Many of you have polished or chromed the existing exhaust tip. Personally, I like the look of the brushed stainless and bought a license frame that matches rather closely. Using Never-Dull, as described in someone elses post, worked great but something was still bothering me. After looking at other cars, I determined that the interior of the pipe looked odd. It was the fact that most cars' tips are connected to a pipe with a deep cavity which does not bring attention to the inside. I decided to paint the interior black, with high temp paint. It turned out rather well, IMHO.
1. Remove exhaust tip as previously described by others.
2. Carefully mask all surfaces not to be painted. Be sure to mask the 1/4'' lip inside of the tip that clearly should not be painted.
3. Use high-temp flat black paint that can be purchased at any auto parts store. Be sure to follow the directions on the can as this type of paint has a curing process. Each brand may be different so I will not state my directions.
4. Complete. Sorry about the dirty car, it rained yesterday./fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/MWPX/sad_smile.gif
I don't like the interior of the tip either. I think it's obvious that there is only a single pipe that leads to a dual tip. It's very obvious when you are following the car or parked at a traffic light. Does the black paint conceal this any?
Just what the Doctor ordered.
This is exactly what I was thinking of (even though I don't yet have my Cayman yet). The Cayman is a gorgeous automobile except for that one little detail. The exhaust finishers look great from afar but up close it becomes clear that a single pipe feeds it. The result is too similar to those add-on coffee can mufflers people attach to their one-inch pipe coming from a 1.6L 4-banger. The irony is that there is indeed a fully dual exhaust system upstream! This is a good solution to the problem Artman.
The single wide finisher of the base Cayman/Boxster look good b/c they maintain the continuity of the feeder pipe w/o trying to affect a difference. 'Reminds me of a Bugatti in a way.
I've had my tippainted black inside for a month or so. Looks great!
I also high temp black painted the muffler cans, so itlooks as ifthe exhaust disappears (my car is basalt black) except for the tip. I highly polished the brushed finish on the tip with Mother's,followed bytwo layers of Zoop Seal covered with rejex. It never discolors and wipes clean with a wet cloth.
I also have a gold tip from Ralph Boothe that I swap on and off for a 'different type' of look. Any tip looks better when you paint the mufflers black -- they look like multicolored crap stock from behind the car.
I've noticed that the inside of my pipes now has a whitish residue that continues to coat the insides. I wiped it out last week thinking it was just leftover from the track, but there is some new whitish residue there too. If I painted the inside black like this I would only be showing off the white residue more. Oh well, great idea and kudos for doing it, just wouldn't work for me I'm afraid. Anyone have an idea of what the white residue might be?
Haha! I read 'white' and 'residue' and my mind went far back to my old college days! Haha! Could the white residue be the result of the cat failure you mentioned in your other thread?
I'm guessing it's a precipatate from the Carbon Monoxide being converted to sulfer dioxide and a little oxide leaving the sulfer dioxide as it evaporates. My SWAG
John
