Imasaf exhaust quality?

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I may need a replacement exhaust on my 89 560sec and I have seen the Imasaf range appear on eBay.

The ad reads well, however as anyone got any real world experience with this brand? How was fit and quality ? Circa 50% of a genuine MB exhaust.

I can't find an eberspacher exhaust for my car online as they would be my first choice.

Cheers
Shirish
 
Never heard of them.

Genuine MB exhaust's for these are big money so I would be looking at a stainless steel custom copy.
 
Genuine MB is £1k for the mid and rear silencers (assuming mild steel)

Have emailed Profusion Customs nr Heathrow re a stainless equivalent. Just never been a fan of the sound of stainless, always made it sound more tinny in my experience
 
Mention your concerns about a tinny sound and see what they say... hopefully it'll be along the lines of "that's mostly because a stainless system can be made with thinner material, especially silencer skins, as rust isn't an issue" and they'll quote you accordingly i.e. not price it with the cheapest generic stainless boxes they've got kicking about
 
Profusion customs came in at approx £1500 + vat for the full system from downpipes back, so today i placed an order for the mid and rear Imasaf silencers as per the ebay link above. I'll update again once they've been fitted.
 
So I ordered the Imasaf setup as per the above link - parts arrived from Germany within 3 days which is pretty good. The guys at Bmerc think it's better quality than the usual walker/kwikfit offerings but proof will be in the fitting. Maybe aluminiumised steel but still hefty at 27kg for both items

Hopefully get it back early next week.



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Fitting was fine, although I still have a smell of fumes coming in when the windows are open so maybe the old system wasn't at fault! Contemplating their ' Y ' pipe too now.
 
Hey Shirish
Apologies for the 5 year thread resurrection - but I'm assuming you solved the exhaust fumes issue on the 560 in the end? I'm having the same problem with the 500 I ended up buying from Ian Keers and I'm wondering what fixed yours in the end? I don't remember noticing it when I test drove yours, that's for sure. The bodywork on mine has all been done now, so it cant be rear wheel arches, rear screen surround, fresh air vents behind the rear bumper, rear light gaskets (new from MB), boot rubber or wheel arch rubbers (all new , genuine from MB). I get the fumes with the windows open, or through the heater blower if the car's at a standstill. I'm running out of things to fix now and I'm thinking the exhaust system is the only remaining culprit. It's definitely old and leaky but it has just passed the MOT again so no major holes obviously. Given the cost of either stainless or aftermarket mild system, though, I'm reluctant to spend the money unless it the only remaining thing that could be causing it. I have also heard rumours of porous manifolds causing this problem, which are more expensive still. Yikes.

Have you got any ideas?

Kind regards and many thanks for your help
Niel
 
Ok Grover - thanks for that and I will take a look. Hopefully Shirish is still about and maybe he will chime in too with what fixed his
 
Unlikely; he was last seen on here June 2018.
 
Oh dear - there goes that plan then!
On which case - Grober - are you a believer in the “ancient rusty micro-porous manifold” theory (expensive to replace both manifolds but obviously I am happy to do that if necessary), or are you saying I should take apart then re-seal where the manifolds meet the down pipes?
Access is super-tight on first glance but I will have a proper look when I next have it on the ramp.
 
Really sorry guys - I have just realised that none of you have any idea who I am and I never introduced myself. So rude!
Right, so...
Hello. I'm Niel and I'm in North Devon. I've bought a 1987 500 SEC from a club member (not this club - the other club) about three years ago.
I've been working through it bit by bit with fairly limited success. The bodywork has been done (rust in every single one of the SEC's well known weak spots, full house) so it looks great on the outside.
There are various other issues that persist. Normally I work on my household's cars myself for 99% of whatever comes up. With the Mercedes I was in the middle of moving into and doing up an old house so I thought I would do the sensible thing and hand it over to professional mechanics for once, especially given that some aspects of how the engine is designed are quite complex (relative to my home-grown understanding, at any rate). Unfortunately that tactic didn't work. Two Independent MB specialists later, and my wallet is considerably lighter but the car remains unchanged. Lumpy idle, cruise control hunting, fumes in the cabin and a non-functioning AC. To be fair to the car, it remains a reliable daily driver despite that lot plus other minor bits and bobs. Oh, and fuse 15 has intermittently and randomly blown ever since it came back from the body shop. Neither I nor the local auto-electrician can trace the short despite quite a lot of searching so I have decided to live with it for now, and keep a large stash of white torpedo fuses in the coin tray in the hope that the problem will either spontaneously heal itself, or become persistent/predictable at some point in the future.

So I have decided to do it the tried-and-tested way - trawl the internet for information and if all else fails, chuck parts at it starting with the cheapest. It's worked for me in the past, and in retrospect, if I'd done that at the start I could have replaced just about every relay/solenoid/gizmo (including the ignition control module) under the bonnet with genuine from MB and it would still have been cheaper. Still - live and learn, all good, and you can't take it with you after all. If I can eliminated the fumes in the cabin then driving the car will be a lot more pleasant, I'll move on to the lumpy idle.

So - nice to meet you all many thanks for a very useful forum.
Niel
 
Oh dear - there goes that plan then!
On which case - Grober - are you a believer in the “ancient rusty micro-porous manifold” theory (expensive to replace both manifolds but obviously I am happy to do that if necessary), or are you saying I should take apart then re-seal where the manifolds meet the down pipes?
Access is super-tight on first glance but I will have a proper look when I next have it on the ramp.
its going to be a gasket/seal problem if its thats the problem.
 
Ok Grober - many thanks. I will take look and update as and when I hopefully get somewhere with it
 

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