catsmasher

Dude, that Z06 sounds bada$$! The Porche...ehhh, not so much...

Z0777

Heres some examples of the supplies you'll need....

http://cgi.ebay.com/Titanium-TIG-Wel...3A1%7C294%3A50

http://cgi.ebay.com/TITANIUM-TUBE-1-...3286.m20.l1116

Once you have the proper supplies, its up to you to call every decent welder in your town till somebody will do it....or maybe you'll get lucky and find a guy who has welded titanium before...like i did

Milan

Nice Viper!!

PA Z06

GeorgeZNJ

Nando, that sounds badass. Whats your track schedule look like this year? Thunderbolt this weekend

PA Z06

I just started to shore up my plans George, Im thinking NJMP in July with NCM, VIR and a couple trips to Summit and Maybe one or two trips to Pocono. I will keep you posted.

GeorgeZNJ

Novat_99

Sent you a pm also

Hi555

From what I've reasearched this is a nice mod but, in my experience, it wasn't exactly inexpensive--the welding that is. I purchased the materials (Ti 1.687 OD x .045 tubing) did all the fabrication of the bypass tubes, cut the holes in my stock pipes and prepped everything. Dropped it all off at the welders, called them this morning and the damages are $170.00 !! I know welding titanium is supposedly an 'art' but I thought this was a little expensive considering all they used was a few rods and some argon gas. Whatever.
I haven't picked the exhaust up yet but if it turned out well and its as good a mod as everyone (thats done it) says it is then I should be happy. I guess, compared to an aftermarket system, this should be a deal since I've got about $ 200.00 total in it. We'll see.

speedyhawk101

Post some pics of the final product if you can please.

I'm lucky, We have a weld shop where I work and our guys are all certified aerospace welders. Titanium when welded properly is a purdy weld.

PA Z06

I will try to find the picture I took of the 2inch pipe.

Hi555

Here are a few links to pics of the process which are really no different than any other of the bypass pics I've seen. I wouldn't say these are pretty welds but they will do.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/IMG_6149.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...t/IMG_6159.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ststuff014.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ststuff015.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ststuff034.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ststuff016.jpg

The exhaust sounds much better at idle (its crisper, a little louder and you can hear a bit of the stock cams lope) and its wicked at WOT. Big improvement and well worth the trouble and cost IMO

PA Z06

Good stuff, any sound clips

Hi555

When I get a chance I'll try and post some but the clips do not really give a true representation of the sound. You can Youtube "Titanium bypass mod" and get some also.

Robls6

Ti actually welds pretty nice. Those are just not good examples of how it's done. No offense

speedyhawk101

TI when welded properly is IMO some of the best looking weld I've seen.

Hi555

If you want to see "proper" Ti welds just look at the stock exhaust system. I was told that its very difficult to weld because you need to keep all contact points free of any contaminants and completely purged with Argon.

Jnape

Hense the eirlier post "roman candle welding" Impurities flyin..... On an exhaust mod like this, no harm and who is looking under their anyway.

speedyhawk101

You are correct.

Frans96ss

Sounds good Nando