£180 for 6meters of stainless

[mattbibbey]

How does £180 for 6 meters of staight stainless 3" exhaust piping sound? Also does anyone have the facility to bend straight pipe to make an exhaust?

Thoughts...................

Matt

 

[Zed-the-red]

I think you need some very special equipment. There are one or two specialists who will make your exhaust. there is one in sheffield who made me a new system for the healey 3000. we used an etype box on that.
they are called ASCAR.

 

[pmac]

]How does £180 for 6 meters of staight stainless 3" exhaust piping sound?[/COLOR] Also does anyone have the facility to bend straight pipe to make an exhaust?

Thoughts...................

Matt

It will sound horrendously loud unless you incorporate some silencers in it..

 

[SeanDezart]

Classy scaffolding.

 

[samuri-240]

There is a place in the Manchester area that have quite abit of experience of making s/s systems for early Z's at a very good price, was going to take mine there to get one made to hook up to my Nismo but now going the DJR full system route.

 

[johnymd]

Sounds quite a lot when you can get a 3" stainless system for a Z custom made for just over £400 and that will include a silencer.

 

[Rob Gaskin]

My thoughts are that you are better buying a proven complete system from the cylinder head than a length of pipe.

Why stainless and why 3" ?

I have a mild steel GDS system on my car. I bought it secondhand 10 years ago so it's probably 12/13 years old now. It's fine, the manifold is not nice and shiny but that doesn't bother me.

3" seems big to me eek.

 

[RobZ32]

I have some 3" mild steel in my workshop you can have for £30 if you want to try making a test pipe. Then you can see how it works before paying big money to do it in SS. On a test pipe there is no need to pay for mandrel bends you can get away with cut and weld small wedge sections.

 

[Mr.F]

Just rediscovered the 240Z jig at Hayward & Scott, stainless exhaust fabricators - waiting for a price, but this item will be available soon along with the Z31 systems we used to get made with them (early and late versions from front pipe back...).

 

[malcolmpaul]

Hawleys Tyres & Exhaust, Sheffield, stainless system for my 240 from 6 branch back incorporating 2 boxes, £275 made and fitted, was 3 years ago though

 

[mattbibbey]

I have some 3" mild steel in my workshop you can have for £30 if you want to try making a test pipe. Then you can see how it works before paying big money to do it in SS. On a test pipe there is no need to pay for mandrel bends you can get away with cut and weld small wedge sections.

Yeah that'd be great...

 

[johnymd]

Disregard my previous post. Spoke to the said company today and it appears there prices have gone up by 50%. I was told he couldn't give me a price without looking but it wouldn't be less than £600 and he couldn't do it for some time as he was too busy. I'll talk to pipecraft and haywood & scott on Monday, or maybe Mike on Sunday about Haywoods.

I need to sort something out as at the moment it comes straight out of the turbos with no downpipe or exhaust. It doesn't sound too loud as is but it will need sorting for the next MOT.

 

[RobZ32]

The 3" mild steel tube I have has been on the workshop floor for some time so it has some surface rust yours for £20. As it is longer than my 300zx you would need to collect it but I am working away during the week so it would have to be on a week end. I live in Barwell Leicestershire and will not have internet access in the week for the rest of November.

 

[mattbibbey]

Ok Rob. Thanks very much. I'm in no hurry so I'd rather wait until next month if that's ok with you?

 

[RobZ32]

PM me if you want when ready

 

[Stevie P]

Hayward and Scott exhausts are superb, had them on Stags, RS2000, TR6 and HS Chevette, not cheap, but wonderful works of art.

Mick Hayward is a good friend of mine, sadly no longer with H&S, makes fantastic airboxes, fabrication, WHY?

Steve

 

[Wyn]

If you're in no rush you can have (FOC) my ol exhaust system from my 260
Think it's ss ?
I only want it atm as a pattern for the nice man to make a new system for mine
(when/ if I ever see it again lol )

 

[mattbibbey]

I feel I should clarify why I want a 3" exhaust pipe....

What I currently have is the old Janspeed with a 6 branchmanifold into 2 then into one. The exhaust pressure is quite high at the exit, enough to fling specks of carbon 10ft onto my garage door so by that I can assume that there is some back pressure that the car wouldn't lament being rid of. The next reason is the noise. I love the sound of that revvy six and at the Army camp where I am currently based, Abingdon Station nr Oxford, we have a large runway complex that a company pays to run track days on and we get 4 or 5 free places on it, so, I'd like to have a more tracky persona for the car. I'd be keeping the on I have on it now, as someone told me on here a while ago, you don't want a racy system on it for a long journey or blood will come out of your ears.. lol

 

[Rob Gaskin]

Boy-racer

 

[SeanDezart]

Mine is 2.5" - sounds fine, two silencer expansion boxes.