[Bulti]

Jaap you just made mine look like an old tin can. Thanks a lot, now I can start polishing for hours on end ;-)

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[ds968]

[quote name='Bulti' timestamp='1396911172' post='156654']Jaap you just made mine look like an old tin can. Thanks a lot, now I can start polishing for hours on end ;-)[/quote]



And I'm guessing you can't blame the weather in Belgium being drastically different than in the Netherlands and causing your polish to fade or tarnish much faster :-) :-)

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[Bulti]

Damn it Dan, you've just exposed my lazy nature... ;-)

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[jaap]

[quote name='Bulti' timestamp='1396911172' post='156654']

Jaap you just made mine look like an old tin can. Thanks a lot, now I can start polishing for hours on end ;-)

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You're welcome <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> . To be honest this ss tip is very easy to maintain. I think I did the polishing more than 10 years ago and it only requires a regular car wash to keep it looking shiny.

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[Ernie]

I just pulled mine off and did it today. I used some "GOOF OFF" and a 3M green scouring pad. About 5 minutes and not a whole lot of elbow grease involved. Washed it off and polished it with some "MOTHERS" mag and aluminum polish. Nice and shiney! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[wildcat]

See what you started? Now everyone is polishing up their tail pipe tips! Its contagious! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/cool.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[ds968]

What, and flash is letting all the " polishing your tip " euphemisms just slide here , without any comic relief ?!

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[wildcat]

Spring is in the air! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/glare.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[Rap]

DS you mean polishing ones pipes!

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[ds968]

Presuming this is a five minute job without the need to lift the car ? As in - just one or two bolts, easily accessible from underneath which can be loosened with a sinle wrench, slide old tip off, slide new tip on, tighten the bolt(s) back and.. all done ?

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[Ernie]

Yes. 13mm socket and 13mm wrench. Spray the bolt with some penetrant if it's "frozen" and let it sit for a minute. Loosen it all the way.The tip should pop off. Then follow the proceedure I described. It may actually take more like 10 minutes start to finish. Have at it!

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[ds968]

cool, thx.

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[ds968]

[quote name='flash' timestamp='1396892947' post='156644']it is a really odd phenomenon that i have noticed. not sure what's going on there, as the length should be reasonably fixed. material expansion should be minimal. there are no soft couplings at play either. nonetheless, i have noticed it too.

another "eyes playing tricks on you" oddity is how far it looks like it's sticking out, dependent on your angle. looking straight down, it's very easy for the smallest protrusion to look larger, due to the angle of the bumper cover

crazy how much time and energy we spend on something as silly as an exhaust tip.[/quote]



Funny you should say this; now I'm paying attention to every car's friggin' muffler tip to see how it's positioned, how much it sticks out, etc. LOL. So here's the odd thing I saw today in our company's parking lot : a dual exhaust tip Lexus IS ( don't recall the number - 350 maybe ) with one tip looking as if it was sticking out just a bit more than the other. So I thought it's clearly the angle from which I'm viewing it , so I got right behind the car where I estimated was dead center, less than 3 ft away, and one still looked a bit different from the other. Optical illusion I said to myself. But being the OCD guy that I am, I went up to my office got two rulers, placed one vertically against the rear body and the other on the tip(s) and the. measured both tips length from the body. There was no optical illusion, one tip was out about a 1/8 " more than the other. That was a surprise ! ( and the bigger surprise is that I could see a difference as negligible as 1/8 " with the naked eye ) .

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[Rap]

Did anyone see you doing this? Do you straighten pictures? I've often wondered if people get more compulsive as they get older. Needless to say this thought was prompted by my own behavior. Thanks for the chuckle. It's nice to know one is not alone! Lol

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[ds968]

Lol, I was wondering if someone saw me messing around with somebody else's car, what they must have been thinking ..but I would have and a good excuse.. OCD, and old age ..

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[ds968]

Bummer ! Removed the old tip, tried to put tne new one on and .. no go ! The diameter of the neck opening on the new tip is smaller than the old and will simply not fit over tne muffler pipe. We're only talking about a few millimeters but too solid where there is no way , no how it could be enlarged sufficiently to make it fit, even if I had the muffler pipe mouth also pounded in all around . So that means tne change in the tip from 93 to 94 is not simply just that, Porsche also had to change the size of tne muffler pipe , which makes no sense whatsoever from the standpoint of cost - surely that had to cost more than whatever they saved on replacing the old tip with a cheaper one. I'm totally puzzled. Assumed this would be a perfect and easy switch. WTF ?! I know these were the last of the " hand -made " Porsches , but did not think they had blacksmiths pounding out muffler pipes and tips one by one at the factory ...



But now I'm on a mission, must find a solution ; my mechanic is a wiz with a lot of things so he might use a coupler pipe to fit inside both ends and if the bands by themselves won't secure the whole assembly, spot welding it in place will..

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[ds968]

In the meantime I repositioned the old one to stick out just a little and it's also more centered ( as opposed to being as close to the upper arc as it was before ) . Just hoping it caught enough of tne muffler pipe to hold under that band and not slip out while in motion, going ovr bumps, etc. It feels solid when I pull, push , try to twist, and so forth do hopefully it's good until I get around to replacing it.

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d'oh, last time i try to do something without having sufficeint space and visibility . there is a coupling ring that connects the tip pipe to the muffler pipe and when i removed the old tip the ring stayed firmly in the muffler pipe ( just could not see it ) so no wonder the new tip butted up agianst it, it also had that ring in it. anyway, all in now, looks much better IMO, see pic . btw, the rolled tip is simply an overlay piece which slides on top of the later models tip, held in place by a couple of spot welds.

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[wildcat]

Definitely an improvement but it still looks short to me...

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[flash]

that shot makes it look way too long - it should barely stick out. if they made the opening a bit smaller, we could have had one that is nice and flush.

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