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Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:42 pm
by Mike Nel
I want to change the exhaust on the 200 to stainless.
Any suggestions what to do?
What not to do?
Which system?
Benefits?
Thanks
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:50 pm
by Martin de Jager
De graaf or Noizeboys.
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:00 pm
by Wave
If you are in CT then the best place to go is the guys @ Powerflow in Bellville, they really do top notch stuff!
Make sure you get a full turbo back system.
Ask for 76mm stainless
Benefits = quicker turbo spool up/reduced turbo lag, lower fuel consumption (as your CATS will now be out) and the turbo will last longer with lower EGTs.
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:48 pm
by Mad Manny
I fitted a 76mm De Graaf Stainless Steel Zorst to Fearless.
Ge'Off (Wave) was a great help.
However, a Diesel doesn't really need a Stainless Zorst as it is self oiling...
PS:
Go 76mm De Graaf & then have it mapped...
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:26 pm
by BushWacker
... looking back ... the folk that took out my middle expansion box, removed the whole (long) exhaust line and (unbeknown to me at the time) most probly ( carelessly) stretched/damaged my main undercarriage electrical harness.
I subsequently had ongoing electrical problems symptomised by non-starting, relay failures, engine cutting etc.
Eventually laborious arterial work on the harness, by a competent sparky, revealed broken electrical line breakages etc that were compromising the feed of current to the hot-plugs etc.
My conclusion : I should have monitored more closely the exhaust-work process and delegated the work to (real) specialists who knew what they were doing.
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:39 pm
by Mad Manny
Chas, there are no electrical points/wiring harnesses that can get carelessly damaged on modern well built vehicles.
In fact, we fitted the De Graaf to Fearless ourselves, a simply easy job.
But then Fearless is not a Land Rover where the logic of the layout resembles the logical layout of a plate of spaghetti, dropped on the restaurant floor...
...then the waiter steps in the mess....
...& slips, landing on it...
...shortly before an earthquake hits the seafront restaurant...
...causing a fire, which is dosed shortly after starting...
...by a Tsunami...
If a guy fitting an exhaust snarls your wiring harness, you either have the world's dumbest exhaust installer or the world's worst deigned vehicle...
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:12 pm
by BushWacker
… best I leave you be , in that world you believe in …
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:57 am
by HenriSteyn
Again, a good post goes sour very quickly.
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 8:03 am
by jakeslouw
Sometimes I'd like to smoke what BushWacker is clearly abusing.
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:47 am
by Ricof4e
Mike Nel wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:42 pm
I want to change the exhaust on the 200 to stainless.
Any suggestions what to do?
What not to do?
Which system?
Benefits?
Thanks
Mike, honest question: why do you want to change the exhaust system?
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 11:17 am
by jakeslouw
Ricoffy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:47 am
Mike, honest question: why do you want to change the exhaust system?
Cape Town. Probably rusted and FUBAR.
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:33 pm
by Mad Manny
Mike Nel has Elon Musk type money.
So, why not...?
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:06 pm
by Ricof4e
Mad Manny wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:33 pm
Mike Nel has Elon Musk type money.
So, why not...?
Let us then assume I am asking on behalf of us mere mortals...
@Mike, I am genuinely interested in why you want to switch to stainless steel?
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:16 pm
by Mike Nel
@Ricoffy
I want to go stainless because like Jakes said, we do live in CPT. And I have previously driven those horrible salt roads in Walvisbay in the rain.
And we are going to keep this car for ever and a day.
So I want to start doing some long term maintenance on it before I need to do it all at once.
Re: Aftermarket exhaust info needed
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:38 pm
by Ricof4e
Makes sense, thanks Mike.