Anyone used it? Any opinions? For use by those of us who can't weld/can't find somewhere to do a stainless manifold-to-silencer pipe at reasonable price.

Alternatively, does anyone have equipment/know a place that can do a pipe at reasonable cost, nearish to Sevenoaks?

Cheers,

Simon
Jetex item U055150R


[Edited on 27/3/08 by Humbug]

i like the idea of this stuff, can't really understand how its gas tight though.
but yeah, it'll be good for reducing vibration between the engine and the rest of the exhaust sytem i guess

UUUrgh

Not nice and £29.....

Get the bends, cut neatly and join with masking tape I can weld for a couple of bottles of red wine. (No gaps allowed on the joins)

I live in Wadhurst so pretty close.

Regards Mark

I've used it. It's a fucker to cut and as it's coiled it's impossible to get a clean end on it. The other problem is you have to sleeve this over the manifold and silencer and clamp it, the problem is it doesn't really have any give in it and i ended up stripping clamp bolts rather than getting a good seal. You can't sleeve onto / over it if you see what i mean as again it's impossible to get a grip onto the coils.

Also once it's in place it tends to contract for some reason with movement and then is an absolute bastard to stretch open again. I had no end of trouble.

I would use it as a last resort to be honest.

ive used bits of it on my kitten and it doesnt like being close to the exhaust ports on a bike engine .they went brittle and started splitting after a few weeks, i too would rahter spend the extra time on welding bends together

Thanks for the replies - always I know I could rely on locosters for an opinion or two!

Mark - thanks for the offer. I may take you up on it.

Simon

[Edited on 27.03.2008 by Humbug]

I used the galvanised stuff as a "stop gap" while I got some stainless parts made up. After about 1000 miles it fell to pieces leaving me stranded with one silences haging off...

It works, but I wouldn't recomend it!

Mark

It also won't flow very well so will hit your potential power.

I'd invest in some bends and a some decent red wine

I used the mild stuff a few years back - it didn't last very long and was a bugger to get a good seal.

Gwan gwan gwan ... do it properly