[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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