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Exhaust Query

Post by gerry.laing » Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:28 pm

Having recently purchased an 85th anniversary model I was hoping someone could help identify the exhaust system fitted the car its not one that I have seen anywhere before,
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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by MrNatural » Sun Jul 09, 2017 10:03 am

Sorry Gerry, never seen one like this before. Have you asked the previous owner?

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by nigelandjo » Sun Jul 09, 2017 9:10 pm

A quick "Google" drew a blank too.
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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by gerry.laing » Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:02 pm

Hi
I purchased the the car from a local dealer who had taken it in px so unable to ask much about the the car, although its history confirmed it had been serviced locally by an mg specialist, and I have also tried the internet and drawn a blank

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by nigelandjo » Mon Jul 10, 2017 9:10 pm

Try writing to the previous owner ~ include an SAE, and if they're an enthusiast (which they must have been to own an 85th) they should hopefully respond with details.
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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Jul 12, 2017 2:16 pm

Just to say that I don't recognise this either? Have you any other pictures of this system?

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by BodgeItAndScarper » Wed Jul 12, 2017 2:44 pm

There appears to have been a company making bodykits etc for MGFs and TFs a few years back under the ATC - Racing Design Syndicate brand. Not a lot else to be found out about it online. Their website no longer seems to exist.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071022091 ... .html#MG-F

I guess that's it. Maybe Japanese F and TF enthusiasts might know more?

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by gerry.laing » Wed Jul 12, 2017 6:11 pm

Only took these quick photo's to try and find it on the net without success have not had not been able to get the car up on lifts as i'm still battling my hand injury 5 months on, but from what I can see its a stainless system and the car has far more torque and response than my 135 with the Z&F remap and pipercross pan filter and scorpion exhaust system. :?

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by daz » Wed Jul 12, 2017 6:20 pm

It may just be a custom exhaust, there's a place not far from here that custom build exhausts & there tail pipes have the company name on.

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by Rob Bell » Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:07 pm

BodgeItAndScarper wrote:There appears to have been a company making bodykits etc for MGFs and TFs a few years back under the ATC - Racing Design Syndicate brand. Not a lot else to be found out about it online. Their website no longer seems to exist.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071022091 ... .html#MG-F

I guess that's it. Maybe Japanese F and TF enthusiasts might know more?
Thanks for posting that - it brought such a wave of nostalgia! I remember looking at all these things back in 1999. Erikb has a nice round up of many of the aftermarket bodykit options that were then available (nearly 20 years ago now! GULP!)

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by BodgeItAndScarper » Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:16 pm

Rob Bell wrote:Thanks for posting that - it brought such a wave of nostalgia! I remember looking at all these things back in 1999. Erikb has a nice round up of many of the aftermarket bodykit options that were then available (nearly 20 years ago now! GULP!)
Wow, you've really been on MGFs a long time, no wonder you know everything! :)

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Re: Exhaust Query

Post by Rob Bell » Wed Jul 19, 2017 2:20 pm

:lol: Only seems like yesterday when I collected it from the dealership at the end of January, 1996... :D

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