Hi,

You know the bluey burnt tinge on titanium mufflers? Is it possible to make any other metals this colour or similar or does it have to be REAL titanium?

Cheers

 

I have heard of certain places being able to it with coating not too muhc more info then that though

 

Yeah just wondering if any of those cheapass "titanium" tip mufflers from ebay are actually titanium.

 

For iron, but the temperatures are similar for steel and Ti.

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Does this look titanium?

 

Not especially hard to tell looks more like polished stainless

 

Oops im just talking about the tip. You see the blue tinge? I thought you cant do that to stainless.

 

Yeah as far as i know you can't but you also cannot weld Ti to Stainless either

 

looks like a stainless muffler and somebody took a torch and heated it up.

 

Cool thank. I guess its "titanium tip style"

 

i think you should be able to torch up stainless for the look. ever look at a polished stainless manifold or a stainless dc header?

 

Yeah, just use some WD-40 and then come heat, that combo should do it.

 

I must admit, the bluing on SS and titanium does look cool as hell.

 

you can definately get that color from stainless with a torch. best to use a small butane torch like the ones used for brazing from home depot.

 

So what... spray WD40 on it and just torch it up with a small butane torch? Im assuming you can do this to 304 and 306 stainless steel?

Just another question, will the colour eventually come off or like change to a crap colour? Then would I just repeat the process again?

 

havent tried it with wd40! i just used the torch.

 

Just send me $60 and I will send you a burnt tip ss muffler.

 

you can scotch weld it

 

my titanium exhaust was a pretty blueish purple.. but it slowldy faded to a grey/blue after a while..

 

my apexi full catback exhaust now has a gold tint on the tip. tried to get it off but its premenetly on there. looks pretty cool.

 

a couple years ago i had an X-Tec stainless muffler on my hatch.i used a torch to turn the whole can a goldish color,with a blued tip.pretty easy;i was using a full-blown cutting torch,just have to be careful with how much heat you apply.
Chris

 

So here is a question:

How do you attach a full Ti muffler to stainless tubing? T-Bolt clamp?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jisu009 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So here is a question:

How do you attach a full Ti muffler to stainless tubing? T-Bolt clamp? </TD></TR></TABLE>
all the systems i've seen with some kind of steel midpipe and ti muffler have the muffler slip fit on the midpipe with a clamp securing it.
Chris

 

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all the systems i've seen with some kind of steel midpipe and ti muffler have the muffler slip fit on the midpipe with a clamp securing it.
Chris</TD></TR></TABLE>

Do you "slit" the slip fit? or just clamp it down tight as a virgin in a traffic jam?

 

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Do you "slit" the slip fit? or just clamp it down tight as a virgin in a traffic jam?</TD></TR></TABLE>
all i've seen have slits on the slip-fit section.
Chris