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[baby-mechanic]

Hi Guys

I've only had a short time to check on previous posts, so apologies if I've missed this being discussed previously.

My wife drive a '97 Rover Cooper 1.3i, and had to have the front section of the exhaust replaced last year by A-GARAGE here on the Isle of Man. She has to drive over a short but high speed bump that has totally shredded the woven metal fibre part of the exhaust, thus creating a 'holed' exhaust, with the pipe in front of this showing major effects of being scraped.

A-GARAGE have put a new exhaust pipe on, and it's sitting even lower, and scraping on speed bumps the car cleared previously. A-GARAGE say that this is the only part now supplied to them for these Mini's, and the can't put any protection on as the exhaust would then become too stiff.

As A-GARAGE had sorted out a major exhaust-to-engine connection out the last time, (you can now tell the limit of my knowledge with this !), that's why we went back to them.

There are no other 'major' dealers here on the Island, so my question for all of you is where do you get your standard exhausts from, as my wife likes her Mini the way it is. (Not like last year when flames were coming out of the back, and the sound was great !!!!).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Baby-mechanic

Edited by baby-mechanic, 18 July 2007 - 09:25 PM.

[Se7enS1ns]

Have you tried Minispares - www.minispares.co.uk - obvious answer but you never know...

[Bungle]

a friend of mine had his flexy pipe go on his spi

he just bought a manaflow LCB injection manifold,it fitted better and higher up and gave a little more bhp

[taffy1967]

I'm sure I've read a similar post somewhere and a link was provided for the replacement of the woven metal fibre part of the exhaust. But I can't seem to locate it now and you just had to measure the size to know what type you required.

Anyway I'd go the Maniflow LCB and exhaust system route too, much less hassle in the long run and a very top quality exhaust too.

Well that's what has been fitted to my Mini for over a decade anyway.

[Bass Man]

You could tell her to slow down over speed humps......

My daughter has got dented footwells from the speed humps round here

[Sprocket]

If the bump is so big that its catching the original down pipe, id say either the car has been lowered or the bump is too big and id be seeking compensation from the council, that is, if there is no other way around it.

Bin the lot, fit a Maniflow LCB, a playmini cat link pipe, an adjustable engine steady bar, and the original exhaust mountings instead of the silly elastic band thingamys.

Fit the manifold, fit the link pipe, adjust the engine steady to tilt the engine forward just a little, and the exhaust manifold exit, up. Fit cat, fit back box and use jubilee clips to hold back box to the new original mountings, inplace of the rubber hangers.

Use of Mikalor clips for the exhaust clamps and jubilee clips for the hangers is far superior to those sh!te 'U' bolts that usualy end up with about half an inch of bolt protruding.

What this achieves is the whole exhaust sits a little higher, you do away with the troublesome flex joint.

You do need to fit the original exhaust mounts and new tiebar bushes to reduce the amount the exhaust moves preventing it cracking, if you dont the new manifold will crack.

I binned the maniflow link pipe with flex joint as it hung so low it was impossible to drive the car certain places. Tilting the engine forward a little helped imensely, the injection LCB seems to pont down for some reason.

I currently run a playmini 2" link pipe from the front to the back with the engine tilted forward, by about 12mm, clearance is excellent

Edited by Mini Sprocket, 19 July 2007 - 09:27 PM.

[yorkshirechris]

Lucky I haven't done any damage seeing as though I drive over 80 speed bumps a day. No exaggeration.

Then again I could've caused some damage I just dont know