My recollection is the same as Wills. I'd invest the money into blasting and hot coating your headers and down pipes.
bs Sent from my iPad On May 11, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Will Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi > or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
