Thanks. Will keep an eye out for such heads. For the meanwhile, I thing asbestos wrap on the new passthrough pipe should reduce excess hot
clay On Mar 29, 2012, at 7:40 PM, OK Don wrote: > OK. Your headers are mounted backwards compared to the others then, with > the exhaust exit in the front, where the cat mounts. Get a set of headers > from most any other iron M117 to have them at the rear end, reducing even > more the heat under the hood. The complete exhaust system (including > headers) from a '77 on 450SL should work nicely, if you can fid one > reasonably priced. > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:30 PM, clay monroe <redgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> She is a cali car. They got the beastly things a year early >> >> clay >> >> On Mar 29, 2012, at 4:47 PM, j...@windwireless.net wrote: >> >>>> Going to reduce hood temps when BiL and I cut out the cat and toss in a >>> straight pipe instead. >>> >>> Cat? Your 74 has a catastrophic converter? Thought that came in '75, >> both >>> it and '76 had >>> them underhood. '77+ moved them under the car. Running from memory >> here, >>> though. >>> >>> -- Jim >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > > -- > OK Don > 2001 ML320 > 1992 300D 2.5T > 1990 300D 2.5T > 1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
