'67 SIMCA 1200S Bertone coupe progress

When I started this project I picked up an unused stainless exhaust on ebay for very much the right price. Looked well finished on the outside but doubts about the construction gradually surfaced. It's always been loud but it's a sports car after all. recently it's been popping and banging a lot. I know that coming off my drive it sometimes grounds on the camber of the road and worried I'd damaged it. Checking today, one of the two inlets from the original cast manifold had completely broken free along with the perforated tube going down into the silencer. Looking inside revealed what I was beginning to suspect.... There is absolutely nothing else inside it!
So , took the whole lot off along with the factory cast manifold and fitted the 4 branch manifold and oval silencer from my SIMCA 1000 Rallye 2 that's currently in bits for some work..... smoother than ever without all the odd sound effects. Photos show before & after and state of 'bargain' stainless exhaust.

Have been running it about with the 4 branch and Oval silencer from my Rallye 2 recently. Runs much better, quieter and smoother than with the previous exhaust, obviously needs some back pressure. Meanwhile I've welded the pipes back into the other exhaust and, after cutting the end off have filled it with what it never had from new.. some proper exhaust packing material.

Neat!

Do you have bits and pieces for making up earth leads and other electrical wiring? Not a tricky job at all when you've got a few bits, and it's nice to have new copper.

For earth leads I got a set of hydraulic crimpers. Not amazingly cheap, but incredibly useful.

Have now got it back on a full set of Revolution wheels. Minilites on rear in previous photos were spares from one of my track cars fitted while I got some tyres on the revos.

Ha! Orange over Green. You do like to stir controversy!

Brighter green certainly would have been an eye searing distraction from the lines of the car, exactly why I wouldn't choose a 2-tone for such a pretty shape, regardless of colour. Though you do now make me wonder about a dark medium green with orange so it's shape isn't lost in the darkness! Could almost imagine that on a '50's Mercury now.
Got to blind the cautious sheep SUV driver's properly.