Stainless steel or upgraded exhaust for 2.0 EFi montego?

[fbm777]

Hi.

I know there was another thread on this many years ago, but I am wondering whether anyone has any tips on what is the best exhaust to buy or to upgrade to. Are there any good custom exhausts out there for the montego?

Does anyone do a stainless steel exhaust reasonably priced? I tried longlife but far too expensive for me. Is it possible to fabricate one yourself from off the shelf components and weld it together? I have a local welder who might do it. I looked at the motobuild one but not much info on it, whilst it is twice the price of a standard exhaust and only a stainless steel tip.

[Doctordiesel77]

You could make one up from off the shelf parts from either Demon Tweeks or ebay, if you planned it carefully it would clamp together rather than needing to be welded, only problem would be the downpipe, but that would be something your local welder could make up perhaps? I've never made one for Maestro/ Montego, but made one for a Diesel converted Range Rover years ago, it was fairly easy and seemed to work ok, I used silicon on the joints rather than cement, so it was easy to dismantle if it was to alter.. https://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/perfo...-exhaust-parts

[fbm777]

You could make one up from off the shelf parts from either Demon Tweeks or ebay, if you planned it carefully it would clamp together rather than needing to be welded, only problem would be the downpipe, but that would be something your local welder could make up perhaps? I've never made one for Maestro/ Montego, but made one for a Diesel converted Range Rover years ago, it was fairly easy and seemed to work ok, I used silicon on the joints rather than cement, so it was easy to dismantle if it was to alter.. https://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/perfo...-exhaust-parts

Would I be right in thinking that all you really need is some pieces of 42mm stainless steel tube, a tube bender, some clamps and some silencers and the usual exhaust fixings? Is there any particular type of silencer that is required for mid and rear sections?

[Doctordiesel77]

Would I be right in thinking that all you really need is some pieces of 42mm stainless steel tube, a tube bender, some clamps and some silencers and the usual exhaust fixings? Is there any particular type of silencer that is required for mid and rear sections?

I don't think there is anything too high tech about the silencers, I guess it depends on how quiet you'd like it to be, if you were making your own you could use thicker walled tube, which would do away with the slightly 'tinny' noise you sometimes get on cheaper stainless exhausts. I'd be tempted to use 1 3/4" tubing, the original exhaust always looked a bit mean for the size of the engine... ....it sounds like a pretty good plan to me.. you could use body exhaust hangers and clamps to fit them to exhaust, to save having to weld them on .....

[fbm777]

I don't think there is anything too high tech about the silencers, I guess it depends on how quiet you'd like it to be, if you were making your own you could use thicker walled tube, which would do away with the slightly 'tinny' noise you sometimes get on cheaper stainless exhausts. I'd be tempted to use 1 3/4" tubing, the original exhaust always looked a bit mean for the size of the engine... ....it sounds like a pretty good plan to me.. you could use body exhaust hangers and clamps to fit them to exhaust, to save having to weld them on .....

Looking at the sharp bends especially on the rear section, I doubt any average pipe bender is going to be able to bend pipe to that degree. I think it would require a specialist tool which I don't have. I think its going to require bespoke 45degree pipe connectors too or some such thing.