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Old 02-28-2009, 05:55 PM
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well i painted my exhaust about a year ago, which was absolutely the worst idea i have ever had. i used black bar-b-que paint and it looked great for like a month. it started peeling and turned into an eye sore pretty quickly.

so, i polished the muffler and tailpipes. now, its nowhere near as good as some other setups, and it was an absolute pain in the *** (i even had to get a metal flake taken out of my eye), but i think it looks 10000x better than before...

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and the final product


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HUGE improvement! What gave you the idea to paint it in the first place? It looks great polished like that.
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Fantastic job! That look indefinitely better!
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Originally Posted by greg_74
HUGE improvement! What gave you the idea to paint it in the first place? It looks great polished like that.
I kind of had a black theme going on with my car, so i thought a black exhaust would go well with it, and it did for like a month. NEVER again
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corsa cb? what procedure did u use?
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thats why i love my magnaflow i just wipe it down and it always looks great

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yeah, its a corsa catback with premium tips. ive already gotten a couple pms asking about how i did it. i used this thread over at svt performance: http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...ust-101-a.html
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wow....looks great.

love the plate too lol.
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Originally Posted by wowsers
yeah, its a corsa catback with premium tips. ive already gotten a couple pms asking about how i did it. i used this thread over at svt performance: http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...ust-101-a.html
yeah i posted that in a thread here a lil while ago. good to hear people are using it.

02gtp4now-is that how the magnaflow comes out the box?
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Originally Posted by strikeone
wow....looks great.

love the plate too lol.
haha thanks. nobody ever knows what it means though
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Originally Posted by Striker
yeah i posted that in a thread here a lil while ago. good to hear people are using it.

02gtp4now-is that how the magnaflow comes out the box?
I'll be using that writeup when my car comes out in the spring.

And yeah, the Magnaflow looks like that all the time
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You obvoisly polished it with it still on the car right? Did you just jack up the back?
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my plan is to polish the kit when before i even install it on the car. just torn between a few. slp lm2, magnaflow, corsa.....
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Originally Posted by TORCHD 02 TA
You obvoisly polished it with it still on the car right? Did you just jack up the back?
no i took it off the car to polish it. theres no way i could lay under the carfor as long as it took me to do it. it prolly took around 20 hours to get it done, but i have ocd issues when it comes to my car.
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does look great, blood sweat, n tears were worth it
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That looks great
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Originally Posted by wowsers
no i took it off the car to polish it. theres no way i could lay under the carfor as long as it took me to do it. it prolly took around 20 hours to get it done, but i have ocd issues when it comes to my car.
Yeah i will prolly have to drop mine to polish my GMMG
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looks really good, one day ill have to try this after seeing how well it turns out. the tails look great too, just some clear with a little black paint to tint them?
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actually theyre a smoked film that a bought off of ebay. i didnt paint them because i wanted to see if i liked it first. ill eventually paint the tails, 3rd brake light, and side markers so they match.
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very nice


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