I have a subcription to mustang enthusiast magazine. and a month ago. they featured this one GT. purple, horrid color. with a stock GT bumper. with Big holes cut into it to have chrome tail pipes stick out like 2" past it.
ABSOLUTE WORST IVE SEEN.
if you get a cobra bumper, or that dech(first time seen/heard of it) bumper and do tailpipes. thats awesome. looks terrific.
If you hang them out under a gt bumper. i think its ugly.
And if you CUT holes to have tailpipes stick THOUGH. thats just the worst thing you can do in my opinion..
ABSOLUTE WORST IVE SEEN.
if you get a cobra bumper, or that dech(first time seen/heard of it) bumper and do tailpipes. thats awesome. looks terrific.
If you hang them out under a gt bumper. i think its ugly.
And if you CUT holes to have tailpipes stick THOUGH. thats just the worst thing you can do in my opinion..
LOL this thread brings back some memories. I bought my first Mustang from a guy that was seriously stuck in the '80s, and i don't mean in a good way either. He had the "skullet" (bald but still long in the back). He was a piece of work, cool guy but had some issues.
Anyways, i got my coupe with the bumper all chopped up for tail pipes....funny thing is when the exhaust needed replaced, he didn't cough up the cash to replace the custom exits out back, so he just ran the turndown style again, so there were these bigass holes in the bumper for NO reason.
I ended up trading this car for an '83/351W racecar.
Anyways, i got my coupe with the bumper all chopped up for tail pipes....funny thing is when the exhaust needed replaced, he didn't cough up the cash to replace the custom exits out back, so he just ran the turndown style again, so there were these bigass holes in the bumper for NO reason.
I ended up trading this car for an '83/351W racecar.
I think i'm with everyone else....i like seeing tail pipes but i don't think the GTs look right unless you get a Cobra bumper cover. You have to angle them and let them come down so far that i don't think it looks right. Plus, i think tail pipes should come straight out unless you're driving a truck or something....on a 'stang they should be the straight out kind like an LX. PLUS when you turn them down, you change the sound a little because it bounces off the ground.
With a GT stock rear bumper cover, tailpipes should NOT show at all. I'm not saying that I don't like tailpipes showing, because I like to see the tail pipes, but not on a stock GT rear. If you have a Cobra rear cover on, then you can show off the pipes because it was made to.
With GTs I think it looks tacky if they cut holes to show straight tail pipes or leave the turn downs hanging out. When I installed my cat-back I made damn sure you couldn't see the pipes hanging down from under the cover.
With GTs I think it looks tacky if they cut holes to show straight tail pipes or leave the turn downs hanging out. When I installed my cat-back I made damn sure you couldn't see the pipes hanging down from under the cover.