Titanium piping, custom exhaust piping Options

[Phr0z3n664]

Ok this is possible because when my father was looking into buying his vette he was checking out a few z06's that came stock with titanium built exhaust, but in the end he opted for a c5.

Now why would I want this? Because Titanium is light as hell, strong, and doesn't rust or corrode.

Only prob is I have checked everywhere in my area in Louisiana and nobody can get it, and noone is set up to weld it.

Where can I get titanium piping, and where is a place that can set up a full titanium piping exhaust system? I am seriously looking into this as soon as my rims, springs, and struts are in.

[Kwanza]

QUOTE (Phr0z3n664 @ Apr 13, 2003 - 4:43 PM)

Ok this is possible because when my father was looking into buying his vette he was checking out a few z06's that came stock with titanium built exhaust, but in the end he opted for a c5. Now why would I want this? Because Titanium is light as hell, strong, and doesn't rust or corrode. Only prob is I have checked everywhere in my area in Louisiana and nobody can get it, and noone is set up to weld it. Where can I get titanium piping, and where is a place that can set up a full titanium piping exhaust system? I am seriously looking into this as soon as my rims, springs, and struts are in.

I think this is a bit impractical. Finding the pipes is hard enough, but finding a shop that can weld/bend them... too much hassel. Titanium is difficult to weld because it requires VERY high heat to be mallable...it actually gets stronger and stronger with more heat, until a certain point. I'm not sure if that's a factor, but like alluminum and such, I'm sure it requires a special mig/tig set-up to weld it. Just my 2 cents... not to mention it'll cost probably quite a bit.

[Guest_Matthew_*]

yea the titanium exhaust is probably only the muffler. i have the veilside teardrop muffler and stainless steel piping. you can get it from veilside. that is the only thing that i can think of for you other than it will be a waste of money. If you are worrying about rust just spray the pipes. seriously man titanium will not do anything that stainless steel won't do as far as performance goes.

[NEVERSTOP]

if I remember right you can mandrel bend titaniaum either so thats alot of cuts and welds - just go to the local exhaust shop and have them bend some pipe for you - you can get 7ft of steel for around 20 bucks - have them bend it and then get it powdercoated before mounting it - they have a really cool hi temp powder that looks just like stianless- you could do the whole project for around 200bucks and thats 3 inch for turbos and 2.5 for N/A's from the down pipe back