JeffJ Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 When I first got my car home, I saw that my left rear exhaust tip was not quite right. I thought that maybe somebody hit something with it and that I needed to get it fixed. However, looking at it on the lift, it was clearly not hit and it looked like it was something wrong from the factory. Then I was reading in one of the magazines that this was like this on 30 cars. In the December 2006 issue of 5.0 Mustang and Super Fords, under one of the captions it states: "For you collectors, 30 of the early GT-H's have misaligned exhaust tips. FRPP offered new after-cat systems, but Shelby knew collectors would eat it up." I've seen two of them, mine is one that has this issue. It only appears to be on the drivers side. Does anybody else here have one of these early cars with the misaligned exhaust? I wonder if Shelby knows which cars these were installed on? Here's what mine looks like: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matts Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 I actually find that misalignment very interesting and worth doing a more in depth research on. I would love to have that misalignment let alone a Shelby GT Hertz. I say again that is one fine piece of art and one hell of a conversation piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 I actually find that misalignment very interesting and worth doing a more in depth research on. I would love to have that misalignment let alone a Shelby GT Hertz. I say again that is one fine piece of art and one hell of a conversation piece. +1 the gt-h is my fave shelby of all time. i've never heard of this exhaust flaw, but i'd be really interested to see if anyone else on here has the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HARALD KELLEY Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 Hey Jeff, # 50 is slightly off on the drivers side. Not as prominent as yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingram4868 Posted October 14, 2008 Report Share Posted October 14, 2008 It might just be the camera angle but those exhaust tips do not look like the M-5230-GTA mufflers installed on the SGT cars. The GTA mufflers were notched so that the tit on the exhaust pipe would line up exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormeaston Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Bend it over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Bend it over. Yea, I don't think that I'll do that since it came that way and it is an oddity. I do know that the tips on the GTH vs the SGT are different. The SGT tips are very similar, but are a bit more rounded at the back edge. The GTH tips come to a pretty sharp point at the very back edge. I've compared quite a few and I rented a few of these before I bought mine and know them well. Mine are the stock tips. I do polish them on the inside where they angle up to the middle, so that makes them look a bit different also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormeaston Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Yea, I don't think that I'll do that since it came that way and it is an oddity. I do know that the tips on the GTH vs the SGT are different. The SGT tips are very similar, but are a bit more rounded at the back edge. The GTH tips come to a pretty sharp point at the very back edge. I've compared quite a few and I rented a few of these before I bought mine and know them well. Mine are the stock tips. I do polish them on the inside where they angle up to the middle, so that makes them look a bit different also. There ya go, kinda like the SGT hood scoops. I'm leaving mine just the way it is, slightly warped, although you have to look pretty hard to see it, dosen't bother me because it dosen't affect the performance of the car. 30 years from now some guy will look at my car and say, " Wow, look at this SGT.........it still has the original hood scoop"! "and look at this.........a SG-H with the original factory misaligned exhaust tips"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HARALD KELLEY Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Hey Jeff, I took a closer look at mine and it is like yours. Maybe it is not the first thirty (30). It does not bother me and I have no plans to tweak it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted October 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 The first 30 FRPP exhaust tips were not built straight. So it is pretty likely that yours also has them. They were not on the very first 30 cars as they were not built in that exact order. My understanding is that once they learned the error, FRPP started building them correctly and the new ones were mixed in. So which cars these are on is still in question. I wonder if SAI actually knows which cars these are on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted November 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2010 So it's been a couple years since this topic was out there. Does anybody else have an early car that found a crooked drivers side exhaust tip? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene64cobra Posted November 17, 2010 Report Share Posted November 17, 2010 +1 the gt-h is my fave shelby of all time. i've never heard of this exhaust flaw, but i'd be really interested to see if anyone else on here has the same thing. now here is an interesting misalignment photo on kahmann's signature line post #3. but i don't think we have any complaining to say about this. couldn't resist sorry.. i will have to look i am not that sure if mine are alligned or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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