Exhaust recommendations?

[lensey]

Can anyone recommend a nice sounding exhaust for my mates 4.2 Cerbie, he blew a huge hole in one of the back boxes on the way back from Le Mans. Also what sort of price are they?

[wokkywokky]

I got my sports pipe from peninsula. They are well built and sound great. They are also very cheap at £300 a pair.

[futie]

Your mate can have my old sports pipes for £50 if he wants. They are a couple of years old, but a bit of spit 'n polish and they'll look like new. Let me know if he fancies them. (so to speak..)

[alans]

futie
I'll have them off you mate if lensey is not interested drop me an e-mail (on profile)

cheers
Alan

[james]

Having tried every combination of assorted exhaust systems both with and without cats, I discovered that the best sound can be obtained with a standard exhaust with no cats.

The sound quality of a decat is far superiour to anything you can get with them on, but if you combine it with a sports exhaust, it just becomes too loud, and you lose some of the sound quality.

Just my observations of 53,000 miles in a Cerbie.

[yellowcerbie]

James

In your 53k miles, I am curious to know whether you have been stopped by the cops for being too loud. Does it attract any points / penalty?

How long does it take to put the cats back on to pass the MOT and have them removed after the MOT?

Thanks

[james]

I was never stopped for being too loud, even when my car was too loud The cops expect TVRs to be very loud cars, so you could probably get away with a lot that the owner of a Metro wouldn't.

The cats are pretty ewasy to replace, as the 2 canisters just unbolt from their place in the exhaust system. You just get hold of a pair of straight pipes to replace them. It's just a case of removing 8 bolts to get the 2 cats off, and then replacing them. The only time that you can have a problem is if the bolts have rusted up (which is quite common, as they are exposed to a lot of heat).

Probably take you between half an hour and an hour to swap them for the MOT, and about 20-30 minutes to sawp them back.

James

[yellowcerbie]

Thanks for the info!

[lensey]

Thanks for the info and thanks for the offer Futie, as he only got the car a few weeks ago the garage have done a deal with him about the exhaust so he should be all sorted now