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I am fairly confident that it will, but as ever, I do have a cunning plan "B".
In the worst case scenario, if it is not viable, and will definitely not work, I will slice the pipe off where it comes under the chassis to the engine part, and run a straight through pipe to the rear as Triumph intended, (complete with rubber suspension), and just leave the side exhaust as a very necessary dummy.
Obviously I would rather not do this, but you may well be right, and that would be my easy escape route.
Well its late and I've just packed up, I am seriously hoping to have the lot on and finalised tomorrow, but I've been saying that to myself for bloody days now!
It really is another one of those jobs where everyone else will just accept that you have a side exit exhaust with no idea just how hard you had to work to achieve it.
Today, my aim has been the same as the last five or six days, to finally bolt the complete exhaust and heat-shield into its final position on the car.
The main difference with today is, I finally did it!!
Aaar, the sweet smell of success!
If anyone would have said "it will take a whole week of work to get that bastard on"
I would not have believed them.
As Paul said. people will notice a side exhaust and just not give it another thought, never imagining for a second the amount of work it took to make and fit.
If anyone ever asks me I shall say, "yes it is nice isn't it?
I bought it ready-made, and it only took 10 minutes to fit"
Err, Scottie.... You are going to great lengths to get the detail right, so how about the sound..... GT6 motor perhaps.....?!?!
Well I got the car down off the blocks, and was able to drive it outside and have a good look at the exhaust.
It is the first time the system has been gas-tight, and although I have insulated the silencer from the sill (with plumbers mats) I have not yet got any heat wrap on the rest of it.
The plan is to get heat resistant padding in between the exhaust and the body/chassis where it is bolted on in order to minimise vibration.
In answer to Ollie, Wow! you have to hear the sound to believe it!
No one would ever think there was anything less than 3 liters under the bonnet making that lovely growl.
I can't wait for a drive-past at full belt!
In answer to Jaguartvr:
there is some slight vibration, but not a lot, and after the heat padding treatment it should minimise that even. I don't think I shall have to resort to plan "B".
With that sound, I don't mind checking all the nuts and bolts after every long trip!!
There must be some hard-up European soldier somewhere, who flogged his steel helmet on Ebay, who would be really amused to think some crazy Englishman had bolted his tin-hat to the side of his car!
Here are some better pictures of the thing itself:
I forgot to add that today I bought some paint for the car, I chose "Connaught green" which is basically black, but in a certain light, there is a hint of dark green sometimes, providing you have 20-20 vision.
Colour should look great Scottie (even though I'm in the 'green cars are bad luck' camp myself).
Your exhaust looks so 'factory fit' that nobody will guess how much skill and effort went into it, which is a shame.
Don't underestimate the importance of the sound a car makes - I was directing traffic at a road closure yesterday when an F Type coupe came past. First impression is Wow! it looks great and much smaller than I expected. But when it took off up the road the sound it made was just awesome - a smooth roar with a fiery crackle on the overrun. Nice. Much as I dislike automatics I think I could be persuaded.
Now, I need to check my lottery numbers - there's a UK winner of around £70,000,000 last night...
