No problem, will do, it may be a few more weeks on the custom heat shield.

Btw, here are a couple of the installed pics with views of clearance b/w amuse and canister--the nismo harder exhaust bushings helped out a great deal ot make sure the muffler doesnt move:

 

http://www.webamuse.co.jp/new/produc...lent_gold.html

3 inches to 2.3 inches canisters, exiting 4 inch tail pipes (approximate metric to inches)

 

I've had one for 3 years now..it's getting kinda beat up.. and the tips turned a goldish hue from the heat over time

 

^^what's beat up about it--the pics looks fine. Any recent pics with view of the more "golden" tips after extended use? You have "A" tips? Thx.

 

Mike every time you post your car I drool. Clean well put together ride man.

 

At least you're not calling it an "army". That would be really gay.

 

Thanks guys The muffler part looks pretty good still but the tips are very gold colored now and i had a "curb accident" with one of the tips last month so one tip got a little scratched up and bent slightly too..

I'll take some close up pics this weekend of the goldness. The gold makes it look a little dingy

 

Thanks bro. sorry 2 hear bout ur minor curb accident. I assume you have "A" tips. Does the goldern color really look that bad? By "dingy" do you mean "dirty"? When did the color of the tips start changing?

Nice, clean ride BTW!

I wonder what would happen to "B" tips after extended use--if the color would change too, or if it's only the "unburnt" plain titanium sections that turn a golden hue In AFK's pictures in his first post, it looks like the plain titan sections on the b pipe and part of the muffler turned to a bluish hue, not golden?

 

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....ghlight=messed

Special "bent" version.

 

Yes, I have the "A" tips.. I found a pic taken 6 months ago.. Tips were totally clean when taken.. you can see it's goldish color now.. def not silver metallic anymore.. however if you look under my car the B pipe turned blueish purple and gold..

 

Yes it does look kinda dirty like that.. it's a dark goldish type color.. The tips started changing ~2 years..

I think the gold might be desirable tho.. I saw some Suby guy spray vynil shine on his muffler and tail pipes and then proceded to heat it up to make it turn gold because he wanted the "titanium look" .. at the time I didn't know what he was talking about because my tips were still shiny silverish..

 

^^ Welcome to the Club! I'm glad you still have your amuse!

Yeah saw this awhile back. Are you planning on getting rid of it and get another one?

If i remember correctly, it started to turn gold-ish, kinda like **** looking color. I didn't noticed it turning more blue-ish coz i got it like that from the 1st owner. But overtime, i see some new purple-ish color starting to show.

It does looks gorgeous either way.

 

There were a lot of offers for it, but nobody followed through. I thought about changing it for a Fujitsubo or a used Amuse, but I am pretty much done modding my car. I would probably sell the thing super-cheap if I get a new car, since I want to get something better suited for daily driving

 

Goodluck. If you see a used amuse exhaust up forsale in the marketplace be sure to be quick coz they sell pretty fast.

Jonnylaw, thanks for the pics. Gives me better idea on how to properly wiggle my way thru that evap canister.

 

One day.... Such an awesome Piece of work...

Chris

 

Oh, as for the EVAP canister thing... my mechanic just remove a lot of other shields that are apparently on the outboard side of the car. This allowed him to move the EVAP canister a little more outboard; hence no need for heat wrap.

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It would have cost me 400-500 for somebody to cut the flange off and weld a piece of tapered Ti tubing to make the muffler appear straight, but at that point that was too much money.

So I'm guessing there are less than 10 people w/ Amuse on this website?

 

That is a lot of $$$ to spend just to fix it.

I know there's atleast 3-4 of us here in Socal thats sporting the Amuse. My old set is still in very good condition and well taken care-of by a member here. For sure there's 2 Amuse floating around in SoCal

 

If you have a Track model Z you also have to remove one of your rear track diffusers to fit this exhaust..

 

correct. I am also working with someone on trying to make a custom one of these too.

 

^Make sure to keep us updated on that bro!

Anyways, another Amuse Exhaust in the Marketplace:
https://my350z.com/forum/exhaust/351121-amuse-r1-titan-exhaust3.html

One of the Tip is slightly damaged. His asking price: $1350

Good deal or Not a good deal?

Also, done cutting a couple vinyl decals of that official PowerHouse Amuse Logo. I'll post some pics later.