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I decided that nearly two years off the road is enough. I have no time and I have no money but it needs to back on the road soon. A major problem is knackered tubular manifolds and front section of exhaust. ATC want £900 for stainless steel manifolds and system. No way, that’s nearly what the car cost!
So, with inspiration from the 3000M I thought about running the manifolds forward, that way maybe I could use standard Ford stuff. Well it works! Two right hand Capri manifolds, the right hand on the car turned upside down to run forward. Sorted, I just need to make up some pipe to join up to the system.
Of course all this would have bee easy if whoever had put the V6 into the car (it’s a 200 and supposed to have a 2.0 litre Pinto in it) had put the engine in the middle of the car…..much time later and cut/extended engine mounts it all fits.
Obviously I need to shift some wiring and the alternator but hey it’s a start and has cost me £8.50 so far for the two manifolds!
Left one:
Right one:
So, with inspiration from the 3000M I thought about running the manifolds forward, that way maybe I could use standard Ford stuff. Well it works! Two right hand Capri manifolds, the right hand on the car turned upside down to run forward. Sorted, I just need to make up some pipe to join up to the system.
Of course all this would have bee easy if whoever had put the V6 into the car (it’s a 200 and supposed to have a 2.0 litre Pinto in it) had put the engine in the middle of the car…..much time later and cut/extended engine mounts it all fits.
Obviously I need to shift some wiring and the alternator but hey it’s a start and has cost me £8.50 so far for the two manifolds!
Left one:
Right one:
looking good,
Why dont you run them along where the outriggers are, then side exit them?
That would also keep the outriggers dry and free from rust!!
Failing that, if you are on a budget, ive got some scaffold tubes hanging around, run them along the bottom and they can be a speed hump guard aswell!
Now, on a serious note, I have got some middle boxes that I no longer need if you are interested!?
Stu
Why dont you run them along where the outriggers are, then side exit them?
That would also keep the outriggers dry and free from rust!!
Failing that, if you are on a budget, ive got some scaffold tubes hanging around, run them along the bottom and they can be a speed hump guard aswell!
Now, on a serious note, I have got some middle boxes that I no longer need if you are interested!?
Stu
hallsie said:
looking good,
Why dont you run them along where the outriggers are, then side exit them?
That would also keep the outriggers dry and free from rust!!
I bet it wouldn't: my o/s downpipe passes very close to one of the chassis tubes and it's a bloody nightmare to keep any paint on it, and the rust off it...Why dont you run them along where the outriggers are, then side exit them?
That would also keep the outriggers dry and free from rust!!
Wedg1e said:
I bet it wouldn't: my o/s downpipe passes very close to one of the chassis tubes and it's a bloody nightmare to keep any paint on it, and the rust off it...
Alrighty........ silly plan number two....Why not:-
Cut off the outriggers and weld on scaffold tubes (which are galvanised) in its place, and then connect into it from the downpipes giving you a side exit outrigger exhaust thatll take years to rust thorugh!!!!
Stu
hallsie said:
Alrighty........ silly plan number two....
Why not:-
Cut off the outriggers and weld on scaffold tubes (which are galvanised) in its place, and then connect into it from the downpipes giving you a side exit outrigger exhaust thatll take years to rust thorugh!!!!
Stu
Erm... I think the corrosive exhaust gases will soon do away with the zinc galvanising... and the tube soon after Why not:-
Cut off the outriggers and weld on scaffold tubes (which are galvanised) in its place, and then connect into it from the downpipes giving you a side exit outrigger exhaust thatll take years to rust thorugh!!!!
Stu
What's REALLY needed is a set of those up-swept open pipes that the V8 hot-rodders used to use, poking through the bonnet...
I bet GrahamW has a pic lying around somewhere of some car he'll have had with them fitted 
grahamw48 said:
Lol! 
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Remember that my 280 DID have outriggers that had been replaced using scaffolding pipe ?
That's the ones. My Tasmin had had one outrigger 'repaired' using an old box spanner .
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Remember that my 280 DID have outriggers that had been replaced using scaffolding pipe ?
and the other with a length of thin-wall chrome tube from a dining table. Mucking fonkeys... 
When I did Tony's (Uriel) car he took it for an MOT and got back to the garage to find they'd jacked it up under the outriggers
Good job my welding was kosher Apparently he sold it to some guy in Germany; do we know any Germans with a white FHC...?
tvr-280i said:
That is how the USA spec cars have their exhaust so that a catalytic converter could be fit.
Rich
Interesting Rich, do you have any photo's to show where the pipes run?Rich
hallsie said:
Now, on a serious note, I have got some middle boxes that I no longer need if you are interested!?
Stu
Cheers Hallsie but the back half of the system is stainless so I just need to join up to the system at the gearbox.Stu
I think my system is a one off anyway made when the conversion was done.
They once cut the ends off a pair of Essex Capri tubular manis for me and welded on new ends to mate up to the 2.3 V6 Cortina system that I was putting on my 3 litre Essex-engined Cortina. Cost maybe a tenner ?
Most of these guys are enthusiasts like you and me, and if they've time, it adds interest to their day.
Same guys tightened my Wedge hub nuts for me....free, except for a pic taken with the car.
Most of these guys are enthusiasts like you and me, and if they've time, it adds interest to their day.
Same guys tightened my Wedge hub nuts for me....free, except for a pic taken with the car.
grahamw48 said:
They once cut the ends off a pair of Essex Capri tubular manis for me and welded on new ends to mate up to the 2.3 V6 Cortina system that I was putting on my 3 litre Essex-engined Cortina. Cost maybe a tenner ?
Ah yes, but in those days you could buy a house for fourteen pounds twelve and tuppence. You could have fish and chips, watch George Formby at the Palace Theatre, get the trolleybus home and still have change out of half a farthing Tell us more, grandad!
(Dunno why I'm laughing, my grandson asked me the other week what it was like in the olden days
)Ah, but houses down here in posh York were at least £17-19-11d...and weren't all black from smoke. 
OBVIOUSLY I'm far too young to be a Grandad .
I always thought it a shame chucking out all those exhausts though, especially when half of them only had a leaking joint or something daft.
- Company vehicles.
Oh for those halcyon days of crawling around scrapyards too.
OBVIOUSLY I'm far too young to be a Grandad .
I always thought it a shame chucking out all those exhausts though, especially when half of them only had a leaking joint or something daft.
- Company vehicles.
Oh for those halcyon days of crawling around scrapyards too.
grahamw48 said:
Ah, but houses down here in posh York were at least £17-19-11d...and weren't all black from smoke.
You may joke, but my dad grew up in Haverton Hill, which was hailed as revolutionary in its day as it was one of the new estates where the houses had gardens and there were green public spaces.Sadly, the fallout from the local petrochemical works meant that nothing, not even weeds, would grow in the gardens. They bulldozed the entire village in the early 80s. Ironically now of course the works emit hardly anything (well, mostly 'cos there aren't so many works) and the only thing left of Haverton is the remnants of the shipyard, one pub and a cemetery.
Oh, and lots of thieving gyppos.
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