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My Stainless exhaust is similar to yours Matt.

my original bracket did not line up with the hole in the exhaust.
I made a new bracket with four holes instead of two and inside I glassed in a 5mm thick piece of aluminium with four tapped holes for the bolts to come in from the outside. Making the whole arrangement a lot stronger.
This then lined up with the exhaust hole and I bought an original hanger from one of the usual suspects.
For the front part of the rear silencer, I made a bracket from aluminium and used two Powerflex original "Mini" exhaust cotton reels to mount the exhaust to.
The original mounting had always bothered me. especially mounting that rear bracket to such thin fibreglass. In my case it was practically worn through and just about to break off. It's much stronger now and after 28 years of ownership I finally have an exhaust that does not wobble around.

Jeff 72+2

Hi Jeff,

That looks like a really good solution.

Thanks for sharing, I'll see how mine goes but it does make the odd rattle so will take a closer look at some point!

Matt.

Hi Jim, I recently splashed out on a Tony Thompson big bore SS system, looks and sounds amazing, is very well made, but does protrude a bit.

Hiya

Looks pretty good to me.

Berni

Supertrapp

No S2, Fred?

Quart Meg Miles wrote:No S2, Fred?

Not sure what you are asking. I'm just showing a pic of a Lotus with the Supertrapp muffler that I found online.

Fred Talmadge wrote:

Quart Meg Miles wrote:No S2, Fred?

Not sure what you are asking. I'm just showing a pic of a Lotus with the Supertrapp muffler that I found online.

I thought you might have treated yourself to it and traded in, that's all.

Quart Meg Miles wrote:

Fred Talmadge wrote:

Quart Meg Miles wrote:No S2, Fred?

Not sure what you are asking. I'm just showing a pic of a Lotus with the Supertrapp muffler that I found online.

I thought you might have treated yourself to it and traded in, that's all.

Still have my S2 just can't get a pic of it right now.

As I got this fixed I thought i would close out the thread with the result. I had her in with Chris Foulds for various TLC and he made a new bracket, polished the back of the box and fitted a shiny pipe. I like it

Looks good!

Mrs. Veg has suggested that she thinks that a silencer with dual slash-cut tips would look good on my car. I think it would as long as it was made that way and not a tacked-on accessory tip.

unless your car is a Corsa with a boombox in which case that will look fine