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I put my new stainless exhaust tips on. I bought them off of eBay. They are Z28 style tips, except the inlet is in the center of the tip, rather than offset like real Z28 tips are. The exhaust shop (Midas) did PERFECT work, just the way I wanted it. Pefectly symetric, perfectly even...just perfect. One problem, though: With the way the tips are shaped, it changes sound in a weird way. At certain RPMs, it sounds like there is a hollow "humm", and on few occasions (accelerating directly after starting the car, happens only THAT one time), a sharp buzz. I don't know why Oh well, I'll take these good looking stainless tips with that sound problem over the other chrome crap I had on before

I also painted my headlight brackets white to match the color of my body. They were originally black. You can't see it in the pics (or even in person until you look very closely), but I used a grit too rough for sanding the plastic during prepping, and now you can see some sandpaper marks through the paint. In one pic, you can see some spots; that's just dirt I also painted the black bracket that holds the actual headlight in place.

Now for the bad Driving along, pulling into a parking lot, I bent my passenger side BMR Boxed SFC. The lot was gravel, and I ran over a really old, dead tree stump (decayed to gray like the gravel) that I didn't see. No, my car is not lowered. What happened was I felt the wheel go over it, then I heard WHAM and felt the whole car shake. The boxed tubing hit the stump, and bent the plate that welds to the car (Just goes to show you how boxed tubing is strong). I pooed myself, thinking the whole chassis was screwed up. Its not, the doors swing fine, windows role up and seal fine, and so do the T-tops, trunk, hold, body lines, etc. Still handles fine as well...except now they are bent, so if I choose to sell the SFCs, I will have to sell them for a dirt cheap price because of this

Oh, and now you can see my Trans Am tailights I have as well in the pics.

My brother doesn't like the exhaust tips, but oh well...everyone has dual dual outlets.

 

Nice choice on tips - I really like those on Firebirds/TA's.
The little things like the headlight mounting stuff is the kind of thing GM should have done to make stuff a little nicer for our cars - kind of like they do for the Vette's, but I guess that leaves us with something to do, right?

That does really suck on your SFC though man.

The bird is lookin' good.

 

Sweet job... I really dig the tips too. The rear ends of the Firebirds/Trans Am's seem to flow well with the rectangular shaped tips. I'm transferring the exhaust from my TA to the Camaro in a couple of weeks after I have my ground effects installed... IMO single or double round tips look nice on the Camaro's but thats just me

I'd never thought about painting the brackets around the headlights before hrmmmm that'll be another project for me to work on over the summer.

Good job!

 

Yeah, I really like those tips because[list=a][*]They are different from the usual tips you see, especially on Firebirds[*]the large size fills out the bumper cutouts nicely[/list=a]That was the thing that bothered me about single outlet tips...they looked weird not filling up the space. Before, it was either dual dual, or these, and I chose these

If I had to do it again, I think I would've spent a bit more $$$ and have gone with the polished Z28 tips (these are "lookalike" Z28 tips) from fasttoys. Reason? The center outlet meant that the pipe has to be very, VERY close to the spare tire well on the passenger side. With offset inlets, I would've have had to worry about it.

That sound is still there...kind of hard to describe it. I think one day I will try and drill a small hole on the bottom of the tip to let the sound waves "escape".

Thanks for the opinions guys!

 

Nice look man.

I painted the bezels on my old 2000 V6 silver to match the body color. Makes a world of difference, and hardly anyone does it. Props man!

 

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