SCHWEET eh?

 

retails from J's Racing at near $850 USD

 

looks nice, except for the tip...

 

anodized or heated tip? Doesn't look too bad. Definately different.

 

Ti is brittle, it'll crack easily

 

Ti is the best exhaust system out there, I have had about ten different ti systems and never a failure. I guess that also depends on the ppl makinig it. For 850 usd its probably a pile of crap. Good exhuasts are more than that if they are ti

 

Ti hasn't been around for that long, so I doubt you have enough experience with them to see them crack, but in the long term, you will see failure at the stress points, like flanges and hangers. On the other hand, it is sickly light... so perhaps that lowers the amount of stress on it

 

funny bend in the tip

 

we all need to get into pentoflow exhaust systems... how can you beat 5 mufflers man!!!

 

Is that what they're called or is it just a joke? I thought nobody could find any info on them.

 

Ti's been around for quite a while, just making it's way into cars. It's getting very easy to design and test components to eliminate stress fatigue failure, which is what you're describing. Titanium is used extensively in missiles and military jets and while repetitive stress is not something you worry about with missiles, it is just a matter of proper design and analysis to prevent it from being an issue in more permanent applications. You could simulate years of stress in a few days with the right software so if this company shelled out for a proper analysis and simulation then their product would be fine.

 

Hey I never knew J's racing copied the mugen EP3 exhaust system (same muffler and tip)

 

that exhaust looks like a limp dong

 

with mild frostbite

 

looks like a hooked *****

 

zc_hatch already said that buddy

 

titanium isn't brittle it depends how pure it is and the mixture... if properly heat treated though it can have a tensile strength of up to 180K which is that of steel... it has excellent heat and corrosion characteristics... i'm not sure how true it is but i heard you need an argon chamber to weld it too the brittleness people see in the material is when it is welding conventionally

 

sweet exhaust man, but it does look stupid at the tip

 

the tip looks like a blue limp dic K.. lol

 

The tip ruins it...