You won't hurt the engine.
You may want to put an earlier style muffler on that will do the whole
job that the two sets were doing before.
On Jun 2, 2006, at 4:28 AM, Achim Spethmann wrote:
> 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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