Magnaflow cat-back /w different tips?

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I like the price/sound/quality of the Magnaflow cat-back, but I really don't like the tips it comes with. I was wondering if anyone out there had used different tips? Magnaflow's website (http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/tips/truck.htm) has tips that look like they would be a direct swap w/o welding or anything, other than the fact that they don't have the hanger attachment... I'm looking at the 45 degree 'slash-cut' tips... I want it to look closer to stock.

Any advice/info would be greatly appreciated!

 

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kinda looks like the same thing. what is wrong with your tips?

 

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you can get MRT rolled tips.

 

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jeff1414 - i don't like them being 3.5", i prefer the 3" stock size... and i don't like the 15 degree cut, I like stock 45 degree cut....

 

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I just did MagnaFlows on my GT. As a matter of fact, I did them today.

Tips were the hardest to figure out. After a month of changing my mind I went with the 4" Magnaflow rolled slash cut 18" tip. Absolutely, without a doubt a BAD MO FO'! But,they may be to big for me. I'm going to look at em' for a while and let the new shock value wear off before I make up my mind. Not at all "Ricey"... They're just big. Fills the cut-out almost perfect. But, they're real big!

If I change them, I won't go smaller than 3". 3.5" might be enough.

I have some great pics of my set up. E-mail me and I'll send them to ya'. Having trouble with the size of the pic on here.

 

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Oops! gpfire@comcast.net

 

01GT eibach

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3.5 inches is the perfect exhaust tip size IMO. It fits the cutout perfectly. I was leery of 3.5 inch tips being too big, too. But after getting them on, they are clearly the perfect size. Just my $0.02...

 

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Why don't you just get the magnaflow mufflers in weld them in if you like the factory tips?

 

LI98GTStang

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If you like the stock 45 degree 3.0" tips, you could always get the FRPP catback like I did. Having said that, I've seen the Magnaflow tips in person and on 99+ as well as '96-'98 models and IMO, look great on the 99+ as 01GT eibach said, but not so hot on the '96-'98 as the tips are more exposed from the side. The 3.5"s fill out the cutouts really well, but everyones taste is different.

 

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01GT eibach - its not so much the 3.5" as it is the 15 degree cut that i don't like...

decoy562 - i don't want to do just weld-ins because i want the 2.5" tubing /w mandel (sp?) bends...

 

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rwb_03gt said:

01GT eibach - its not so much the 3.5" as it is the 15 degree cut that i don't like...

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Even though I don't share it, I totally respect that opinion. The 45-degree cut is classic Mustang.