Talking about the experience sharing of changing my car MINI into a middle-mounted double-exhaust!

First of all, I am actually a lazy person, basically a volunteer on the forum. In a blink of an eye, I have been in car home Forum for 10 years. During the period, I changed five cars and got a lot of very useful information about buying a car, using a car and maintaining it from the forum. I am really ashamed that I used to be a hand-in-hand party, so I changed my exhaust this time and wanted to share my experience with riders in need. ? Is the car a convertible F57? 1.5T, the legendary "limited" color, Caribbean blue, and rowing paddles. This match is really fragrant. After a period of honeymoon with the car, I began to dislike this kind of single row in the back row. The more I look at my ass, the uglier it gets. Is that what the original car's ass looks like? This convertible.

The more you look outside, the more fragrant you feel. Seeing a 2.0T mini on the road, I will pay more attention to the bottom of the car. So I began to understand the modified enclosure and exhaust. After a brief look, I found that the cost is a bit high. What I saw on the forum was basically to change JCW exhaust or Scorpio, and basically started with 2 W. For economically affordable men with old age and small age, money is still not available. So this idea can only be temporarily stored first. Until the recent epidemic, my wife was still in my hometown. I worked alone in Guangzhou and had more free time. I began to ponder the encirclement after the reform. So I began to understand that all kinds of salted fish were turned over. With the deepening of understanding, I found that changing 1.5T to double exhaust may lead to the loss of low torsion and * * * vibration, and I hesitated again. Then I found that the salted fish only changed the tail end, as shown below, and the single exhaust on the left was transferred to the middle by welding and became a double exhaust.

This waste gas is circled in the picture.

The appearance of this modification is no problem. I mainly pursue appearance and can meet my requirements. Moreover, this modification will not cause the problem of low torsional loss and vibration, and the cost is also very low. Exhaust only needs 500 yuan, surrounded by 2K, and it can be done within 3.5K K by manual estimation, but when it comes to cutting and welding the exhaust of the original car, I still can't bear to move the knife on the car and give up this plan. ? Later, I thought about whether I could directly replace the original 2.0T exhaust, but there was almost no such situation on the forum. I consulted the seller of salted fish, but some didn't know, and some said that the caliber was different, and it needed adapter or welding. So it's not impossible now. I know that I saw a driver on the forum who was also 1.5T dual exhaust, which was a Thunderbird brand. After consultation, this exhaust can be directly connected and installed in the original parking space, without any cutting and welding, as well as sound and shooting sound, and the price cost is not high, only over 2K. Take it decisively. ? After the encirclement, I bought brand-new domestic parts directly from the salted fish dealer. Fortunately, I'm in the auto parts base camp in Chen Tian Village, Guangzhou. Basically, these encirclement rings are delivered in Guangzhou, so I drove directly to the merchant warehouse to pull them back. The price is 2K, and the merchants are very enthusiastic and patiently answer all kinds of questions. Later, they helped me find the rear fog light of the car. (The original car had only one rear fog lamp, and JCW was surrounded by two rear fog lamps. If you want to have a good effect, you must add an extra plug to the rear fog lamp. ).? The following are the construction links

F57 without ass, wait for the original car to exhaust. The rear bumper looks quite thick.

Remove the exhaust from the original car and compare it with the exhaust from Thunderbird. The one above is Thunderbird, and the one below is the original factory. Thunderbird looked at this big caliber and was very excited.

A big problem was found after installing new exhaust. Thunderbird exhaust should be developed for F56, mine is F57. I guess it's because it strengthens the body. This chassis has several more reinforcing rods than F56, and the lower part of the middle exhaust is connected with screws. Two steel bars circled on the drawing. The exhaust of the original car will protrude upward at that position, avoiding the screws. Thunderbird doesn't have this structure. In this way, the screw position will be pushed to the exhaust, and none of the screws can be screwed on, so the nut must be cut off, otherwise it will collide with the exhaust when bumping, resulting in abnormal sound. The simpler scheme is not to install these two ribs, but I am worried that it will affect the strength of the car body, so I choose to install them. Master helped me add a few more gaskets and barely put them on.

Finish, exhaust and surround the upper body after. Total cost: exhaust 2200, back wall 2000, construction 700, two packs of Furong Wang 50. =4950。 ? At the moment of the fire, I felt that the money was spent too well. The exhaust has increased, not half past one. At the beginning, I stepped on the accelerator deeply, and there was a clap when shifting gears. I didn't expect this 1.5T displacement to have this effect. However, after all, the displacement is there. If the engine sound comes out at 5000 rpm, the exhaust sound will not sound so good. In fact, there are not many opportunities to exceed 5 thousand rpm, so it doesn't have much impact. This exhaust sound will really tempt you to step on the gas pedal deeply, feeling that the fuel consumption will go online in the future [hee hee]. ? Let's watch the film, take it with a mobile phone, I'm not very good at taking pictures. If the effect is not good, don't spray it.