Just An Idea

[cavaliers60]

So, I got this crazy idea in my head.... What do you all think about painting the tail pipes???? I got this blue engine paint, and I was going to see what it would look like on the tail pipes.... Judging on the bottle, it will still have a chrome look too it, only blue.... you think it will work??? or even look cool??

[alerored04]

imho itll turn out poorly and look bad, try it if you want though, you can always sand it off.

[cavaliers60]

I think I"m going to buy a cheap tail pipe and try it on that first. lol

[derek_ski99]

i think a chrome tail pipe would look better than a painted one in our case...although i have seen black painted pipes and they look pretty sweet. high gloss black paint.

[El Pablo]

if its that spray paint stuff from wal mart it'll come off, it looks good on some things, i would have it profesionally done if anything. just my two pennies.

[Coldfire]

I think it could look good, but it depends on the shade/tint of blue you've got.

[cavaliers60]

It's kind of a darkish blue color.. about the same as my car's color... I was thinking about getting it professionally done, but the only place that does it around here wants to charge me $400 to do it... I don't think so. lol

[Coldfire]

Well, doing them the same color as your car will sort of make them dissapear don't you think? I mean that may be what you want and that's cool, but if you want them to stand out the way chrome pipes do, you'd have to use a complimentary color of blue. But then of course we're talking about buying new paint besides the labor costs since you already have the dark blue. I dunno, maybe your idea of buying cheap pipes and trying it out is good. If you do post up pics.

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

$400 to paint the tips?! f*** that! you can probably get them powder coated for under $100 total for both tips.

[cavaliers60]

yeah, that's basically what I told them.... I also got some gold paint, I might try that sinse my car has the gold package and all the emblems are gold... I'm just trying some different ideas.... seeing which looks best... I will post pics as soon as I get my digital camera working. haha

[pimpalero2003]

really make sure you take a wire brush or someting to that pipe and make sure u use all hightemp paint see i didnt do that i ran out and then used regular paint and it bubbled like a mofo

[cavaliers60]

It's a high temp paint... I thought about that before I bought the paint. I actually found a guy that would do it for like $50..... he painted my friend's car and it looked awesome! so I think I might have him do it..... right now, I just need to find a tail pipe that I like....

[violentrapture]

Hm, definitely interested in seeing how this turns out - great idea!

~vR