np20412

Guys my exhaust tip is slightly deformed from its original circle. I gather that I scraped that sucker coming out of the Lexus dealer a while ago, and now its circular around the top and sides but at the bottom its been somewhat flattened. Is there any simple way for me to reshape it back to a circle? If not a DIY type thing, will an exhaust/muffler (Meineke?) shop be able to reshape it at a decent price (if so, what price?) Thanks for the advice in advance!

Guitarman

You could do it IF you had a cone shaped piece of metal. You need something that starts out smaller in diameter than the INSIDE of the pipe, that will fit in it despite the deformation, then hit it with a mallet as the larger part of the cone spreads the pipe out to a circle.

Not hard to do, but whether or not you have a metal cone shaped object lying around the house that will suffice is the question.

Otherwise, take it to a muffler shop, shouldn't cost you much at all to have them fix it.

np20412

Thanks, Guitarman comes through again! I wasn't sure if using a mallet on that sucker would damage the exhaust itself or not, so I didn't try.

Chances are I don't have anything cone shaped at 3.5" to fit inside that sucker, so I will stop by at a muffler shop later on today on my way home. Thanks.

aliga

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i have exhaust tips if you want, 20 for the pair, or 10 for one. silver.

np20412

Well these tips are custom, since they go with my not stock exhaust.

aliga

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sorry, i thought you had stock.

np20412

Nobody around my area, even the exhaust shops, will do it. Some say the tips are too big, some say they will "break" the exhaust if they tried. I am not even dealing with people who think they will "break" it. I talked to my trusted body shop guy, he says he can give it a shot but it won't be a perfect circle again, and it may not even work. So I was thinking, since I got lowered, it's probably going to happen again anyway, might as well live with it. Not like I drive a show car around anyway. I'm gonna try a large monkey wrench/pliers later today, after that I will give up. My guess with the pliers is tho that it will only bend exactly where the pliers are placed, so this probably won't work.

Guitarman

I agree that the pliers is a bad idea, unless of course you're going to buy a new tip anyway, then you don't have much to lose. But if you want to save that tip, I'd keep searching for a shop that's done it before. They're out there.

Jewcano

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If its not chromed? Could you torch it, wait for it to heat up, bend it back then spray it?

np20412

It's not chrome, its stainless steel. Very hard to bend, I don't know if I could make it hot enough to bend back.

np20412

So i took a BIG monkey wrench, one that I use to tighten and loosen the plumbing joints on my pool pipes, and went to it. First I grabbed the tip with the wrench and tried to bend it, that didn't work, the only thing it did was move the entire exhaust in its place. So then I thought, let me stick the whole thing inside the tip, and OPEN it up while its inside, thereby spreading the tip....


WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!!! (except for the 1 little teeny scratch that is now there inside the exhaust tip, I don't care, who's looking in my exhaust tips anyway) The damn tip is almost back to a circle. I don't expect it to get fully back, but this is 100x better than it was. It used to be looking like this (_), but now it looks like: