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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 03:10 PM
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hi guys looking to put in my cme tips with 4 inch x pipe tomorrow but i am not painting my car till nov and thats when i will be putting on the valance!! how does the car look with the cme tips and no valance?? does it look bad, i think its better than putting in the black unpainted valance on a navy blue ss? what do you think any one have any pics?
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 04:33 PM
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i do have a pic but on my other pc..theres a thread name " what color is my car " the guy has a cme tips with no valance. if i were you id paint it body color.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by cancam99ss
hi guys looking to put in my cme tips with 4 inch x pipe tomorrow but i am not painting my car till nov and thats when i will be putting on the valance!! how does the car look with the cme tips and no valance?? does it look bad, i think its better than putting in the black unpainted valance on a navy blue ss? what do you think any one have any pics?
seen it, it looks horribly unfinished, especially to be leaving it like that for 3 months. it would look way better to just either do a quick rattle can job on the cme (either black or NBM), or just wait till you can do it all at once.

a paint shop would probably do just the CME for around 2-300

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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 05:10 PM
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^ what they said cause you can see all that bent pipe
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 05:25 PM
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4in X pipe?

Holyshit.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 05:31 PM
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http://www.ls1.com/forums/showthread...=124345&page=4

About half way down that page.
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 11:06 PM
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If your car is nbm it cant look as bad with the unpainted valance than it will with no valance and just cme tips. Theres a thread somewhere on here of someone with a nbm camaro with the black unpainted valence and cme tips and it doesnt look bad considering its a temporary thing. I know ill probably just slap on the unpainted cme valence on my car when i get it along with my cme tips considering the car needs new paint anyways and I wont have the money any time soon for paint plus theres other priorities for the car before paint.

EDIT: I found these with an unpainted valence but its not the one I was speaking of:

http://www.camaroz28.com/forums/showthread.php?t=281772

https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...xhaust-15.html

Hope that gives you an idea!

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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 03:46 PM
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Those guys were swinging on his nuts and his car looks like COMPLETE ****.
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The black valence isnt going to stand out very much on Navy Blue. I would just get the valence and exhaust installed now and worry about painting it later.

But if you really dont want to put the valence on untill you get it painted, then i would get the exhaust installed. Knock something out of the way, instead of trying to install everything all at once. I personally think it takes alot longer when you try and install everything all at once then if you take it piece by piece. You still see the 90% bends hanging low w/ the valence on most CME setups anyways, so i dont see the problem just doing your system now and valence later but like i said, black dont stand out much on navy blue. So personally i would install valence and get exhaust done. Just my opinion though....
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by rob69zombie
Those guys were swinging on his nuts and his car looks like COMPLETE ****.
why judge a work in progress that's far from complete...
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 08:01 PM
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I didn't mean to offend; it just looks like **** to me.
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by rob69zombie
Those guys were swinging on his nuts and his car looks like COMPLETE ****.
hah true

his car looked like ***
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by rob69zombie
I didn't mean to offend; it just looks like **** to me.
no offense takin, its not my car. i'm just saying i wouldn't expect a half finished car to look good.
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 10:19 AM
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^ I got ya', lol. I agree.
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