well im about to buy some 18" long exhaust tips, my question is, what size should the inlet be?? for all you guys that have gotten tips longer than 13 inches, please let me know what inlet size did you go with.
inlet size for tips....
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well is the stock catback, i know my tips are 2.5 wide, i dont know how wide it is 18 inches back.
Pughman
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jeffnoel
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Pughman
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i know the piping by the mufflers is 2.25, but i measured the tip and it was 2.5, it gets bigger by the tip.
jeffnoel
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These are the same tips that I purchased and installed.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Two-...cmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33633QQitemZ7994498456
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Two-...cmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33633QQitemZ7994498456
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jeffnoel said:Maybe your 97 is different but before I purchased my tips for my 02 I measured the pipe right at the back of the factory tip and it was 2.25". The tips I purchased were 18" by 3.5" chrome angle-cut tips with 2.25" inlet and they fit perfect.
nie looking tips, maybe im wrong, ill see again i guess, i have to go back to the shop to measure
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todd4566
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As mentioned, the stock tubing is definitely 2.25. Aftermarket catback's are 2.5. I wouldn't stress the new tips inlet so much though.. a good muffler shop should have no trouble welding a 2.5 inlet tip to a 2.25 pipe. I've had it done on other Mustangs.
ok, so just to make sure, ill get he 2.5 tubing they can prolly make adapters or sumthing right?
todd4566
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Either way your safe. If you for some reason had a 2.5 inch pipe, and a 2.25 inlet on the tip, the beginning of the tip could be cut where it begins to flare. Vise versa, your could weld a small piece of 2.25 pipe with the end flared outward to meet with the tip (there is a machine that does this but I don't know what it's called). I've also seen my muffler friend take a thin metal rod he welds in between to fill gaps from different pipe diameters - I'm not sure if that makes sense, but I don't know how else to explain it without pictures. 
Point being, a muffler shop can do it.
Point being, a muffler shop can do it.
im getting these what do you guys think?
http://www.performancepeddler.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=MAG35143
http://www.performancepeddler.com/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=MAG35143
yeah the 96-97's are 2.25, 98's are 2.5
http://www.performancepeddler.com/d...UCT_ID=MAG35143 what are you going to do about hanging them, or is that a basic pic?
http://www.performancepeddler.com/d...UCT_ID=MAG35143 what are you going to do about hanging them, or is that a basic pic?
tomustang said:
im going to tell the guy to nicely weld a hanger from the top or the side from the side of the gas tank, where ever it possible and not as noticable.
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todd4566
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Black Stang 97 said:
Pretty good price, and they look good. I've had the stock 3" tips, 4" tips, back to a different 3", and now 3.5". No more.
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