[DeTomaso] Wilkinson's new GTS mufflers

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Laughably cheap is right, for headers -and- mufflers?  Wow.  I should 
sign up for a set right now.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 11/18/2011 6:12 PM, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, Lori and I flew to LA to meet with Hiroshi Miyata, a
> relatively new Pantera owner from Japan.   He and his wife flew to LA for
> two days (!) to spend one day touring the Pantera shops, and the other day
> going to Universal Studios.
>
> We got to see the first production set of Wilkinson's new GTS mufflers,
> installed on an L-model Pantera.   Unfortunately, Steve won't be producing
> these in what I would consider the 'proper' Pre-L/GT5/GT5-S style, but only with
> straight-out tips suitable for use with a big L-model bumper.   If you have
> one of those cars, you'll have to cut the tips off yourself, slice an angle
> out of them, then weld them back on.
>
> Having said that, the new mufflers looked great.   The outside diameter of
> the tips is a fair bit larger than the ANSA tips, and the inside diameter is
> MUCH larger, which will allow much, much better flow.
>
> Unfortunately, the car they were on had been disabled just a few minutes
> before I got there; Bill had yanked the carburetor and ignition system out of
> the car.   It had been running that morning.   Apparently the sound is
> more-or-less the same as the stock ANSA GTS system in terms of tone, and volume
> (which is to say, far from objectionably loud, but certainly not quiet
> either).
>
> Hiroshi posted some photos for me, which you can view here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/WilkinsonGTSMufflers
>
> This is a Japanese Yahoo page; clicking on each link will allow you to see
> a small-size version of the photo, and you can download the mega-mondo-size
> version (each one is about 6.5 mb).
>
> The price on these things will be laughably cheap.   They will be available
> in both standard steel, and stainless steel; the entire system (headers and
> mufflers) will be in the $800-something range for regular steel, and $
> 1000-something for stainless steel--considerably less expensive than regular ANSA
> mufflers alone.
>
> At some point he'll send a set to Dan Jones for dyno evaluation.   Stay
> tuned!
>
> Mike
>   
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