Painting exhaust tip

Saw this in a guy's build thread, asked him but haven't gotten a response..

How do I go about doing this? What kind of prep? What kind of paint? How far back from the tip do I paint?

My exhaust tip (and whole exhaust) is pretty oxidized.

How durable is this?

I think it looks awesome

 

Just use a high temp paint. It doesnt get that hot near the tip. Go back as far as you want (or can see). The closer you get to the headers/cats though, the hotter its going to get. There really isnt a reason to though.
As for prep, you could probably run some 0000 steel wool over the area to clean it up. Just make sure you either paint it off of the truck, or tape the whole area around it real well to avoid overspray.

 

I like the black but the TRD looks horrible on it. But use high temp paint and you won't have any issues.

 

X2. I would have just painted the TRD logo black too.

 

I think he did that by hand.

I might just go straight gloss black

 

Are you saying this was a hand job?

 

he used stickey tracing paper.

 

Hey man what I did is sanded it down with I think around 400 grit and painted it with rustoleum 500 degree paint, bit if you want to be extra sure buy the 2000 degree paint but it does cost more

 

Are you saying you want to tug on his glossy tip?

 

Thanks dude.

 

WIN

 

I might, it sure is pretty and shiny!

 

Yes.....and something about really working the tip?

 

It is quite attractive, I must say

 

It's matte black paint too

 

thats flat black? or was it freshly painted in the pic?

 

Freshly painted but it's still shiny, so I'd say don't get gloss or else it will look like a mirror

 

Wow.

Thanks for the heads up

 

Crazy that's flat black!