Available Exhausts?

[Vicleonardo1]

1+ with Scoob. Aside from the very cool KW header, the rest done at a reputable shop may not as expensive as you think. 

[Son of Marty]

This won't be popular, but with the mods on your stock engine with a 38/38 weber your throwing away both money and horsepower with a header, the stock manifold desmoged and the stock down pipe will be fine until you go to at least a 292 cam and duel side drafts then a header starts to make some sense, 

[tech71]

I considered a header at first but with the modest engine build I am doing it was not really worth the aggravation and the IE stainless late model exhaust had been out of stock forever so,

Going with a Tii exhaust manifold, stainless down pipe and genuine BMW exhaust.

When the non sport Ansa exhaust comes out will probably try to give it away. 

[71roundie67mgb65spitfire]

1 hour ago, Son of Marty said:

This won't be popular, but with the mods on your stock engine with a 38/38 weber your throwing away both money and horsepower with a header, the stock manifold desmoged and the stock down pipe will be fine until you go to at least a 292 cam and duel side drafts then a header starts to make some sense, 

I understand what you are saying, but I'm not really looking for power gains, just a nicer sound. 

 

[71roundie67mgb65spitfire]

57 minutes ago, tech71 said:

I considered a header at first but with the modest engine build I am doing it was not really worth the aggravation and the IE stainless late model exhaust had been out of stock forever so,

Going with a Tii exhaust manifold, stainless down pipe and genuine BMW exhaust.

When the non sport Ansa exhaust comes out will probably try to give it away. 

You can buy the oe design non sport ansa right now. Rock auto and ebay both have them. I haven't heard much on how they compare to the oem exhaust, but I imagine it is comparable. 

[TVeye]

Flowmaster Super HP-2, NO resonator, 2" straight from the long tube Stahl.

$400 local shop for install, pipe and fittings, bung weld. $130 muffler.

[2002Scoob]

10 hours ago, 71roundie67mgb65spitfire said:

One consideration is that I need it to be relatively easy to remove. I will be swapping the transmission in a few months once I can get it on the lift. 

 

02 Exhausts are easy to handle compared to allot of vehicles I've owned. Using new, non-munged hardware is what's going to make it easier than anything. The individual parts are easily handled by one person. 

 

And I was half joking about the header, because yah, you don't REALLY need it. 

 

The science and experience says that the stock header flows really well and you likely don't need anything better...But that's not what most of us are after...

 

A rusty lump of cast iron just isn't all that sexy next to a bundle of stainless snakes that has been heat-tempered to all the colors of the rainbow, joined together with beautifully stacked welds, now is it?