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my attempt to duplicate fireball mega look

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Old 02-14-11, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by ArodDaLob
i'm gonna pray for this occurrence
dont get me wrong, if you can swing it go for it. Sure its much better built quality then what i can make. It came down to this for me, spend $850 on a set of mufflers that look great or spend the $850 on something i can not duplicate like OLT gauges,radio,climate and 3 spoke wheel. Like i said before i got money but i dont have it overflowing out of my vallet to drop that kind of cash on the exhaust. Your car looks great btw
Old 02-14-11, 02:45 PM
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I always wondered why more people hadn't done this already. Good work.
Old 02-14-11, 04:18 PM
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Beautiful work keep it up!
Old 02-14-11, 04:34 PM
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can we get some more pics then
Old 02-14-11, 05:00 PM
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That's Kind of what I
Old 02-14-11, 05:01 PM
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That's kind of what I tried to do:

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Old 02-14-11, 05:08 PM
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I'm not really feeling it. Maybe if there was more of tilt to the tips, idk. I don't have that much funds either but I'm still going to save for the Megas.
Old 02-14-11, 05:48 PM
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I'm really surprised other people haven't tried this yet.

Figure out the degree that the Mega tips are angled at and the tip diameter.

Angle cut the tip to duplicate the degree or slant that the Mega tips have.

Weld over the outlet of the polished muffler and fit it to the bumper accordingly.






While I'm sure the end product won't look as clean, it definitely beats wasting $900 in end mufflers.
Old 02-14-11, 06:02 PM
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You just gave so many people new idea to save money hah
Old 02-14-11, 08:46 PM
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Nice mufflers, any more pics of this?

MEGAs are offset inlet to outlet mufflers, I think this would looked better if you had a offset muffler instead of straight through. Regardless, it looks good.
Old 02-14-11, 10:28 PM
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I sware, this thread came at a perfect time. I have already talked to a good friend of mine who does exhaust work and sent pictures to replicate the Fireball Mega exhaust look. I'm gonna see what he thinks, but I can't wait to see what he comes up with!
Old 02-15-11, 02:13 AM
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Looks really good, wish I could hear it. I will most likely do something very similar. Magnaflow always sounds good.
Old 02-15-11, 04:35 AM
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Nice work, it looks really good.
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Originally Posted by One HoT
Nice mufflers, any more pics of this?

MEGAs are offset inlet to outlet mufflers, I think this would looked better if you had a offset muffler instead of straight through. Regardless, it looks good.
exactly what i said earlier in the thread....they are offset and Pintched muffler body not welded muffler body, mufflers are wider themself then magnaflows...oh well maybe i'll have to redo this. It only took me 25 minutes to do.
these obx mufflers are about as close as you can get to a mega look, unfortenatly they arent offset/offset and still the body isnt as big, but you can still use the offset side to exit the car. The muffler cannot be longer then 14" body or you wont be able to fit a 12" TIP anything shorter then that just dosent look right.The tips are also a 15 degree slash cut when you tilt them up 15 degrees they look straight. Problem is finding a 4.5" rolled edge tip with 15 degree slash cut...i couldnt find it.

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Old 02-15-11, 06:40 AM
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Looks absolutely , the whole car looks amazing keep it up.


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