on) to match the Black Flash paint on other parts of the car. Then I'd have it bolted back together.
Is that right? Wrong? Am I missing something? How hard is it to drop the exhaust? Can the car even be driven a coupe of miles (say from the shop to my house) after those parts are removed, or might that damage something?
I haven't priced this powder coat job, I can't say if it's $100 or $1000, so that will be a factor. And I don't trust any spray paint, no matter how automotive or heat resistant it claims to be, so I thought powder coating would work. Or does that get crappy looking on the exhaust tips over time as well?
^^^ Those Corsa tips won't work with his NPP exhaust system.
If it were me, I would purchase some high temp black paint in a rattle can and spray them myself. It's not hard to do and would be fairly easy to remove if you wanted to go back to stock. Sure, you might have to touch them up every once in a while, but were not talking a whole lot of money or time to do so. The majority of the exhaust tips are concealed and the shape of the tips would be pretty forgiving in that a novice would still get good results.
Heck, it looks like you could even PlastiDip them based on this video that I found:
I just thought powder coat might be a more permanent solution that would not need re-painting, but thanks for the suggestions, maybe it is something I can work out with my local body shop.
Did mine a while back (Plasti dip) really works well you can shoot it in Matte or gloss (Glossifier) . Just mask off the rest. I also shot under neath, if it was visible .....it is not black and totally reversable !!!
Originally Posted by lakemg
^^^ Those Corsa tips won't work with his NPP exhaust system.
If it were me, I would purchase some high temp black paint in a rattle can and spray them myself. It's not hard to do and would be fairly easy to remove if you wanted to go back to stock. Sure, you might have to touch them up every once in a while, but were not talking a whole lot of money or time to do so. The majority of the exhaust tips are concealed and the shape of the tips would be pretty forgiving in that a novice would still get good results.
That's it. Purely cosmetic. Apparently to accomplish this you have to buy a $1500+ exhaust system, but I don't want to go there. So I was presuming I'd have to remove the back end of the exhaust myself (or get a local shop to do it) and bring that to a powder coating place and have them powder coat the tips (they're welded on) to match the Black Flash paint on other parts of the car. Then I'd have it bolted back together.
Is that right? Wrong? Am I missing something? How hard is it to drop the exhaust? Can the car even be driven a coupe of miles (say from the shop to my house) after those parts are removed, or might that damage something?
I haven't priced this powder coat job, I can't say if it's $100 or $1000, so that will be a factor. And I don't trust any spray paint, no matter how automotive or heat resistant it claims to be, so I thought powder coating would work. Or does that get crappy looking on the exhaust tips over time as well?
Local shop quoted me $200 to powder coat my Z06 tips black. It was $100 until they found out that the tips couldn't be removed from the cat-back exhaust.
So it looks like my only option is to remove the rear bumper, pull the exhaust and take them to the shop. My understanding is that the high-temp paint doesn't last forever and many people are disappointed.
If you're going to have the bumper off anyways...I'd have a powdercoater do it.
I searched YOUTUBE and found plenty of people using high temp paint and it will look good for about 6 months before it starts to dull and you need to reapply.
Drive the car with the exhaust in track mode that will get the outer tips black, then switch to stealth mode and that will get the inner tips black. Then do not clean them.
Did mine a while back (Plasti dip) really works well you can shoot it in Matte or gloss (Glossifier) . Just mask off the rest. I also shot under neath, if it was visible .....it is not black and totally reversable !!!
can you take a picture of your exhaust tips looking dead straight at ground level...like taking a cell phone pic 6 inches off the ground.
Would like to see if you were able to get the "faces" of the mufflers black as well.
Drive the car with the exhaust in track mode that will get the outer tips black, then switch to stealth mode and that will get the inner tips black. Then do not clean them.
02-18-2017, 10:12 AM
All I want is black exhaust tips
Tape it off, and get 'er done. 
