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Hi chaps and chapesses,

Newbie owner, just bought a loverly 1985 1.9 water cooled pickup.

I have a few "issues" which I need to work through before I put "Bob" to work moving house and emptying gardens and garages!

Issue 1 - The exhaust!

Currently the old girl sounds like a V8.. VERY noisy. not only that its popping and banging on "over run". Sounds great, especially changing down the gears, but I'm pretty sure it isn;t helping either performance, econonmy, or the engines overall health!

Looking at the exhaust, I noticed quickly that there is a dirty great hole in it! This is where there "should" be a pipe linking the exhaust to the air intake.

So, until I have the confidence in the engine that I am willing to by an uprated exhaust (most of which appear to be without this factory fit hole!) I would like to know what the rest of you do! I had planned on getting some "flexible metal hose" from my local motorfactor, and reconnecting the hot air feed....

But 1) will that quiten the beast, stop the poppping and banging, and make it run better, 2) is there an alternative whcih will solve the problem with benifits I haven't thought of (I'm thinking of balnking the holes off at both ends ofthe connection??)

Thanks in advance

Adam.

Ah yes that will be the Pre Heat pipe work you will be talking about. All things being equal when using a replacement copy system it should have this feature fitted so it can be linked to your air intake.

As you well know this system is suppose to aid cold starts in lower temperatures ( and prevent the usual things like Flat spots, Hic Ups /Kangaroo petrol symptoms/ icing etc ,etc)

To answer your question regarding those of us who use after market systems ( mainly Stainless systems) we tend to either do away with the Pre Heat pipe work, OR if you are like me try to attach the Pre Heat pipes by other means, or run it as close as possible to a header pipe..


Regards,


Fritz,,,,,,,,,,,,,,