16 replies to this topic

[jack_marshall]

Im probably missing something so very obvious but...

The rc40 exhaust is stainless steel right... You can buy the section from the backbox to the tail pipe...

So how do you weld the stainless to non stainless steel?



*Confused*

[Miniman]

if im correct you dont have to weld or summit but ask a pro as im not lol

[Alburglar]

No welding required

[Jordie]

u use clamps.

Also the RC40 boxes are available in mild steel OR stainless steel, depending on how much u want to spend and where u get it from.

[Bungle]

one pipe is slightly smaller than the other

so push the smaller into the larger one and then put a clamp around the larger pipe and squash the 2 together

[Sprocket]

RC40 is mild steel, RC50 is stainless but the same type box. But it is more comonly and incorrectly termed the RC40

[The Matt]

RC40 is mild steel, RC50 is stainless but the same type box. But it is more comonly and incorrectly termed the RC40

:grin: never knew that! that'll be todays lesson learnt then!

[jack_marshall]

Ohhh ok :grin:

Cheers for that, this place really does rock :grin:

Am I right in thinking the rc40 is the best value for money for a standard 998?

Im sure that pea shooter isnt doing it much justice!

[TimS]

Thats funny that as i have a Stainless system but is stamped RC40!

[Jammy]

Yea, I've got a stainless steel RC40 on one of my minis, and a search on MiniSpares for RC50 brings up nothing.

[Sprocket]

I'm going back tothe late 90's here people. I have an old minispares catalogue and it clearly states that the stainles version is an RC50, to which I fitted one to our 1994 mayfair in 1998 . Clearly they have decided to drop this in favour of the RC40 name which was and still is the exhaust to be using whatever the tune of your engine. Not only this but the have started producing them in different tail pipes and center exit so are not one in the same but still termed RC40 Its now a name rather than a specific exhaust.

[Sprocket]

Yea, I've got a stainless steel RC40 on one of my minis, and a search on MiniSpares for RC50 brings up nothing.

Not looking in the right place

Clicky

:cheese: :smartass:

[The Matt]

Looking at that, there is also a stainless RC40, maybe the RC50 is a different spec (larger bore or something). But I'd never even heard of the 50 til today anyway (so still a lesson learnt, thanks Minisprocket) :wink:

[Jammy]

Ahhh, I see, I was using MiniSpares who originally developed the exhaust. It makes sense that they use the RC40 name, since it the name that everyone knows and wants. I think the RC40 millenium may have replaced the RC50 looking at what MiniSpares call there stainless steel exhausts?

[Bungle]

when i bought my stainless steel exhause it was called a RC40 millenium :cheese: