C5 Corvette Exhaust Tip Upgrade (This was LONG overdue!)

The stock C5 Corvette Exhaust Tips are small and bland. The mufflers flow very well and aftermarket cat-backs are $1400 and up - so save a bunch of money and upgrade your exhaust tips for $96 and a few hours of time.

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[Ls_corvette]

The c5s stock exhaust tips looks like they got flatten. The new tips look so much better.

[nikkoalpha]

Great looking exhast modification. Much more distinctive than the stock look. Keep up the very best C5 videos on YT.

[GregorioLonewolf]

I totally agree about the stock tips. When I got my 2000 Z51 coupe one of the 1st things I did was change the tips out for ones I got at one of the Corvette after market sites. They were still oval but much bigger in diameter. Made a BIG difference in appearance. I'm so glad that my 2003 Z06 tips are way better than the coupes tips were. Thanks for another great video.

[Glide]

I had to have more noise but didn't want to risk drone. I went with Borla S Type II and X-pipe. No drone, sounds just right. But as you pointed out, not cheap. Impressive work on your tip mod. Looks great.

[farerse]

yeah those bigger round tips looks cooler than the stock oval tips

[failranch]

Doesn’t look like such a sleeper now. I liked the grandpa look when it traps in the 130’s.

[avra]

This is probably one of the most interesting solutions to the C5 exhaust upgrade question that I have seen.

[PNW_Car_Mods]

I did something similar to my early C5 Corsa Touring or Sport system as the early Corsa tips were pathetically dated looking. The only thing I did differently is I used a longer 2x4 that spans all 4 tips at once making it even easier to insure level. Also got my tips from amazon in a black stainless steel. I never made a video on it as it is just to niche of a thing to do since I was starting out with the corsa mufflers. Your scenario I think has much more appeal to more people in the same boat.

[troy]

The new tips looks great with what you have going on with that C5 they just sweetened everything, what about a start up 🤔

[MrJubbey]

I added large after market tips to my C5 and the sound improved considerably even with a bone stock exhaust system from the factory.

[richardelliott]

Refreshing to see some thought put into an exhaust modification. So many guys go only for a sound, and use about as much thought as when I was a kid putting playing cards against my bicycle spokes.  

My used car came with a magniflow axle back system that I am pretty happy with. It has similar looking exhaust tips, but certainly didn't cost a hundred bucks. Comparative gas milage figures against other C5s seem to indicate it adds a bit over stock beyond just noise. The car was set up as a corvette shop's racer in stock Xcross class when the previous owner bought it out of the back room to use as his transportation back and forth to Vegas from SoCal before the clutch got noisy and I got a good deal. I figure a pro shop would have an unusually informed ability to select parts, so I figure the extra noise is a tolerable tradeoff.  

In the old ads around from when the car was new, Andy Granatelli said the system sounds, " just right". ( this is the same Granatelli racing who put a jet engine into a corvette that my brother followed until it parked, where the driver told him that you drive that car around town with only the brake, you never need to touch the throttle. )

Besides the axle back exhaust change, which the class allowed, it also had the early year wagon wheels rims, which don't flex as much as the correct 03 rims the car now has, a mix of Kumho tires, with a handling tread in front, a put down the power tread in back, similar to what Pirelli uses in some sports tire sets, and what seems to be the absolute minimum of screws necessary to hold the interior trim, although I can't truthfully say that mildly infuriating deal was intentional in a car that old. It's also lowered a bit .

[ericswild]

Looks great. I'll have to try that bypass sometime in the future although at 597rwhp...It'll be a while before I get used to this power and or want to get it returned for mods. Thanks for all the explanations. At the end you mentioned traction. Im going to have to do something for that...rear tires are just spinning

[liamflynn]

Hey man you have a great channel I’m 16 and I plan to get two jobs and hopefully in a year and a half I’ll be able to afford a c5 corvette but I just wanted to say I really appreciate you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge with us

[joekoenig]

Wow! Looks great, but it’s not practical for most of us. First, I don’t have a lift. I also don’t have a welder, or a chop saw, or a hand grinder. Yes, I could go out and buy those things, but it would be less expensive to buy the Corsa cat-back system with tiger shark tips and pay someone to install it!
Anyway, you did a great job!

[Johnny-xfmp]

Love the vids man! My ‘04 C5 has a Bassani x pipe and axel back exhaust with long tube headers and I love the sound this car makes. From what I understand, you can’t get them anymore ( could be wrong) but, I’ve never heard another one sound so good!!

[leonlawrencez]

I replaced mine with 4 separate tips. That heat treatment color when they look yellow and blue in some areas. I love it. Looks great.

[daren]

Looks good! I did the magnaflow cat back exhaust and was way too quiet! Did the bi pass mod on the magnaflows now she sounds perfect with the longtube headers. Not to loud but loud enough when you get on it!

[richarddobreny]

And the Z06 had a titanium exhaust, and you mentioned it just as I wrote this!

[peterb]

I would say the corsas are worth the high dollar, but always good to keep an eye out for a used pair, I picked up the corsa sports with the quad center tips for about 820 used vs 2000 with tax new. The reason they are expensive is because they do not drone, even catless headers to corsas they will still cancel all drone, and second they arguably give the c5 and all other corvettes the best sound I’ve ever heard. Just my 2 cents

[josephcruz]

Aloha my friend, Thanks for this video I now see exactly what I will be doing with my exhaust to include the bypass and the tips. Thank you again for your awesome ideas. Aloha