I went on a bit of a road trip yesterday to collect some manifolds i was a bit dubious about......
I spotted this advert 'v8 block hugger manifolds £30 pair' and this seemed a rediculously cheap price for manifolds so i sent him an email expecting the price to be wrong but he confirmed the price was £30
So i arranged to collect them yesterday and it was going to be a 207 mile round trip and i thought it would be rude not to take to the mg for a blast before it's laid up for winter...
Anyway when i finally got there it was a really nice house in a small village and the bloke seemed sound and obviously not short of cash.
He then took me to his detached double garage and he opened the door and sitting there was a mint AC Cobra replica and he gave me the manfiolds i agreed to buy and they are the very expensive tubular block hugger manfiolds ;D and he then went onto say he had a full v8 large bore single silencer stainless steel exhaust system for an MGB and he said it's free if you can fit it in your car today as its in the way obviously i managed to get it in
When i got home my dad had a look at the manfiolds and he was sure they were stainless because of the welding (my dad works in metal fabrication) and sure enough when testing them with a magnet they are stainless i didn't think they were as there is a few rust marks on them but my dad said stainless can rust it just depends on what grade of stainless it is.
Anyhow i've just priced them up at a v8 conversion parts supplier at £320 ;D and i got the full exhaust system aswell so its got to be the best £30 i've ever spent....
Heres some pic's,
The only bits that don't look stainless are the join pipes from the manifolds as they are quite rusty but the rest is stainless and just needs a good clean.
My MG got filthly on the journey due to all the spray off wagons
I spotted this advert 'v8 block hugger manifolds £30 pair' and this seemed a rediculously cheap price for manifolds so i sent him an email expecting the price to be wrong but he confirmed the price was £30
So i arranged to collect them yesterday and it was going to be a 207 mile round trip and i thought it would be rude not to take to the mg for a blast before it's laid up for winter...
Anyway when i finally got there it was a really nice house in a small village and the bloke seemed sound and obviously not short of cash.
He then took me to his detached double garage and he opened the door and sitting there was a mint AC Cobra replica and he gave me the manfiolds i agreed to buy and they are the very expensive tubular block hugger manfiolds ;D and he then went onto say he had a full v8 large bore single silencer stainless steel exhaust system for an MGB and he said it's free if you can fit it in your car today as its in the way obviously i managed to get it in
When i got home my dad had a look at the manfiolds and he was sure they were stainless because of the welding (my dad works in metal fabrication) and sure enough when testing them with a magnet they are stainless i didn't think they were as there is a few rust marks on them but my dad said stainless can rust it just depends on what grade of stainless it is.
Anyhow i've just priced them up at a v8 conversion parts supplier at £320 ;D and i got the full exhaust system aswell so its got to be the best £30 i've ever spent....
Heres some pic's,
The only bits that don't look stainless are the join pipes from the manifolds as they are quite rusty but the rest is stainless and just needs a good clean.
My MG got filthly on the journey due to all the spray off wagons