I have driven my '67 BJ8 thousands of miles and almost 10 years with a
"custom" exhaust system created by a local muffler shop. Stock headers to
standard flex-pipes to "glass pax" type mufflers to straight pipes to a
standard looking "kick-up" at the rear. Mufflers and pipes and tips all
coming down the left side of the car in the original position, but no turn
to run across the rump of the car for a RH exit. No popping and backfiring,
beautiful mellow sound, very close to what I remember from the originals
that I had in the sixties.
Gary Brierton
'67 BJ8 aka The Silver Bullet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Achim Spethmann" <hspethmann@t-online.de>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 7:28 AM
Subject: Exhaust question
> Just back from a trip to South England with some bad experience about
> the english weather and the height of the ferry ramps.
>
> When entering the ferry, my car hit the floor with the rear silencers
> and they were ripped off and seriously dented. I put it in the trunk and
> drove home with what was left under the car.
>
> With my car being a BJ8 MKIII I have an exhaust system with front and
> rear silencers and a very moderate sound and I was always jealous of
> hearing the Healeys with a straight exhaust system and only two front
> silencers.
>
> Now I'm thinking of fixing the exhaust system by adding two stright
> pipes at the rear end instead of the two silencers, but I'm not sure, if
> it could do any harm to the engine. Normaly the exhaust system is
> adjusted to the engine and perhaps the engine needs a certain counter
> pressure to work properly. This counterpressure my not be guaranteed by
> the remaining two front silencers of the four silencer system.
>
> Is there any experience about this matter?
>
> Achim, Germany
> 1964 BJ8
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