On the workbench today…

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I think Renault were selling the entire system (minus manifold) for around £1200? If I’m correct, that’s about double the price of any aftermarket system today.

I wonder how many of us would pay that? I’d be tempted as the aftermarket ones seem louder and boomier.

 

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I think Renault were selling the entire system (minus manifold) for around £1200? If I’m correct, that’s about double the price of any aftermarket system today.

I wonder how many of us would pay that? I’d be tempted as the aftermarket ones seem louder and boomier.

The only aftermarket one I’ve considered is the PMS system, but do worry I’d feel a bit aging ‘boy racer’ with the noise at half a century….

I think if Renault still supplied the original item, I’d have no qualms about paying for one to keep the originality of the car. A little like our old Mini, which I swapped out a perfectly good RC40 aftermarket exhaust for a single box Maniflow item which is outwardly an exact replica of a 1960’s special tuning item. It looks & sounds wonderfully period correct.

 

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The only aftermarket one I’ve considered is the PMS system, but do worry I’d feel a bit aging ‘boy racer’ with the noise at half a century….

I think if Renault still supplied the original item, I’d have no qualms about paying for one to keep the originality of the car. A little like our old Mini, which I swapped out a perfectly good RC40 aftermarket exhaust for a single box Maniflow item which is outwardly an exact replica of a 1960’s special tuning item. It looks & sounds wonderfully period correct.

A few years back I spoke with the company (based in/near Dorset I recall) that makes the exhausts for PMS. They can make the system quieter by adding an additional box and/or reducing the pipe diameter in line with the original. If I went down this route, I might as well go to a local fabricator for a customer job - probably quicker and cheaper than going via PMS?

Period correct? Is this raspy, almost asthmatic sounding?

 

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Period correct? Is this raspy, almost asthmatic sounding?

Haha! I wouldn’t say asthmatic… with the overbore, headwork & twin SU’s running open long ram-pipes think more formula junior racecar.