Once you get it all put together you will probably not notice it, the more important aspect is how it works. I think if it would have been a natural pipe rather than nickel you could have painted it high temp black or the newer KX pipe paint it you for sure wouldn't notice it. Some of the pipes I used to do for the 500 conversions looked like a hand formed pipe I had so many cuts, it literally took 8 hours to do a pipe, so if you got by with 3 I'd say good job.