[DeTomaso] Wilkinson's new GTS mufflers
Pantdino
pantdino at aol.com
Fri Nov 18 23:19:21 EST 2011
I don't see anything on his website about them.
Did I miss something?
-----Original Message-----
From: MikeLDrew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: DeTomaso <DeTomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 18, 2011 6:13 pm
Subject: [DeTomaso] Wilkinson's new GTS mufflers
Hi guys,
A couple of weeks ago, Lori and I flew to LA to meet with Hiroshi Miyata, a
elatively new Pantera owner from Japan. He and his wife flew to LA for
wo days (!) to spend one day touring the Pantera shops, and the other day
oing to Universal Studios.
We got to see the first production set of Wilkinson's new GTS mufflers,
nstalled on an L-model Pantera. Unfortunately, Steve won't be producing
hese 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
ne of those cars, you'll have to cut the tips off yourself, slice an angle
ut of them, then weld them back on.
Having said that, the new mufflers looked great. The outside diameter of
he tips is a fair bit larger than the ANSA tips, and the inside diameter is
UCH larger, which will allow much, much better flow.
Unfortunately, the car they were on had been disabled just a few minutes
efore I got there; Bill had yanked the carburetor and ignition system out of
he car. It had been running that morning. Apparently the sound is
ore-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
ither).
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
small-size version of the photo, and you can download the mega-mondo-size
ersion (each one is about 6.5 mb).
The price on these things will be laughably cheap. They will be available
n both standard steel, and stainless steel; the entire system (headers and
ufflers) will be in the $800-something range for regular steel, and $
000-something for stainless steel--considerably less expensive than regular
NSA
ufflers alone.
At some point he'll send a set to Dan Jones for dyno evaluation. Stay
uned!
Mike
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