DAMN Exhaust Clamp
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I have allways had trouble getting my maniflow downdraft and avonbar clamp to clamp well onto the turbo elbow.

I decided to attack it again today, and i cant do shit.

This has been blowing for over a year now and its really getting on my tits,

Any advice?

funny you should post this message up, i fitted the engine into the car for the first time today and connected upo the exhaust system, that clamp is a right bastard, i cant get my pasty hands in there to do it up tight, plus it rubs on the subframe so im gonna have to take it to a custom zaust place down the road to get them to bend it for me slightly. i can see the bloody clamp is gonna blow like yours does

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yeah the avonbar downpipe i have is 2", but when i fitted the downpipe and elbow off the car it fitted fine, i havnt used the standard metro clamp, i got mine from avonbar, which im thinking is made for the 2"???!

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Well I don't have any experiance with the Avonbar clamp, perhaps some one on here can confirm it's made for the 2" exhaust or you'll have to contact them.

If you're sure that it fitted OK off the car, then its going to be difficult to sugest why it doesn't fit on the car, apart from if the down pipe is fouling the subframe.

Remove the clamp and check how it all fits together, and I'm sure you'll sort it.

Edited by Gibbo on 30th Nov, 2003.

yeah i will take off the elbow and have a go at fitting it off the car again, right little buggers arent they

A-series power! 1972|1310|T3 turbo|Omega pistons|Cantre main strap|Orange clutch diaphragm|AP race plate|Comp pressure plate|Lightened steel flywheel|13-row oil cooler|Vernier duplex timing gear|Phase 2 Piper cam|Green air filter|Hi boost carb needle/spring|2"Stainless exhaust|3"Play mini stainless rear box|Jack Knight s/c 4spd gearbox|Jack Knight s/c drop gears|Silicon coolant hoses|Lumenition HT leads|GAZ lowered height shocks all round|Steel flip-front|Rear safety devices cage|Group 5 arches|6x12 deep dish Minilites|Surf blue/Old english white|