Steve

Yes they are compatible, obviously you need the associated downpipe I bought a Klarious one, although they seem to be cheap they are decent quality and were oem suppliers in my tenure at Rover Longbridge.

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If they needed to cut costs they would’ve been better off giving the bean counters the arse than cheapscating the product.
A race to the bottom is never a race you want to win………everyone but bastard bean counters understands that!

Believe me BMW were as bad if not worse, I designed a trscking system to track a vehicle build and store the data on an RF tag, this data stayed with the vehicle from the initial frame build to leaving the gates on a transporter, the dealers would be able to access the data for warranty claims etc, the cost of the RF tag permanently attached to the vehicle (Mini in this case) was 40 pence, it was thrown out due to cost, go figure?

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You are correct. "Project Drive" was a last ditch effort to keep manufacturing costs down, as far a rust proofing, etc, at a lot of processes were dropped due to cost, I saw this first hand, I was a Control Engineer for Rover for 16 years covering the 3 paintshops, in 2000 I was told O was a BMW employee and I had to move to Cowley, I refused the offer and went to work for a systems integrator retuning to "MGR" then ran by the phoenix 4 and was horrified the way that corners were being cut to make maximum profits from each vehicle, the dropping of hydrogas spheres was a commercial not an engineering decision Dunlop would not drop their costs, it was shame I watched decline first hand.

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368mm +-10mm @17°c so it will be higher in warmer weather no by much though.

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A piece of flatted plastic tube pushed over works well, it has for me, although there is a plastic update available cant provide a part number though.

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They were deleted as a cost save (horn and rear covers) "project drive" they ate not required imho.

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Ramps on the rear is the safest option

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Only pre cat on a Mk1 F, two - pre, and post cat on a Mk2 F and TF, so yours will only have one on the down pipe after the manifold.

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It might sound obvious and quite possibly not the cause but have you tried the fuel cut off switch is not popped 🤔

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"I've no intention to upset anyones feelings & I’ve no doubt there are others whose grasp of motoring history is well in advance of mine but every so often that old war wound itches & a good scratch helps."

Absolutely no offence taken, I too am sore at loosing 1. The best job I ever had at the hands of a foreign invester and 2. A great british company. I just like to set the record straight, yes the unions (a small percentage of the the employee's) drove the company down in the Seventies but equally post eighties was subject to nothing less than asset stripping in the eighties and nineties. I was always "Staff" albeit Control systems (Control Engineer) but always remember the work the track guys did, and boy did they work hard in increasingly difficult conditions, bought on by poor management, that of BMW mostly.

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