Exhaust Pack recommendations

I've got the same pipes as Mork it's a good bit of kit

 

I like this idea. I would have tried it myself on my 1776 but one of the tailpipes will need the bracket cutting off and flipping round, and I couldn't do that.

I agree - not a big fan of a huge great big snake of metalwork hanging mm's off the floor out the back of a bay. Subtle is the key. I've now got a very subtle slash tip exhaust that doesn't really give any hints as to what it's attached to.

 

You wont go wrong with one of these zoe

http://www.bluebird-type2.co.uk/split bay exhaust 1500 up.htm

I have one like it on my bus and wont be changing it for a long time

If a brand new one from bluebird customs is too expensive then ermentrude has a second hand one she may be willing to part with for the right money

 

No welding required, cut the bracket out of the middle and use the ends. You could do this with a hacksaw.

 

why dont you ask engine builders, what they recomend. the JK. prob sounds good and looks good, if you need something to tie you over, I used the monza 4 tip, sounds wicked, and looks great till the chrome starts to rust, at 70 quid a throw it would do for the summer.

 

PMACS makes a good point - ask the engine builder, then if it doesn't perform he can't blame the exhaust you put on it.

 

Pmacs does indeed make a good point untill he reccomends the monza four tip to tie you over

The monza four tip is the worst exhaust ever its actually more restrictive than a standard exhaust and would strangle the 1776

 

I had a 4into one and a single stainless quiet pack, that's what knackered my old engine as it doesn't let the gases escape the heads and back pressure pushes gases back down valve guides and knocks them out. When I had my engine rebuilt by Laurie Pettit I was advised on either a twin quiet pack or a Vintage speed, I went for the Vintage speed although a bit pricey it bolts straight on and Dan is really helpfull, I've done about 2000 miles on the new engine and exhaust averaging 28 to the gallon and would highly recommend the Vintage speed, nice note and not too loud, pleasant cruising note not drowned out by the drone of the quiet pack any more. You pays yer money and takes yer pick but the Vintage speed exhausts are run by quite a few on Earlybay as well.

 

Be aware that 4-into-1s can be extremely boomy at cruising speed, enough to drive you nuts.

My JK stainless booms like a good'un at exactly cruising revs - it's very wearing...

 

That's what the volume switch is for on your stereo

 

Now you don't see it...


...Now you do. Ugly, but effective.

£70 for the exhaust, £30 for the tail pipe to chop up. I welded a flnge fitting onto the the extra bit because I could, but there's no need - a loose one works fine for the HX/exhaust joint as standard but I didn't want it to wilt. It probably wouldn't have anyway.

 

Liking this idea, i'd like it even with 2 pea shooters on,

 

Like this?


They were a bit silly and set car alarms off. I'm not sure pea shooters work with a late bay unless you chop bits from the bumper, but I think bent pipes like mine might.

 

Looks tidy Zed, is that a added oil cooler on the left.

 

Filter Phil, the cooler's underneath in front of the rear torsion tube.

 

We're adding a filter and a cooler too. Whoopee, finally something I'm doing right!

 

Where Did you get the oil cooler kit from may i ask.

 

Oil cooler from MGBeehive for about £25. Home made brackets. hose and fittings Laurie had knocking about. You wouldn't want one on a 1600, it won't get hot enough.

 

Would a type four oil cooler fitted to a modified fan housing on your engine not be up to the job steve?
If not whats the maximum capacity that it would be good for?