Dan,
I have been pleased with the Falcon stainless system I bought from
Moss more than five years ago. It's the standard system; they may have a
larger-diameter system available now. The system was an easy bolt-on job.
Everything fit ! Buy new rubber mounts, new manifold brass nuts and
anything else that is involved with the system. Re-use of exhaust parts
is frustrating.
Chances are that Moss gets its needles from Burlen, current
manufacturers of SU carbs, and that everyone else does also. But you
might call around to other suppliers to see if any might have the needle
in stock. Joe Curto comes to mind, and there are several others who
advertise in MGB Driver.
Bob
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:06:27 -0500 "RD Williford"
<dan_mgs@verizonmail.com> writes:
> Lost the muffler on I-64 this evening. Then got home to find that my
> Moss order was received, but the carb needle (AAU) is
> out-of-stock....
>
> Would like to replace rear carb needle with this (AAU for
> PO-replacement HIF4/AUD493 carbs), as it matches the (new) front
> needle. Moss had it backordered many moons ago when I did the
> rebuild (sent only one), so I tuned the carbs with two different
> needles (I know, not smart...). But 9 months later and still
> backordered seems odd... front carb (new needle) is burning clean
> with rear (old needle) running slightly rich, which makes sendse to
> me due to airflow and carb positioning.
>
> Car runs great (with the exception of lumpy idle), and is a rolling
> restoration pushed along by recent total-loss of my daily driver
> (subaru) to an unfortunate hydroplaning incident (no, AWD and ABS do
> not help when skating in a car on a big puddle).
>
> 120 miles round trip for the last two days and no unfortunate
> happenings except for the muffler... And excessive RPMs at
> interstate speeds (really need 5 sp. conversion <thanks BobH> or
> overdrive).
>
> Any recommendations on exhaust systems? I'm thinking of taking to a
> muffler shop to have them weld on straight pipe + new muffler
> (rather than dual muffler setup as original). Like the price of the
> Monza system, but not sure I can order and have a local shop install
> (I'm game for doing most any car-related repair/maintenance work,
> but detest exhaust!).
>
> Any listers in SW Indiana know of a good (and reasonable) exhaust
> shop that wouldn't turn away a B?
>
> Thanks-
> Dan
> 71 BGT
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