Well, I can handle those quad tips no longer! Off they came last night, in a flurry of sparks from the angle grinder. Mind you, it does create for me a rather unique issue as far as what to do in their place, but I think I've got it sorted.
I picked up a couple of Vibrant 1.5" mandrel bends, and dug out some tips from when I used to work there. This is just a photoshop, but the eventual plan for the exhaust. I need to visit a buddy with a plasma cutter to modify the tips before I can weld it all together. Looks like I'll need to shorten them by about a 1/2" and then set them up for a side inlet. The flow won't be ideal, but I'll take that over the quad-tip shin wrecker!
-Dave