I've been slowly working on this when I get the time over the last few weeks, so it's still a work in progress. I do plan to do a bit more polishing as well as paint the rest of the exhaust black, just to get a little more contrast. Hopefully down the road when money is a little more plentiful I'll be able to invest in a nice aftermarket exhaust, but for now this will work for me.

Pics (excuse the dirty truck):
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8338/dscn0118p.jpg
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3769/dscn0119a.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1386/dscn0120ned.jpg
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2930/dscn0121x.jpg

For anyone else who may want to do this, I used 120-grit followed by 320-grit dry sandpaper, then 1000-grit and 2000-grit wet sandpaper, followed up by chrome polish, though the chrome polish wasn't really necessary after all the 2000-grit polishing I did.

Tom

Nice Job, didnt know it would clean up that nice.

looks great, how many hours it take ya?

Wow!! Really nice work!

Nice. I will be doing that.

Wow that's hard to believe that's the stock pipe, I have never seen some one do that before. I am going to definately try that on my truck, thanks for the cool idea!

http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww167/trplxl2/100_2141.jpg

looks great, how many hours it take ya?Well, it's hard to really gauge since I took several cracks at it. The first go around I did just about the first 6-8" of the exhaust, but realized that looked pretty dumb from behind. I then did the remainder of it whenever I had the time, and then finished wet sanding it right before I posted this. So, altogether it probably took me about 12 hours to do this. Now, had I done it all at one time, it probably would have only taken me 4 or 5 hours to do, since I wouldn't have spent time wet sanding and polishing it three times. ;)

The hardest part was the fact that there is a seam-line facing forward on the exhaust that alone took several hours of sanding to make invisible. Had it not been for that, it would have taken me considerably less time.:mad:

Tom

I'm still resting my arm after my first attempt.

I'm still resting my arm after my first attempt.:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

Yeah, I should mention that this was spread out over roughly a one month period, a few hours at a time every-other weekend. ;) :D

Tom

the black on the rest of the pipe will look nice.

Looks good man

-J

Looks good man

-JThanks! :D

Still enjoying your truck?

Tom

Update: I painted the exhaust (not all of it, but the rear couple feet), and snapped a few photos. It's been raining here, and I took the pictures right before the rain started again, so excuse the filthiness of the truck.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6058/dscn0199.jpg
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9625/dscn0198.jpg

Tom

Can you take a pic farther back like of the whole back of the truck. I've been thinking of doing this, but I don't want it to be to notice able.