New Intermeccanica exhaust system

I spoke with Henry from Intermeccanica today, Henry said they will be manufacturing a new merged 1.5" system with heater boxes within the next month or so.
I was about to order a new system from BAS or CSP, but I think I'll wait and see what IM has come up with.

I'm going to drop into Henry's on Friday. Maybe he'll have one that I can take a picture of. If it's possible, I'll also take a few snaps of George's new toy. Going to ask him what it will cost to install a new top (gulp).
Ron

I stopped in at Henry's but he wasn't there. I did get a chance to look around a bit and did see the new exhaust that Henry was talking about. Henry had it mounted on their new IM demo. The exhaust is very, very nice. It closely resembles the BAS and CSP systems, but the mufflers that are mounted beside the valve covers look more like Quiet Packs, instead of the cylinder style found in the BAS/CSP systems. You would have to drop the mufflers to adust your valves with this system. I only looked at it for a few minutes or so, but it looked very impressive. Wonder what it costs?

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Henry sent the pictures below to me mid-December. He was going to ork with the header supplier to make them tuck up and under the rear better. He said this is the best flowing system he has tested on the dyno. I do not have the numbers. He also tested a factory 911 muffler and it was poor. I do not have the cost,

Nice exhaust system, but it isn't the one that I saw when at IM. The system I saw (on Henry's new demo) split into two pipes, went back under the push rod tubes and then turned and ran along side the valve covers and exited, in twin pipes, below the bumper. Looked like a CSP/BAS system...maybe it was? Interestingly, the exhaust system in the picture looks a lot like the system that I'm having fabricated. The only difference is I'm running only one muffler, a big Magnaflow, mine is 1 5/8 " instead of 1 1/2" ,and mine only has one tail pipe (3 " slash cut, stainless steel).
Ron

Any thought on using a motorcycle muffler (not the big ones) instead of those phat boy types. I had a harley muffler on my 56 healy more for ground clearance more than anything but I find the same clearance probs ona speedster with the valve adj. and scrapeing on driveways etc. Yes, it was loud but it drowned out the bad bearings in my transmission.
ed

I don't think I would buy the system in those pictures - you have to remove some of it to adjust the valves and it would add a lot of weight to the rear of the car. There are other proven exhaust systems that have neither drawback.

It looks like it would be a pain in the neck to drop the mufflers to adjust the valves. My one muffler sits in the same location, but I've flanged it on both sides for easy removal.
Ron