Ford V8 exhaust pipes for '42 CMP

[david moore]

Jim
Thanks for info and pictures. I will probably buy in the parts and then get my local guy (as per Robin Craig) to do the chopping/welding/fitting. Mac's no longer seem to have these pipes in stock - but Early Ford Parts of Schenectady NY do - and I can pick up from there.

More questions though.....I understood that the standard US vehicles(left hand drive, as per Mac's parts) had the main manifold to muffler pipe going down the right hand side of the vehicle - opposite to the CMP. The illustrations in the Mac's manuals show it that way too - presumably this is all because the brake master cylinder is on the left hand side on the US vehicles?So....did your 91A-5245 pipe fit the left hand manifold or did the flange have to be cut off and remounted on the opposite hand so to speak? Maybe you went down the right hand side and moved the master cylinder?

Finally, did you get muffler 91A-5230?

Makes you realize how dumb the Brit War Office was to insist on right hand drive! All this reworking must have cost a lot of valuable time and money.

Cheers
David