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Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:00 pm

Was that tri-mil exh lowsquare showed on his thing in the gallery ceramic coated? Will they discolor that much? Is there anything I need to do to mine before I put it on?

Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:58 pm

My exhaust system has a ceramic coated header and a stainless steel muffler. The ceramic coating looks a lot better than the stainless after a few thousand miles. The only discoloring I've gotten from the ceramic coating is when oil spilled on it and baked in - but I don't think anything protects against that. I'm considering using oven cleaner to get that off.

I'm considering having the muffler powder coated using the high-temp stuff to get rid of that discoloration.
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=850&itemType=CATEGORY&iMainCat=844&iSubCat=850

Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:18 pm

mike-buggsbuggy wrote: Was that tri-mil exh lowsquare showed on his thing in the gallery ceramic coated?

lowsquare wrote: I bought off of Ebay from ISP and got the raw set up...no ceramic coating

More information here : http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3390250

Regards
Pierre-J M.

Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:36 pm

I have the tri-mill in ceramic, picked it up on eBay.

No discoloration. A little louder, but I like it.

Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:28 pm

Like mentioned above. I bought the raw metal set and coated with peanut oil. After 4 coats it's turned a very nice dark gun metal gray. I like the look and hopefully it won't rust. Of course living in bone dry AZ will help with that as well.

Whoa...it was 80 today, blue sky and crusing with the top down. The sound of this Tri-Mil exhaust set-up is very nice. Especially compaired to the EMPI Monza I replaced. :D

Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:35 pm

I've got two exhaust one black one ceramic both new Empi copies of the tri-mil. I know what's gonna happen to the black one first time it gets hot. Can I sand blast it bare and do the peanut oil and exactly how

Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:42 pm

Ok I looked at the topic on how to do it. I still haven't put the Ceramic Empi on or the black one too many projects. The empi looks vey close to the tri-mil but who knows if it will last? 85 bucks black. 180 for the ceramic/ j-pipes cramic another 30

Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:44 pm

And how do I post a pic in the forum topic

Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:54 pm

You'll have to start with raw steel. So do whatever you need to get rid of the paint and / or rust. I found this thread over in the eurovan forum about different exhaust set ups. They were talking smack about the Por-15 exhaust paint...which I was going to use. As it turns out a couple of the guys were doing this oil rub to the raw metal, so I thought I'd give it a try.

lowsquare wrote:
Basically like seasoning your cast iron skillet or dutch ovens. I've applied 2 coats of oil so far and it's looking real good. Turning a nice dark brown. It should turn almost black from what I've read and never rust at all. We'll see how this holds up and how often I have to recoat...Here is AZ where it's hot, dry and almost no humidity...I hope it'll last a good long time.

Here is the link to the Por-15 discussion and oil treatment info. Good luck.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=163702&highlight=por++exhaust

Sun Nov 09, 2008 12:34 am

Hey mike-buggsbuggy...do you have any pictures of these EMPI systems? Where did you pick them up? I've done a few searches and haven't seen anything that looks like the Tri-Mil exhaust. Just courious where you picked them up and if they were a new item.

Pictures can be posted very easily. Go to the Gallery tab. Scroll down till you find the category you want to put the picture in. Then click the "add photo" in the upper left corner. Pretty easy from there...

Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:59 am

I have not seen the tri mill exhaust on any EMPI site. I like the look of these sets, but I doubt you will ever find the EMPI name on them.

Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:05 am

I'm talking about in the forum. For picture

Sun Nov 09, 2008 10:08 am

mike-buggsbuggy wrote: I'm talking about in the forum. For picture
Relevant cross post, updated for the topic:
Ian Epperson wrote: Yes, you have to have the pics uploaded somewhere before you can put them (link them) in a post. The Samba has a Thing gallery where you can upload them, and it even gives you the code for putting them in a post.

Thing photo gallery:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=30

Upload link for the Thing gallery:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_upload.php?cat_id=30

Here's lowsquare's pic:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=492803

Note, the direct photo link looks like this:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/492803.jpg
Starts in http, ends in JPG, GIF, PNG or BMP and contains no special characters like ? or &. Once you get that link, you wrap it in the [img] tags, like so:
[img]https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/492803.jpg[/img]
Note that in the gallery, there's text you can copy/paste called "forum code" that puts the [img] tags together correctly.

Putting that in your post gives you this:

Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:57 pm

Hello

For those who are looking for a picture of the Empi VW Thing exhaust, here is a link :

http://www.empius.com/2009_catalog/empi2009_pg121.html

Regards
Pierre-J M.

Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:03 pm

Empi parts #55-3425-0 c-coat ceramic & 00-3425-0 black. I put pic of mine in the gallery

Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:18 pm

Black or ceramic I just got them in from ActinImports Our Empi dealer. They were safety packed in rice and bambo![/img]

Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:20 pm

Thanks Ian! I am now enlightened

Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:24 pm

By the way, that's a Bay Window rear seat day bed being used as a piece of office furniture behind the exhaust!

Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:37 pm

This will give you an idea what a ceramic coated extractor/muffler will look like after 11 years and 100,000 + miles. Ya I know its a bay not a thing. I never clean this extractor, the idea was not to scrub off the ceramic coating in order to make it last longer. So far the idea seems to have worked.

The one on my 74.

Both are Kymco extractors. I'd never buy anything but a ceramic coated extractor after having had such good luck with these.

Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:59 pm

Stock(ish) system with ceramic coating. Has about 25k miles at this point.