Mastering Your Exhaust Setup: The Complete Guide to Exhaust Tips

Factory exhausts are often the first components in planned vehicle upgrades. Changing the stock piping in your car provides multiple benefits, from increased horsepower and usable low-end torque to enhanced durability and improved aesthetics.

While complete cat-back and axle-back systems boasting new mid-pipes and revised mufflers are common performance options pushed by dealers and manufacturers, for a simple aesthetic upgrade, consider going with new exhaust tips. These come in multiple design, material and performance options, ranging from a glossy exhaust tip chrome finish to angle-cut stainless steel and resonated tips to tune the sound - to mention a few. Where the parts excel is providing many of the benefits of full exhaust assemblies without the high price tag or extensive installation needs.