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Old Aug 25, 2022 | 02:34 AM
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Hello again, messed up the car a bit today, bapped the exhaust.. The car was parked on a grass/gravel type of surface and the road was right behind it, I reversed quick (~5 mph) and hit the left exhaust tip on the side of the road

the lower tube that connects to the tip basically went in and crushed the 90 that goes up into the main straight pipe, this also caused the bar holding the tips up to get bent

The exhaust system isn't stock , titanium Corsa straight pipe , people don't want to work with titanium, that's the problem.

But this seems too easy to fix to get a whole new system. No damage at all above the 90, and the system is multi piece so that part comes out. Looked at this with my mechanic, he recommends making a new straight and 90 and installing them on there.

what do y'all think?




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Old Aug 25, 2022 | 02:23 PM
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Found a dude who's willing to make and install these titanium parts, but he is taxing a bit for sure, 160/hr for 3.5 hrs + cost of materials (approx $200 I think) around $750 total.

Is there a better way to go about this? New kit is $2000 and it will be inferior to the one I got on here.

These tubes are 2.5" TI. Also thought about getting these pipes in a different metal, since the temp near the tips never will get hot enough to need titanium



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