Custom Fab Titanium Exhaust

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Originally Posted by Def

I've got a few shelves full of mandrel bent titanium tubes at work, so it's very possible. It wrinkles less than aluminum tubing of the same diameter and wall thickness.

McLaren F1's stock headers and exhaust system are titanium, and they're all mandrel bent. I think the Corvette ZR1's exhaust is titanium as well, and I can guarantee you they aren't pie cutting that thing.

Very cool info. Apparently I'm blind, or haven't been looking hard enough.

Aluminum, to me, is the easy choice here for cat-back stuff... doesn't corrode /rust (like mild steel) much, is reasonably cheap (about double the cost of mild steel, less than half the cost of Ti), and almost as light as Ti.

Oh, and the Z06 and ZR1 exhausts are Ti, but they're covered in heat shields. I'll have to get a peek at the bends the next time I'm under my dad's C5 Z06.