I presume this is not OEM?

 

Nope aftermarket, was in the car when i got it

 

Cf on hot exhaust is a poor design. Resin on cf melts and this is not suitable material. It's like wear cotton t shirt as fire protection. You will get burnt. Get a proper titanium or steel tip

 

WOW thats crazy!

 

CF exhaust tips? dumbest idea ever....get rid of it and as other said...put the metal stuff back on.

 

The looked really cool lol, people complimented them more than anything else on the car hahaha

 

now you also need a new rear diffuser since the one you have has a hole in it too. getting a CF SL one?

 

CF composites are basically plastic...

 

That's horrible. Looks great but, not a great idea for exhaust tips for sure. I hope they are under warranty or the company selling them assists you in the problem.

 

As stated in my original post, they were on the car when I got them and I do not know who made them. That was part of my question! heh

 

Hmmmm, my fabspeed exhaust has an carbon fibre crossover. My Ducati has carbon fibre end mufflers... Never had an issue.......

 

Anyone know a good place to find some tips? I would like to get a black pair i guess dont really want chrome, my car is white /w black wheels

 

I have a set of OEM exhaust tips for sale, but they're dual tips from my 2009 LP560-4, I painted them with heat-resistant paint but they got scratched a little during removal. Easily touched up.

If you want something more permanent and resistant, you can always bring them to go get powder coated or ceramic coated.

See HERE

 

First time I have seen CF tips, I guess now we know why. Sorry for your loss.

 

Iv seen lots of carbon fiber exhaust tips but not like that. The ones that Iv seen are metal on the inside and a carbon fiber sleeve on the out side.

Lamborghini TP-CT/7 Tail pipe set (Carbon) 550/560 - Akrapovi?

 

Just put back on originals and have them powder coded black.

 

Don't have the originals I bought the car with these aftermarket ones. I found some titanium ones on eBay for about $500 I wonder if I can get those and have them coated black?

 

we do these as well:

(on the right, single walled SL "looking" tip)


or our quad tips:

 

I have a few sets of origionals if you want to go that route...

 

Sure, especially if you can coat them black??? pm me a price

 

ya thats strange. what is next, a header made out of cf? full exhaust made out of cf? lol

 

Carbon fiber can be used for the exhaust. The exhaust nozzles from the space shuttle rocket boosters are carbon/carbon. Which is also used for carbon ceramic brakes. It's incredibly expensive to make because its made in a hydroclave, which is about the size of a building and are incredibly dangerous to operate.

There are composite systems out there that will take the heat, but the price to make a tip would be more than anyone would be willing to purchase. Lamborghini used it on the concept car and F1 uses it as well.

It also depends on the manufacturing process. If you know composites and know manufacturing, then there are solutions out there. It can be done, but the market size relative to what the development costs involved would not justify it. There are motorcycle exhausts that are made, but they spread out the costs over thousands of units, not <100

 

Hi Ray

Are we talking about carbon ceramic or carbon fiber? how does the carbon fiber resin survive the heat?

 

There are companies that have patents on a special resin that can take 1800F degrees.

 

Apparently my exhaust is 1801 degrees

 

lol.

I'm interested to see the back side of the exhaust tip. I'm wondering how they made the part. It might give some clues as to why it failed.

 

The tip is very hard (obviously) the area around the whole and the other side where it's beginning to fail its soft to the touch much like just a woven piece of thread

 

Right, I would suspect so. The heat ate through the resin and all thats left there is the carbon fiber cloth. The back side will give indication of how they made the part.

 

I hope that my fabspeed carbon exhaust never melts. One thing for sure is that I drive the car in very hot weather and never had any issue.