The exhaust mock is finally finished! After a complete disaster last year with a shop in Southampton that didn’t do their job we’ve changed plans and created our own exhaust with a BTB 6 branch manifold and two Magnaflow glass packs. The rest of the piping is made of Jetex stainless universal parts.
This week we finished the mock up on the exhaust! Due to Richard’s Compact project we’ve got a MIG welder now! This meant that we could tack weld the bits together! It needed the 35 degree angle replacing with a 45 as the back box on the Y pipe ended up sitting far too far back and there wasn’t enough straight parts to move it far enough in. With the 45 everything now fits with just enough adjustment room to get the back boxes aligned.
At some point soon we’ll take the parts than need the welding finished off to Black-Cat (a talkaudio regular) who will finish it off properly – not quite read to make nice stainless welds yet after about an hours practice!
We’ve also re-done the brake pipes at the front and fitted the BMW master cylinder with adapter plate
