Graham Hilder wrote:
We've got a 1750 GTV that needs to have its exhaust removed for repairs and
I just saw an auction come up on Trademe (the NZ local equivalent of Ebay)
for a used Shankle 4-into-2-into-1 extractors for a 2000 GTV.
Wonder please if anyone knows off-hand whether this would suit a standard
1750 road car?
Seems to me I remember reading - probably on this very Digest - that
neither Shankle nor anyone else had come up with exhaust headers that
worked better than the factory Euro pipes, and that the only reason to
fit non-factory ones would be to reduce weight, or in the case of a
racing car if the exhaust were to be re-routed. This was back when
Shankle and Alfa Ricambi were still in business and sending out
catalogs; I do remember that no specific power gain was claimed for the
headers, only some unquantified "free-flow" benefits.
I do think they were made to fit all the 105 engines, which I believe
sit at exactly the same place in the chassis whatever the body. So
neither match-up to the exhaust ports nor ground clearance should be an
issue.
Will Owen
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