Build Day 39- Exhaust

Day 39- Exhaust

Fitting Exhaust   

To really set the car off we decided to get the primaries, cat, and silencer sent off and professionally polished. We called round a few places and eventually got a decent quote from Mark Feltham, from Mark's Mirror Polishing, based in Peterborough, specialising is small scale polishing of car and motorcycle parts. Took them up on the Tuesday and picked them up the following day. They look fantastic. We had asked for the whole set to be race polished, but he decided to go half way between race and mirror polish for the Primaries and silencer, and the y look even better than imagined!!!!

One of the pics we sent Mark for the quote.

Beforehand I had done a fair bit of work cleaning the primaries and silencer with wet and dry paper in order to clean the weld marks and remove embedded grease. 

Our polished pipes.

This is the picture Mark sent before we picked them up. There are now other pictures on his website (marksmirrorpolishing.uk/mmp-gallery/) and I'll try and take some better pictures of them on the car.

To fit the pipes the instructions turned out to be useless, apart from the fitting order, because we had removed the labels from the ends. However they are pretty simple to fit with two sets of hands, mainly as the front and rear primaries have special ends which only fit to the block one way, and the middle two only go in one way too. 

Primaries in, car wrapped again in bubble wrap just in case.

Cleaning the bracket mount with a tap.

Cat required a few taps with a mallet to get it seated enough to get the spring clamps on.

As others have done, two cable ties around the springs.

For the silencer bracket we cut a small piece of rubber from some excess wing trim, and put it in-between the bracket and the body, which was then tightened appropriately. Then the exhaust bobbin was inserted into the bracket and tightened before the silencer was added, ensuring that the band clamp was put on before the silencer was put on.

All together, just the band clamp, cat heat shield, and the IVA trim.

A touch of exhaust sealant joining the cat and pipes.