C5 Corvette Exhaust Tip Upgrade (This was LONG overdue!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- 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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The c5s stock exhaust tips looks like they got flatten. The new tips look so much better.
Thank you!!
Great looking exhast modification. Much more distinctive than the stock look. Keep up the very best C5 videos on YT.
Much appreciated!
It’s about time!
Ten years..... I waited tooo long for sure!
This is probably one of the most interesting solutions to the C5 exhaust upgrade question that I have seen.
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.
Doesn’t look like such a sleeper now. I liked the grandpa look when it traps in the 130’s.
The sleeper aspect is fun, part of it is I've had the car for 10 years and just need a little change here and there.
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.
That looks a lot better!
Thank you for the assist!
yeah those bigger round tips looks cooler than the stock oval tips
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
Appreciate the feedback - thank you!
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
I appreciate that!
I added large after market tips to my C5 and the sound improved considerably even with a bone stock exhaust system from the factory.
Nice
Oh hell yes!! Looks amazing and great job with the fab work.
Thanks so much!!
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!!
Appreciate the support, sir!
Also running the Bassani X pipe. Great functional piece. I was lucky enough to get it for free from my original dyno guy. He gave it to me because he said my car sounded like shit with the cam I was running and the original open H pipe. IT had this weird terrible farty fluttery noise at idle. It really did sound bad. Normally I like the sound of an H pipe over an X but in this case the X is a thousand times better.
@@PNW_Car_Mods are you running the x pipe with a stock Axel back exhaust system?? I wish I could hear it , I’m new to the C5 world so I was just extremely lucky to find a guy who knew his sht and did a cam, and some top end stuff, with the full exhaust .
Like ‘em!! Thanks!!!
And the Z06 had a titanium exhaust, and you mentioned it just as I wrote this!
Nice piece for a NA road car- makes me cringe thinking about how many people over the years ditched it for a heavier exhaust just for sound.
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.
Which ones did you get? Can you post a link?
@@mwp1088 Actually I ordered different tips from Amazon but when I was at the shop the welder suggested other tips that were shorter and would fit better. Only thing is he had to butcher other dual tips to do it. Worked out great.
Amazing job and amazing result. You're so precise and accurate in all your projects... Congrats! 👍👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
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.
Thank you! The other big part is there is a myth out there that the stock mufflers are restrictive - which is false!! Companies have an interest in selling complete 1K+ cat back systems when in reality, only the mufflers really need an upgrade for performance. SOUND - is a totally different thing and subject to a vast variety of owner tastes!
@@Toys4Life No doubt the c5 exhaust is one of the best flowing out there especially for it's generation. Now almost everything is great from the factory except for some of the early Ecoboost ford stuff for example. It would be fun to see you go to catless longtubes and see some before and after in the dyno department. At your power level I would be worried about the crappy gm cats. Mine had a destroyed drivers side cat at 26k miles on the stock engine let alone with a blower forcing the issue.
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 .
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
If it's cool in your area, as it gets closer to 70 and 80 degrees - traction gets a lot better.
I got 650whp and the nitto nt01 will give you a dead hook in second gear on the street! I feel so much safer lol. Down fall they don't last too long but what a difference!
Im running the Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 3+ Zero Pressure
The new tips looks great with what you have going on with that C5 they just sweetened everything , what about a start up 🤔
I should have (:-).
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!
Nice 👍
You definitely saved some money.
Looks really good!!👍👌
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!
I get it, and by showing what's involved helps people decide whether or not it's something they can accomplish before they get in over their head or if they absolutely can accomplish it. We all have different interest tools abilities experiences etc. I appreciate your feedback sir!
Sweet, looks good. Gotta do something about those stock polished wheels though
Oh, that would be hard for me to do. Subjectively, I love them. As a practical matter they're easy to clean, some of these complicated wheel designs look like they would take an hour to clean them. But hey, variety makes the Corvette world go around!
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
I like it! Nice improvement.
Thanks!
Looks excellent!
Thanks I also googled it and saw it
10.4
They aren’t even perfectly level on my ‘02 Z which hasn’t been wrecked or ever had the exhaust tweaked. 😅
Great vid BTW
Another excellent video. Thank you.
Thank you!
These videos are great! I’m hopefully picking up a 03 tomorrow that comes with both the stock and Z06 exhaust. I’m thinking of doing the bypass mod and this to the stock exhaust and leaving the Z06 one intact. Since the Z06 one is currently installed, can i do the tip install without the exhaust installed in the first place?
Would likely be harder to be sure they are aligned if you don't have them on the car to measure and ensure they are where you want them before welding
Wait your suppose have mufflers on your c5 hmmmm I just did straight pipe with these same tips on my c5
Nice!
Did the same with my fronts...
You should take that after market plate off .
your front what?
Great stuff!
Nice work
That’s looks a lot better, it appears to b on the left side muffler has a hair line crack, on the pipe existing the muffler.
Where in the video (minutes and seconds please) - if there is a crack I want to weld it up (:-)
Turn signal housings.
Put leds all around tho
I'm located in Stillwater, MN and was wondering if you would be willing to do the Exhaust bypass on my 2004 C5. I was quoted a crazy number at a local shop. Thank you.
Shoot me an email at T4LifeC5@gmail.com. Note, I cannot do the Titanium Z06 exhaust - but I can do the regular exhaust.
I just dropped off my stock exhaust to have the bypass welded in and new tips put. The shop said the 2.5 inch inlet was too big and to get a 1.75 inch one. How did you fill in the gap between the 1.75 inch pipe and 2.5” tip?
I cut a few slits, tapped everything in carefully and then welded it.
Once you cut off the stock oval part what was the diameter of the pipe?
Sorry - I didn't measure it.
I have a 1998 Base I am looking to improve the sound I’m 66 yrs old. I would just like to make a small statement with my exhaust
Any suggestions
Check out my videos on the C5 exhaust mod bypass for non ZO6 cars. They have a titanium exhaust which takes specialty welding. Inexpensive and makes it a little bit louder when you're on the throttle. Not much difference driving down the road normal. If money is no object, go with a corsa sport system.
@@Toys4Life Thank you for your Info
Time to upgrade to a self contained JT trim and make 800 plus to tire.😊
Next winters mods??
What is an exhaust bypass?
It's at the very end on the C5 Corvette where you bypass part of the exhaust past the muffler to make it a little bit louder, it doesn't make it much louder actually sounds pretty good. That's an alternative to spending a grand on a new exhaust.
Too much work for my lazy ass. Stock ones look good enough for me. Painted the background black and it makes them pop. C5 forever
No sound clip??
Sorry, I included a sound clip in this vid. th-cam.com/video/gga1kMNljMU/w-d-xo.html
I always hated the exhaust tips on the C5.
Ooh ya, now your exhaust tips will flow like a 600hp vehicle should…. 🤦🏼♂️
c5 stock tips are terrible round tips look a lot better