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Here ya go. I used silver solid core lead free solder. 3mm which is about the same as 3 inch tailpipes in scale. Roughly bent it up same as stock pipe. Drilled the slash cut end. I would paint that black inside if it were on a model. Measured where kit hole was for mount and figured out length. Added a pin to mount in muffler. Took me 10 mins tops.

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Also the 93 cobra bumper needs help. See where I taped? All that below has to go. They quickly added that to get the look. Here is how to roughly fix it in 5 minutes. Lol. Cut that off. The lightly recut the cutouts in higher up. Tip needs to be shorter but you get the idea?post-8987-0-05091100-1399329128_thumb.jppost-8987-0-58287900-1399329156_thumb.jppost-8987-0-58100200-1399329172_thumb.jp

Hope that helps but now you have put a 93 cobra on my bench....

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Jeremy, use solid rod instead. Much easier to cold bend. Don't use a lighter or open flame. Use hot water or steam from a boling tea kettle. Make sure that you take precautions as you can easily burn yourself with steam. I used the steam method to fabricate the pipes on my Abarth. It's 1/10th but the technique still applies. (I hope you don't mind my posting the pic)

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With solid rod you won't run the risk of deforming as you would with tube. :D

BTW, the rear valance on that Mustang is correct. Consequently, the tips on the factory pipes pointed down. There was no cut-out.

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