Bolt on exhaust tips or no?

[B1tchin'-Buick]

Whatever you do make SURE they are not going to come off and possibly screw the person behind you....

Last summer out on my truck route I watched one bounce of some kids car that was next to me. It bounced up under the ladies car that was behind him. Must have hit her hose or radiator just right cause when we got to the light she was loosing fluid and steaming under the car. The light turned green too quick and I being in my work truck couldn't catch her. The steam was coming from under the car and it was a hot summer day so hopefully she caught it before she cooked her engine...

Long story short >> Make sure it's not going to come off.......

<Mike>

 

[tc1959]

Tack welded on, Chrome still look good after5 years.

 

[joesregalproject]

I've always liked them to dress up a car a little bit. I will probably get a set of them once I get my exhaust redone. As its been mentioned before, it's better to get tight fitting exhaust tips for 2 reasons- they look better, and they are less likely to fall off, which happened to a buddy of mine's car. He showed up to the car cruise with one exhaust tip, I was like ?

 

[454muscle]

DON'T get the bolt on tips. They look tacky as one person already said. I've seen nicely done up cars and then as soon as you see the screw/bolt holding the tip on... the mood just changes. Might as well get a bunch of cheap bumper stickers and put em all over you car while you're at it! Or just get stainless steel ones and weld them on, or get your local muffler shop to weld them on for you.

 

[joesregalproject]

Bolt on tips rust out in 1 season - that goes for the ones @ advanced auto or higher end flowmaster tips either way. Auto-zone I'd bet even less than a year bc I've had bad exp w their parts. The expensive flowmaster tips that went to live in New Mexico on my Cutlass somehow still rusted @ the bolts. That being said, if you have a cheap exhaust kit to begin w/, buying the square-ended bolt on tip / or the chevy bow-tie and installing it @ an angle or backwards can produce a desirable exhaust note & if you use large bolts too then the exhaust will have a whistling noise in it. The whistling noise sounds similar to a turbo/ SC and scares deer away

I've had autozone tips lasts upward of 4 years...

 

[-83MONTESS-]

".....YES on the tips and WELD them on!....."

X2

If I use tips, I try to get the stainless steel ones that are a slip fit over the stock exhaust pipe (not the one size fit's all crap). I then usually just hold them on with a couple of small tack welds, unless I'm using a hanger and clamp where they fit...in that case I usually turn the clamp unside down so you don;t see the hardware.

x2 The tight slip fit ones are nice. Easy to line up where you want and being the tip is supported by the pipe its on it oly takes a few tack welds.

 

[GuysMonteSS]

I'm not 100 % certain,but these tailpipes might have polished stainless tips,# 45909 & 45910;
http://www.walkerexhaust.com/catalog/wa ... log-lookup
Heres how mine look;

Guy