Tag: Exhaust

Family Album Treasures: Gigantic silencer on Skyline R30

Dunno what’s the story of this gigantic silencer, but it surely must have looked very impressive in the late 80s: Gigantic silencer on Skyline R30 That squatting pose reminds me a bit of Takumi and Istuki on an Initial D manga cover.




Exhaust like a bird

When I was looking for some bosozoku style videos I came across an exhaust builder who creates exhausts for vans and places videos of the exhausts he built on Youtube. This video is one of those exhausts: At first I thought it was only this video in which it sounded as a bird, but I…




Exhaust gasket repaired

Exhaust gasket got repaired last week. However it still leaks a tiny bit: the 4-2 header (made from cast iron) is bent a bit due to extensive heat and not completely pressing the gasket anymore. Also the 2-1 pipe has a small hole in it, so I’m currently sourcing one to pass the MOT, which…




Exhaust gasket arrived

Just got a call this morning: the exhaust gasket arrived already! Much quicker than I expected. 🙂 Going to collect them this afternoon right after work. It will be a quite a hike for me since I found my bike chained to another this morning and the dealer is quite far away from the railway…




Ordered new exhaust gasket

*Sigh* Always when you have plans for the weekend something will come up and the plans are being cancelled. 🙁 Yesterday drove to work and the Carina started to make some ticking noise on the highway. Couldn’t figure out what it was and it was only there when the engine was under stress. During lunchbreak…