Adding a Titanium-Like Finish to Exhaust & Intake?
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Adding a Titanium-Like Finish to Exhaust & Intake?
watsup guys, i have another question and dont know where to post it so here it goes. i want to get the Injen CA Intake, and an hks exhaust. but i like the burnt titanium look that other intakes and exhausts have, like the amuse.
i want it to look like this but be a cai. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctwenty...57622931597142
is it possible to give this burnt effect to any metal? any titanium? or do i have to buy the product wth that finish.
my idea was to just pick up the hks and injen and send them to someone that specializes in this finish? thanks for the help in advance. i also want get an aftermarket strut bar in this finish.
reason i want to do this is it will look cool on my car.
i want it to look like this but be a cai. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctwenty...57622931597142
is it possible to give this burnt effect to any metal? any titanium? or do i have to buy the product wth that finish.
my idea was to just pick up the hks and injen and send them to someone that specializes in this finish? thanks for the help in advance. i also want get an aftermarket strut bar in this finish.
reason i want to do this is it will look cool on my car.
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The main reason that the pipe in the picture is like that is because its Titanium...
I dont think doing that with an injen pipe would be cost efficient...let alone very easy to do..
Im pretty sure the injen pipe is coated and isnt bare metal like most of the Ti burnt pipes or even the Ti "look"
Im pretty sure you have to get it down to a bare metal and then polish..then very carefull heat treatment maybe? regardless i dont think that doing it on anything other than real Ti would last very long...
I dont think doing that with an injen pipe would be cost efficient...let alone very easy to do..
Im pretty sure the injen pipe is coated and isnt bare metal like most of the Ti burnt pipes or even the Ti "look"
Im pretty sure you have to get it down to a bare metal and then polish..then very carefull heat treatment maybe? regardless i dont think that doing it on anything other than real Ti would last very long...
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yeah this guy has some terms wickedly confused for sure..
is yousearch, theres a threadof someone who made a titanium CIA intake tube recently.. doesnt look super great, and is brittle as hell.
Andnot cheap.
Youd need to make it the same way the HKS knockoff exhaust companies do thier tips.. id start there.. call XO2 or one of those guys to see what they use.
is yousearch, theres a threadof someone who made a titanium CIA intake tube recently.. doesnt look super great, and is brittle as hell.
Andnot cheap.
Youd need to make it the same way the HKS knockoff exhaust companies do thier tips.. id start there.. call XO2 or one of those guys to see what they use.
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yeah this guy has some terms wickedly confused for sure..
is yousearch, theres a threadof someone who made a titanium CIA intake tube recently.. doesnt look super great, and is brittle as hell.
Andnot cheap.
Youd need to make it the same way the HKS knockoff exhaust companies do thier tips.. id start there.. call XO2 or one of those guys to see what they use.
is yousearch, theres a threadof someone who made a titanium CIA intake tube recently.. doesnt look super great, and is brittle as hell.
Andnot cheap.
Youd need to make it the same way the HKS knockoff exhaust companies do thier tips.. id start there.. call XO2 or one of those guys to see what they use.
i dont know what the process to make the pipe look like the one i posted is. i thought it was heat treated for some reason. acid treated maybe? whatever. knowone else knows so shutup. jk.
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The main reason that the pipe in the picture is like that is because its Titanium...
I dont think doing that with an injen pipe would be cost efficient...let alone very easy to do..
Im pretty sure the injen pipe is coated and isnt bare metal like most of the Ti burnt pipes or even the Ti "look"
Im pretty sure you have to get it down to a bare metal and then polish..then very carefull heat treatment maybe? regardless i dont think that doing it on anything other than real Ti would last very long...
I dont think doing that with an injen pipe would be cost efficient...let alone very easy to do..
Im pretty sure the injen pipe is coated and isnt bare metal like most of the Ti burnt pipes or even the Ti "look"
Im pretty sure you have to get it down to a bare metal and then polish..then very carefull heat treatment maybe? regardless i dont think that doing it on anything other than real Ti would last very long...
I've seen a write up here somewhere.
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Yes, you can. Did it with a friend to a stainless steel "tobacco" pipe. Looks super dope. I'd recommend polishing it first, then torching the living f*ck out of it with a butane torch. I think you should actually use an oxy acetylene torch, but only do it if you know what you are doing (it will take a 1/10 the time).
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if your intake was made of stainless steel, you can just torch them until they change colors. your injen is made of aluminum and melts easily and wont work.
here is an example of stainless after getting hot..
here is an example of stainless after getting hot..
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thanks for the replies guys. and i will check out those exhausts thst have been posted.