I have never liked the look of silver mufflers, when a muffler is painted black, it kind of disappears, leaving only the nice shiny tips for the people behind you to see.  Remus & AMG mufflers are like this, so I decided to paint mine.  First thing to do was to mask off the tips and sand the entire body of the muffler with 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper.





To paint a muffler, you really have to use a high temp paint.  I used a 1200 degree engine enamel paint.  I had to insert a long bolt into my painting table to get the muffler to stand up like this.  I wanted to make sure the entire surface received a nice non-runny coat of paint.  Actually, about 6 coats of paint.


 

This is a straight on picture of the OBX muffler after painting.








Another side angle shot of the OBX muffler after the high temp paint.








A rear picture of the OBX muffler installed.  I had to notch the rear bumper to get the exhaust to tuck up.  I wanted to make sure there was enough room around the tips, as I have seen bumpers melt from the heat of the tips.  I also tried to radius the corners a bit.  A dremel comes in handy for this. 




A rear picture of the 190 with the exhaust installed.  I know it is not exactly centered, but it was when it was welded in place, guess I will have to fix it.  I had a Y pipe made to connect to the cat and then into a new 2.5" pipe all the way back to the muffler.  The center resonator was removed.  The car sounds very throaty now, at highway speeds in 4th gear, the car is very quiet.





This picture shows you the new exhaust and piping that was built.  I painted the all the new pipe black to match the exhaust body, not that anyone is going to see it though.