Since I will be putting TB coated headers and a 2.5" dual exhaust on the Scamp (with an X-style cross over). One thing I really hate are chintzy tips. You know the ones- shine doesn't last for more than a year, year-and-a-half, chrome flakes off and then rust. My plan for the Scamp is a built-right, built-on-a-reasonable budget cruiser. Thus, super expensive (yet very nice) tips are out of the question. Perusing the junkyard awhile back I found myself struck with Volvos. S70's to be exact. Seems they came with a 2.5" stainless steel exhaust system with a nice tip. A minute with a Sawzall and you can liberate them from their impending doom. And hey, at $4-5 a piece, bargain city!
You will have to put some effort into cleaning them. The four that I got all had 200+K on the odometers. But once you are done, you have some very stout stainless steel tips for very little cash. One caveat- I go for the '98 & '99's- they have an Accu-Seal band that is spot welded onto the adapter/slip-on section on the forward section of the tip. Mid-'99/00 they went to a nut welded on w/a bolt going up onto the exhaust pipe. Still nice, just my preference to get the full band
You will have to put some effort into cleaning them. The four that I got all had 200+K on the odometers. But once you are done, you have some very stout stainless steel tips for very little cash. One caveat- I go for the '98 & '99's- they have an Accu-Seal band that is spot welded onto the adapter/slip-on section on the forward section of the tip. Mid-'99/00 they went to a nut welded on w/a bolt going up onto the exhaust pipe. Still nice, just my preference to get the full band
rayer:
. So he went out & bought a Duster so the tips would fit!. :tard: Now he can use his Xbox in his Volvo... :banghead:
