Harrison's Garage - XM and 440

[rob88h]

2 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

You can remove the nose cone

I saw this on YouTube from someone called Dailying XM. 

Looks novel. 
 

In the meantime the Volvo exhaust is sorted. 
This exhaust was brought to you by the letter P

The previous AutoDoc exhaust only lasted about 5 years, but the car did a fair bit of standing which exhausts never really like. Having fitted a pattern exhaust last time by myself on axle stands in the gravel I had vowed never to fit an exhaust again. So a garage fitted this.

It’s not a bad job but I’m not 100% happy as it knocks the body if you get the revs wrong or thump through the gears. I probably need new engine mounts and some bracket tweaking as the old exhaust didn’t knock quite so much. 

Also the tip wasn’t the best fit, but this photo sort of exaggerates it. 

[beko1987]

I once fitted a wrong centre section to my zx (was a 1.9td and I got a 1.9d part). Fitted it and a tiny edge of it hit the body in the exhaust tunnel 😂 

Drove around for a month with it droning away getting louder the faster I went until a mate welded up my 1.9td centre section and I could refit that!

Let it drone for a few days then see if you can spot a witness mark anywhere,  then smack the car/exhaust there? I did that after 2 weeks and it helped a bit