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Originally Posted by last fairlane
Hi all I forgot to say that when you got a Mk2 Zephyr the first thing was get a consul manifold (walking stick) and use your Zephyr one and cut it in half and then cut a bit off the Consul one then use your Zephyr down pipe and one Consul downpipe and you ended up with a set of headers (exctractors)
and the Bling back then was to find a Wolseley 2480 and grab the head light covers ( the eyebrow ones)
One more thing I had a red stop light in the back window of my Mk2 back in the 60s and was told by the cops to take it out as it was illegal to have an odd number of lights front or back dont know how Rovers got on
thanks John
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Would never have thought of doing that. Mine must have been a Christmas-rush build, as after a few years it started to leak at the curved ports on the hockey stick mild steel pipe.
When it still leaked after pulling it off half-a-dozen times with the bolts holding the stick to the downpipe warped from the heat (at least their nuts were brass), and the bloody exhaust-heated inlet manifold and fuel pipe having to come off each time, and using absolute tubes of exhaust putty, in desperation I put a straight-through muffler on to reduce pressure, then finally a set of Sonic custom-made extractors and quieter muffler (I didn't want to spend money on a then-new hockey stick that could have the same issue). Waste of bloody time. Also fiddly to fit the aluminium spacer blocks to the curved head ports - more putty.
Had to bend the kickdown rod to clear the extractors, meaning that never worked right again. Took the car out down the length of Heathcote Rd and back - a distance of about 30 miles. Down on power and 57 mpg! So it was running hit-you-over-the-head lean + no heated inlet manifold. Rejetted the Zenith, but it never ran the way I liked.
Got a job in the city and left the Zephyr parked at my place and only drove it weekends. The extractors rotted after two years! (out of warranty, natch). Traded it on the XK with a proper cast exhaust manifold (which cracked years later, but was able to get it welded and fit it without taking the inlet manifold off as it was cast into the head, lol).