Making/adapting exhaust system to fit?

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Ive got a Japanese import vehicle and am struggling to find the exhaust for it.

It's only the back part.

If I can't source one, do you think a garage could make/adapt the part?
 
Perhaps a good (old school) garage willing to help or otherwise an exhaust specialist or a classic car specialist, though they usually charge special prices too. Or try posting on one of the Japanese import forums.
 
Any garage/mechanic worth their salt should be able to do it. Whether or not they would want to or could be bothered is another thing.
You can buy lengths of exhaust pipe, boxes etc so it shouldn’t be a problem.
I once got a blacksmith to make up an exhaust for me.
 
Thanks both...I need to go find a decent garage nearby and see what they say
 
if you're going to the trouble of having one made, consider stainless steel. and for the fixing bolts of course. You need a stainless anti-seize lube on all threads and joints, not ordinary grease or copaslip. If you ever have a stainless bolt seize, you have to actually cut it apart, because it cold-welds on the thread.

I once saw a demo at one of these companies, a man with a single hydraulic pipe-pending machine worked from a diagram and made all the bends in next to no time.
 
JohnD said:
if you're going to the trouble of having one made, consider stainless steel. and for the fixing bolts of course. You need a stainless anti-seize lube on all threads and joints, not ordinary grease or copaslip. If you ever have a stainless bolt seize, you have to actually cut it apart, because it cold-welds on the thread.

I once saw a demo at one of these companies, a man with a single hydraulic pipe-pending machine worked from a diagram and made all the bends in next to no time.
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As others have said, yes, no problem with making your own. It might be an idea to cut open the remains of the existing box, to see how the baffles and perforated tubes (and any acoustic packing) are arranged. You might be able to adapt a silencer from a similarly-powered car. There are also various online sellers of exhaust components (tube bends, flexible tubes, silencers etc) that you can weld together yourself.
 
Burnerman said:
Which vehicle is it, Freddy?
Most seem to have helpful owners clubs - if the Mazda Bongo / Ford Friendee is anything to go by.
John :)
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It's a Daihatsu, but I can't find a forum in Uk that would be of any use.
Daihatsu have ceased in UK and this supposed contact page here will not send any request for help (looks like it has a 'deliberate' bug in it that says there's is an error on the submission, despite me going through it 20 times and checking it for issues)
https://www.daihatsu.co.uk/support/
All I wanted from them was the OEM numbers , just in case that helped locate the part.
It would help find an alternate but similar box?
Contacted the nearest 'dealer' of Daihatsu but they are a bit clueless.

If anyone knows how to contact Daihatsu (bit not via that web form that doesn't work), that would be appreciated
 
Copying a std exhaust should be easy for any exhaust co, I had a larger bore exhaust fitted to a car a while ago, but because I made sure that the largest box possible was fitted just behind the silencer, so it was almost standard for noise, but still sporty.
 
Mike13 said:
Copying a std exhaust should be easy for any exhaust co, I had a larger bore exhaust fitted to a car a while ago, but because I made sure that the largest box possible was fitted just behind the silencer, so it was almost standard for noise, but still sporty.
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Cheers Mike - I have something along those lines locally (as someone suggested above), just need to get out to them to let them look at the job. Still waiting to hear back from Daihatsu dealer (or used to be an official dealer and is listed on Daihatsu web site uk) to see if they have the part first , and then see what price that would be. If that draws a blank then I'm off to see what the other place says about making one up for me
 
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