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Originally Posted by DavidBoren (Post 602504)

The titanium exhaust will offer you no advantages over a stainless steel exhaust, other than being able to say you have a titanium exhaust.

The sound will be the exact same out of two identical systems, regardless of whether one is titanium and the other is stainless. So that fancy titanium exhaust you heard could be made in stainless steel for a third of the cost, and give you the same sound.

If you do choose to go titanium, for whatever reason, it would behoove you to buy it from a manufacturer, as I wouldn't trust your average exhaust shop to weld titanium properly.

As for mufflers, I like Borla.

Ti is a lot lighter. But dollar per lbs, you can do it else where.

As far as welding, Ti isn't much off, you just have to have the right gear. Cutting it, well that's another cluster. Stainless welds up a lot easier than Aluminum. I actually enjoy it.

Ti needs lots of gas flow and shielding

Sure Ti will have a different sound. The material properties are different so will have a different resonance. Is it worth it? Probably not. It sucks to bend and machine but not so much to weld IMO. It's most useful in aerospace and chemical applications that take advantage of it's strength to weight ratio and high chemical/corrosion resistance.

Ti does throw off really cool white sparks when you grind it though, gotta love that!

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Originally Posted by OBeer-WAN-Kenobi (Post 602647)

yep, they use titanium dust in fireworks. Bright white flash.

What did you use to grind it?