Replacing Exhaust Tailpipe - Questions!!

[964RS_DAB]

I'm also about to fit a chrome oval tail pipe. Porscheshop in Halesowen sell them for ~£100, and charge ~£50 fitting which I imagine equates to an hour's labour

 

[Chrishazle]

Having been slightly bitten by the detailing bug recently, I'm not too happy with the black oval pipe showing at the back of my coupe.
I've seen one post on 968uk where a member just used wet and dry to sand off the paint then metal polish (which I may try as an interim measure) , but I'd like a shiny chrome oval if poss. Found one in Germany - but 175 Euro plus P&P etc is a bit rich!!
It looks as if there's a clamp close to the end of the exhaust so the tip can be removed - am I correct? The bolt etc look well rusty - exhaust is original factory fit, not bad for 15 1/2 years and 59K miles! - so would probably have to be replaced with the tip.
I can't get into my PET (Vista 64 bit strikes again!) to get a diagram of the exhaust - can anyone help?
Anyone know a source of the bits I'd need?

TIA for the help.

 

[Chrishazle]

ORIGINAL: 964RS_DAB I'm also about to fit a chrome oval tail pipe. Porscheshop in Halesowen sell them for ~£100, and charge ~£50 fitting which I imagine equates to an hour's labour

That's a hell of a lot of money for a small length of chromepipe! A few years back I fitted one to my son's MG Midget - it slipped over and clamped on, cost less than £10! I feel wet 'n dry and metal polish coming on!

 

[964RS_DAB]

apparently it's a bit more than a chrome sleeve that slides on and is secured by a screw - I do remember those, I had one on my Sunbeam Lotus in the 80s

 

[Chrishazle]

Design911 have just offered me an "original replacement tail pipe for £95.00 + vat" without answering my question about fitting it. That wet 'n dry is getting more attractive by the minute!

 

[Alpine]

see here [link=http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=479519]http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=479519[/link]

 

[Big Dave]

Chris. You are correct in saying its held in place by a bolt + bracket. The bolt will most likely snap when you try to remove it. But the bracket + small connection sleeve / insert are reusable. You will have to get another bolt from a bolt supplier, best make it a stainless one. I then just polished the tip up with fine wet + dry + autoglym metal polish.. Yes the chrome ones are around £100 unfortunately...[8|][8|] Happy polishing.

 

[Chrishazle]

Thanks Phil / Dave - I'm not prepared to spend that kind of money on a little bit of chrome pipe - will have a word with a friend who is very capable with metal things, and has the toys (lathe, pillar drill etc) to play with them. Quite handy arrangement - my retirement hobby is carpentry and he wants me to make him a table for his BBQ area, payment by "something I want" - I now know what I want in return!! In the past I've made him a couple of battery boxes for his Model T's - one of which ended up housing the "trembler coils" on his 1903 De Dion Bouton 6.5HP (recently sold for new Porsche money - think largest Boeing and add 2 zeros!!) and the other is on the running board of his 1917 2 seater Model T (he also has a 1915 4 seater and a 1927 Austin Heavy 12). Now - can I get this done in time for P&P?? Somehow think not, but may try. I guess when you undo the clamp and remove the tip, the rest of the exhaust stays in place - so is the car safe to drive without the exhaust tip?

 

[Big Dave]

All the clamp does is support the tip. The rest of the exhast stays put. Never tried to drive the car without the tip, but i suppose it would be ok, Just the gasses wont exit out of the back of the car , instead will hit the rear pu...Might melt it though....

 

[thumbhead]

[] Hi, I had the same intention with my 968 the black tail pipe looked really bad, but if you check it out like i did with a magnet you may find that it is actually manufactured from a low grade stainless steel possibly 304...................any how the solution and the result for around £10.00 was to take it to a specialist metal polisher and the tail pipe now has a fully polished finish which looks better than chrome????? sorry i havent got round to taking any photos as yet but trust me it looks the DB'S Try it first before buying

 

[Chrishazle]

ORIGINAL: thumbhead [] Hi, I had the same intention with my 968 the black tail pipe looked really bad, but if you check it out like i did with a magnet you may find that it is actually manufactured from a low grade stainless steel possibly 304...................any how the solution and the result for around £10.00 was to take it to a specialist metal polisher and the tail pipe now has a fully polished finish which looks better than chrome????? sorry i havent got round to taking any photos as yet but trust me it looks the DB'S Try it first before buying

Thanks, that was exactly what was going through my mind. Would love to see a photo of the result.

 

[thumbhead]

Hi, Sorry for the delay in posting the picture but i have been away all week.

 

[thumbhead]

another pic

 

[Chrishazle]

That looks tremendous - sure beats paying about £110 for the chrome variety! Where did you get it done? I'm near Ashford in Kent so hope it's not too far away - although I could always post it to the polisher!

 

[thumbhead]

Hi, I live in Manchester and used the following company, Townhead Chrome Specialist Metal FinishingGreen Lane, HEYWOOD, Lancashire OL10 2JG 01706625622 He is a one man band and does all sorts of chroming and polishing but specializes in mail order for custom cars and bikes etc. He's a bit of a character like but a sound bloke and did a great job of mine and did it very quickly, if you mention to him what it is and that he did mine he will sort you out im sure. Regards,

 

[Chrishazle]

Excellent result at the P&P Saturday - first, the best front engined car on the field was judged to be the red 968CS parked next to mine - there were only 4 968's there, compared to loads of 944's, 924's etc - but one of ours took the front engined trophy! Excellent![][][] Secondly, spotted a chrome slip-over exhaust tip on the Porscheshop stand as they were setting up - they told me it was for a 944 but it looked right - and it is. £35 is a lot better than £100+ or having the car off the road for a few days getting the existing bit polished. It's designed to slip on and grip, but I think I'll drill it (and the exhaust) for a couple of self tappers. Porsche part number is 477253191F and Porscheshop have them in stock - but only had one with them Saturday so I'm lucky we were early birds![][][]

 

[Chrishazle]

Pic 1 of the new tip fitted. How do you get full photos (and more than 1!) in the body of a post? All I seem to be able to do is embed 1 picture per post!

 

[Chrishazle]

Pic 2 :

 

[Chrishazle]

Pic 3 (of 3). Drilled 1 x 4mm hole in tip and exhaust for a short self tapper.