Exhaust question...

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:03 pm

..excuse me if this sounds a strange question but it is a genuine one. Can someone please tell m the exact length of a TZD estate backbox from where it fits the other part of the exhaust to the end of the tailpipe (i.e tip to tail)?
Also can someone please tell me the bore of the pipe it fits on to?
Thanks in advance,

Post by **docchevron** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:55 am

Ya know, I've no idea Billy!

Although I do have an estate back box in stock if it's any good to you??

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:43 am

Cheers Doc, I think I have one somewhere if I can find it. It`s just I`ve been offered a quite tasty back box which is universal fitment and wanted to make sure it would line up/fit ok.

Stewart (oily!) · Post by **Stewart (oily!)** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:09 am

I think they are about four inches longer than standard hatch ones Billy, sounds like your project is coming along well.
Stewart

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:18 pm

Thanks Stewart, once my eyesight is better I`ll get cracking on at least the clean up and have the exhaust hangar welded.

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:37 pm

The bodge for the rear exhaust hanger is to bolt something through the floor that will support it in the right place. A spreader plate or something on the inside of the floor will make it less likely to pull through.

Doz · Post by **Doz** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:54 pm

That only works if you've got something left to bolt it to !!

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:44 pm

Sheet of corrugated iron laid on the floor should work

A serious point here - be careful of using a short exhaust pipe especially if you have holes in the structure and have children in the back. there is a risk that carbon monoxide fumes are drawn into the car - and it has been known for children to be killed by the fumes.

Post by **docchevron** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:56 am

jeremy wrote: and it has been known for children to be killed by the fumes.

hhmm, sounds like win / win to me!

You'd be hard pushed to get killed by diesel fumes though, getting cancer after years of exposure is common, but you'd have to be very unlucky to die from the old "hose pipe through the window" suicide trick with a diesel....

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:39 am

You're right - the cautionary tale comes from listening to a biography on Lord Harlech (who used to censor the british films in the early Carry On era) who was driving his family through the night in some posh car and who arrived to find he'd killed the child in the back.

I agree in this day of catalysts and diesels that even if you invest in a full tank you're more likely to die of old age or boredom than Carbon Monoxide if you stick a hose through the window as I believe a number of people have found but I'd still consider inhalation at the least unpleasant and at worst dangerous.

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:52 pm

Thanks Jeremy, hadn`t considered that. Certainly something to think about, another one of those things that I wouldn`t have considered without knowing.

Post by **docchevron** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:06 pm

Thats the great (or worst) thing about kids, it's easy to make more.....

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:25 pm

docchevron1472 wrote:Thats the great (or worst) thing about kids, it's easy to make more.....

Not when you`re married it bloody well isn`t

Post by **docchevron** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:37 am

Count yourself lucky Billy, I had a VERY narrow escape a while back. That would have really bu&&ered up the time I get to spend on cars and buses....handily she left it in Tesco's or somewhere and I escaped 18 years of hell! Praise the lord!