I have received quite a few emails from fellow 9-5 owners showing an intrest in my various sports exhausts & asking me if I can forward any info & a video clip or audio file of how it sounds.
I was quite shocked by the amount of intrest my exhausts have received, so I decided to upload a couple of videos to Youtube & add a page to my website with all the info & some pictures.
These are the beasts I used for my first go on The Black One! Two Magnex sports rear boxes with a 6 X 4 inch oval tailpipe.
Mounting brackets cost £25 each at my local motorfactors & are ones for a BMW 5 series, thats the only type I could find that had the mounting points in the correct place to fit the 9-5 without bending or cutting anything, a perfect fit for the 9-5's exhaust hangers, obviously the O/S one will require a couple of holes drilling in the boot floor to mount its bracket but thats no problem.
These Magnex rear boxes usually retail at around the £100 each mark at most motor factors & car accessory shops but I have seen them cheaper on various websites. One of mine was supplied by Motormaina & the other was found at Larkspeed in Leeds. Both came to less than £100. Fitting is dead easy, I used some lengths of 2.5 inch flexi pipe, not the nicest stuff to work with as it doesnt like being cut by hand, & it also doesnt like being crushed with exhaust clamps.
First thing on the agenda was to remove the rear box, trim the center pipe so a Y-piece would fit under the rear subframe. This was only ever going to be a trial fit to see if the noise level was going to be too high & if there might be any problems with the bigger boxes & tubing banging against the underside of the car, so it was pointless spending silly amounts of money on stainless tubing, bends & getting it all welded up if I wasnt happy with the end result. As it turned out I was more than happy! I intended to use the correct exhaust paste at the two joints but when I opened the tin it had gone off & was rock hard. I had some Loctite 518 left over from the sump clean & this did a great job of sealing the joints. So thats the flexi tube in place, sealed & clamped just need to hang the two rear boxes & line them up, then cut out the plastic bumper trim above the O/S one. |     |
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Yep, I liked that, they sounded lovely & didnt look to bad, a bit bulky though so now it was time to get serious, the tune up would require & 3 inch downpipe & a sports cat, no problem as Nev offered to sell me his JT one, so that was collected from the SOC National in Bath & fitted, then the center box was removed & replaced with a 3 inch stainless tube. I used the original Y-piece & got the lads at Powerflow in Telford to make up the bendy piece to finish off the center section for me.
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So that just left me with the horrible flexi tube (which had started to rust by now) & the bulky back boxes.
I managed to find a pair of brand new Cobra twin tailpipe rear boxes going cheap in Walsall, much smaller than the Magnex ones so I thought they would look better.
I bought them, then nipped over the road to MIJ Performance Exhausts & got them to make up the tubing to replace the flexi pipe, add some proper hangers & weld it all up for me. Top job they did of it too, I was very chuffed with their work.
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It wasnt long after the engine threw a wobbler & The Black One was parked up, the whole exhaust system was dropped & fitted to the silver Aero as it seemed such a waste to leave it sitting on the drive after all that hard work.....Plus the Aeros exhaust was blocked at the cat & needed replacing anyway.
Heres the complete system so you can see the JT downpipe & the great job MIJ did on the rear tubes & welds.
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