MG MGB and MGB GT Tech Talk
I am starting to get sick of the straightpipe and it's only been 2 weeks on the road. I want to get something other than stock and have read that the Peco exhaust system seems to be good all around for performance, noise and cost. Where is the best place to get one? And by best i mean cheapest. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Al
If you are not set on a Peco system. Just go to a local muffler shop.
They can make up a good free flowing muffler system that will be less than a Peco system and you should not have to install it.
I had a Peco muffler and the local shop here in Northern CA only charged me $80 to fab up a pipe, connect it to the manifold and put a stainless steel tip on the muffler. It sits very high under the body so I don't even have draging problems unless I go over a monster speed bump
think about shipping costs. these are oversize cartons and carry a penalty in shipping.
Header and two glass packs. Great ground clearance. Muffler shop fabricated. I think my worn out door/window seals create more noise.
For cheapest, I can't say. Are you ready to deal with whether your intake manifold has the same flange spacing as the peco header? Some do, some don't, no expert I know can predict which.
Which, I suppose I'm asking is, are you going to put it in, so as to save the muffler shop bucks? Which is also okay, if you can weld up some little spacers with washers. Which, I guess, is all I'm asking.
I made my own with a piece of pipe that was already bent, I just added a couple extensions, did a little more bending, clamped on a tractor muffler to the rear, and now she screams. By the way, the tractor muffler is made like a glass pack without the packing...it has little baffles in it which direct exhaust into a hollow chamber, creates a really neat crackle when you punch and get above 4500, cruise is a little noisy, but I am young, so I gotta enjoy it while I can! I will probably have a muffler shop do my next one with a single free flow muffler in the rear if I can find someone good around here...
Hurst
I have a BRAND NEW Peco header for sale. Only $250, plus shipping from Wisconsin zip code 53083.
Regards,
Michael
Peco is great and I have one on the 73 but when it goes I am just heading an old school muffler shop and let him loose on it.