Background


Of the many options and kits available we have chosen the South African Birkin - a kit which faithfully reproduces the beauty of Colin Chapman's original car and which you build up with component parts from the factory, adding in your choice of engine and transmission.



This holds true to the tradition of garden shed mechanics without requiring quite the level of welding skill, or CAD programming, that some of the amazing, home built clubman cars require. Or at least we hope not, as neither of us have done anything like this before.....



Monday, April 9, 2012

Exhaust System

Our exhaust was made for us at Meridian by Rob. We got an old muffler (from a truck I believe) and attached this to a catalytic converter supplied by Cateran. The cat has a californian spec mantel - presumably signed off by Arnie himself - and is euro 3 compliant. It's maybe overkill, but along with Pauls tuning skills, it contributed to us passing the IM240 first time. So there!









The flanges on the cat were angled as shown in the pictures, allowing the exhaust to pass neatly down the side of the car. Rob also welded on some bolts so a piece of rolled aluminium sheet could be attached as a heat shield. Finally, I lagged the collector with exhaust wrap so there are no exposed pipes which might upset Vic Roads come registration.
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