Sounds like a chart topper! Seriously, I have a stainless system and have
been disappointed with the exhaust note, but mine sounds too choked, not the
distinctive throaty sound I hear on so many others.
PaulH.
http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.hunt1/
-----Original Message-----
From: jon.arikstad@merkantildata.no <jon.arikstad@merkantildata.no>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 16 July 1999 14:51
Subject: Stainles system:
>
>Here are some q' for you.
>When I bought the car, I knew the exhaust had to be replaced. I decided to
>buy a stainless steel system. Since some of my friends where going to
>Newcastle, England, I ordered it, and some other stuff, from ' sport car
>suppliers' there. The reason is that when my friends picked up the parts (
>for export), they did not have to pay VAT. Some paperwork is needed .
Also,
>in to Norway, it is not nessecary to pay MVA ( =Norweegian VAT) on goods
>that you carry yourself. There is a max value on the goods! But the result
>is cheap parts. Legally
>
>OK here is the problem.
>The system is really four parts. One manifold part/pipe , from cyl 1&4, and
>one long pipe from cyl 2/3. They go into a ' Y' piece, and the 'Y' then
into
>the two silencer partFrom the rear of the car, the sound is nice MGB. From
>inside, and also from the side of the car, it sounds as if I have a leak. I
>have been under the car, trying to fix 'the leak' If I have a leak, it must
>be small. Cannot feel any hot air, also cannot see any leak ( = soot on the
>metal). The sound is 'high frequency' bang bang, sound like a well,...
>leaking system. sort of..
>I was told by someone who has had an MG for years, ' I do not like the
sound
>of a SS exhaust sysem'. Is this what he meant. Some think I have a leak,
>some think this it what SS system sounds like.
>
>Any ideas ? I will be under the car this weekend :-)
>Jon Arikstad
>1970 leaking? MGB GT
>
>
>I also have noice, dunk dunk, when one of the silencers sometimes hits the
>floor, ( easy fix, this weekend). And dingdingding when the exhaust pipe
>only just touches a nut holding the rear left spring.
>
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