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Old 04-14-2009, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by TwinsPoppa
The stook 4.6/4.8 tips have dual pipes so no biggie about seeing them inside the tips. You can also paint them black which in that link the guy only painted the INSIDE of the Y-pipe not the outside. I think that and will make a difference as well as not leaving so much Y-pipe length (too long).

I would measure your exisitng tips to see if the 4.6/4.8 tips would even slip over them first. Unles you're thinking about ditching them totally. If they just clear the 4.6/4.8 tips then jsut weld them on. Or go to your exhaust guy or whoever is gonna do the work and ask him how much to add a back plate. If it's too much, I'd skip it.

Of course, if all of this is gonna be "too much" then I guess you're gonna just shorten the tips.

As far as the rusting, you can spray some protective coating on it to help out but I doubt its gonna rust in your life-time - but who knows. Don't they makethe dang things in SS?

Good luck!

ya they wont fit over my current tips.

as for rusting the one in the link wasn't SS but i guess i could find some. i think im going to end up following that link, but i was wondering if a bezel would hold it on sturdier. because if i go with whats in the link i think they just get 'tacked' on. supposedly it will still be secure but i don't know..

Anyone else out there who put these tips on single piped exhausts?
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