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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: addy on 29 January 2011, 09:08:55

Title: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: addy on 29 January 2011, 09:08:55
Hi can anyone tell me if this box from a N reg estate will fit a S reg saloon?  I bought it to go on my estate which is now off the road but my saloon has now started blowing on the same box same side.  Will it be too short to long or just not fit?

Eternal who I got it from. show this box as a saloon but the embossed (#17235) they say is for the estate.  Both are 2.5 V6 petrol, auto's.

Thanks for the help.

(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e331/Remingtonarmy/exhaust-1.jpg)
Title: Re: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: MutantCav on 29 January 2011, 12:16:24
Yes mate, mid boxes are the same assuming same sort of engine i.e. 2.0 to 2.0 or v6 to v6, Backbox is basically the same but the exhaust output is longer on an estate
Title: Re: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: addy on 29 January 2011, 18:15:27
Thank you for the quick reply, that is great it means that I don't have to sort another one out at the moment.
Title: Re: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: feeutfo on 30 January 2011, 04:24:24
Not sure it will tbh, pic shows my new exhaust for my old 3.2 saloon. The mid section fitted in the silencer is from a saloon obviously, the other mid section is for an estate delivered in error. It did NOT fit a saloon.

If they are interchangeable then my parts man told me the wrong info about the non fitting mid section being from an estate.......????
(http://i344.photobucket.com/albums/p326/chrisgixer/10092008167.jpg)
Title: Re: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: feeutfo on 30 January 2011, 05:33:44
More pics here http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rakaror.o.se/PictureOpelOmegaB2_5estate_024.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.rakaror.o.se/StainlesssteelexhaustOpel-pictures.htm&usg=___i_Pn9j0t2BE2QSyHAaNEzIvkeY=&h=356&w=600&sz=49&hl=en&start=36&zoom=1&tbnid=Dwoc-hA2ADYC8M:&tbnh=116&tbnw=195&ei=CvdETbHIKcuO4Qamro1K&prev=/images%3Fq%3Domega%2Bestate%2Bexhaust%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D981%26bih%3D632%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1621&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=656&vpy=1724&dur=3319&hovh=173&hovw=292&tx=206&ty=309&oei=-_ZETc7AAY2xhQfXrYi3AQ&esq=3&page=4&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:36&biw=981&bih=632


Look at the angle of the omega pipes entering the rear silencer, and the mid sections that fit into them. Estate and saloon are very differant.
Title: Re: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: 2woody on 31 January 2011, 17:48:01
not fitty.

did it only last weekend, the saloon centre sections exit right into the fuel tank on estate

sorry
Title: Re: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: andyc on 31 January 2011, 17:56:04
The saloon & Est are different as i found out the other week but wit an angle grinder and mig welder they will fit, heyi had two good centre boxes i wasn't going to buy any more


Andy
Title: Re: will a Centre exhaust box from estate fit saloon
Post by: mrjimbo on 02 February 2011, 05:51:57
 On Eternalcars website they show the "clam shell" type silencer on all their saloon centre sections and the old type cylindrical type silencer for the estate centre sections and having driven Omegas with both types of silencers the "clam shell" type have always seemed to be quieter than the "cylinder" type.

Now as my present exhaust is nearing the end of its life as the centre boxes and the rear box all have loose baffles in them what do i do?  buy another exhaust with "cylinder" type centre boxes which are never as quiet as the original GM system or go for the saloon centre sections from Eternalcar and graft the "clam shell" silencers to my existing system as the pipe work is still in good nick ?