Exhaust Tips
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2001
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From: Vancouver BC
Exhaust Tips
have any of you put tips on your mufflers? if so please post a picture and i am trying to see what style i want to install on my car.
so far i'd like to get the chrome tips that are cut at a 45 degree angle at the end but the only problem i have is that my exhaust has these odd ends they are the shape of a hockey rink like a rectangle with a half circle on each side so i can't even slide a round tip over them to see what size i need how will i add the tips? cut the ends on the mufflers off to see what size tips i need then weld them on? or should i not do this and just wait until i need new mufflers and then do this lil appearance mod?
opinions are welcome
thanks
so far i'd like to get the chrome tips that are cut at a 45 degree angle at the end but the only problem i have is that my exhaust has these odd ends they are the shape of a hockey rink like a rectangle with a half circle on each side so i can't even slide a round tip over them to see what size i need how will i add the tips? cut the ends on the mufflers off to see what size tips i need then weld them on? or should i not do this and just wait until i need new mufflers and then do this lil appearance mod?
opinions are welcome
thanks
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 1,159
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From: Sumter, SC
Re: Exhaust Tips (dmalhi1)
I checked into this before. For not much more than the cost of 4 tips and having them welded on, you can buy a performance style muffler with chrome tips on them. By a performance muffler, I don't mean a corsa, borla, etc. Check the Ecklers and similar magazines. You'll find what I"m talking about.
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2001
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From: Arlington TN
Re: Exhaust Tips (Rob90)
Yep -
The Magnaflows look really nice. For the L98 system you get a Y-pipe too, all for around 500 dollars, I think. I didnt go with them for the LT1 because I have heard they had a resonance problem, and I got a little more spending money for Christmas than I expected.
Safety Car
Joined: May 1999
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From: Atlantis
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Re: Exhaust Tips (Rob90)
Anybody know where to get the REAL LT1 style tips.
(The big rectangular ones....the ORIGINAL style LT1 tips)
I'd really like a chrome plated set.
Anybody?
(The big rectangular ones....the ORIGINAL style LT1 tips)
I'd really like a chrome plated set.
Anybody?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 8,183
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From: Santa Maria, CA
Re: Exhaust Tips (VetNutJim)
I recently joined the "Eliminator" club. What I want to do is go to a vette boneyard and find a pair of used LT1 tipped mufflers. Cut-off the tips and weld them on to peices of straight pipe. This is still cheaper than the $150.00 the catalogs are charging for these things.
BTW, I took off Flowmaster Force II system. No real noticeable change in sound tone, just the db's are little louder.
BTW, I took off Flowmaster Force II system. No real noticeable change in sound tone, just the db's are little louder.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2001
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From: Vancouver BC
Re: Exhaust Tips (89 Paul in cal)
heh i'd love to go with muffler elims but i'm sure it'd really bug everyone who lives near me, what with all the noise compared to the stock mufflers.
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