Exhaust tips

[Les Huckins <jhuckins@xxxx>]

My '82 has these great 2 1/2" (OD) slanted exhaust tips that I'm used
to, they look great, I think they're perfect for the car. Along comes
my '83 with those pathetic little 1 3/4" (OD) round pipes. Ugh! Went
looking for tips on the net after first checking out JC Whitney. Some
40 net pages later still couldn't find what I was looking for. Thanks
to Bruce Benson I took another look at JC Whitney. They have these
great looking highly polished 2 1/2" OD SS slanted tips for $13.95
each. Only Problem, ID is about 2". OK, I can Mickey mouse something.
(Part # 47TS2884P). Installed them today, look pretty good for a first
effort but I'm not quite happy with them. What I did was make 4 slots
in the back with a hack saw, then pounded in two opposite sides slightly
so that the other two sides would sort of overlap and clamp on the small
pipe. Also from JC Whitney I ordered 2-SS 2" clamps (83TS0713Y).
Pounded the ends down to where the clamps would fit and clamped them in
place. Almost happy with them but think I'll take them off again and
use some exhaust pipe reducers and larger clamps so that there isn't
such a difference between ID and OD.

I heartily recommend these tips but not necessarily my installation
methods. The job looks pretty good though, if I do make it better I'll
let you in on it.