It's time to play Name That Part!

[jdubois]

Ok guys, what the heck is this part?

Give yourselves 1 point if you said "Exhaust Manifold". Otherwise, stop playing now /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif The extra credit question is: What the heck car is it from? It fits a Spit/Midget 1500 engine and the bottom flange has a hole pattern that matches the stud pattern on a catalyst from the newer cars. But the bottom flange points straight down instead of bending back at an angle, so the cat hits the frame on the Spitfire if you try to install.

The only two clues I've got are

1) The guy I got it from swears he took it off a '79 Spitfire. But unless there was a different style of cat out there, I don't see how this could be.

2) Somebody has suggested to me the "CHA 256" markings on it are an MG part number. But the only pictures I can find of Midget exhaust manifolds look like the Spit ones, with the bottom flange bending back.

 

[TRDejaVu]

It's an exhaust manifold (1 point taken) with the optional flux capacitor upgrade. This is a rarely known configuration that found some use on cars sold in tropical countries when they were used at elevations above the snow line.

What's that Grandma, head towards the light you say...

 

[roofman]

This is the rare canutant flex manifold from a Lamborgini diesel tractor, I'm just guessing here- say 1955. These were often used to choke the horsepower out of many LBC greats such as Hillman Minx, Triumph Acclaim, etc. Send my check to.........................................

Note the rare "lighthouse attachment" used to scare crows, and saskwatches from the fields. Worth .05 on ebay.

 

[MarkT]

A google search for CHA 256 and manifold gets one hit - a supplier in the northeast of England. Its listed as a manifold for a Midget (part 22 on the figure https://www.sportscarsupplies.com/diagram...sc=All%20Models ).

The casting shape looks right except for the random light-house thing on the top....surely a piece of random emmissions gear?

Mark

 

[jackag91]

I will take my one point and leave before I get a whammy.

 

[BOXoROCKS]

its a 1500 manifold,there were several types,the thingy is a EGR valve.

 

[jdubois]

A google search for CHA 256 and manifold gets one hit - a supplier in the northeast of England. Its listed as a manifold for a Midget (part 22 on the figure https://www.sportscarsupplies.com/diagram...sc=All%20Models ).

The casting shape looks right except for the random light-house thing on the top....surely a piece of random emmissions gear?

Mark

You're part of the conspiracy, aren't you? There is no part 22 on that figure (cue scary music). Yes, that light-house thing on the top is a (very, very broken) EGR valve.

It's clearly a 1500 manifold as BOXoROCKS points out. I think we can also surmise now that it's most likely for a Midget. Still would love to know the year and whether it was cat or non-cat. Maybe I'll try over in the MG forum. I don't have to get my MGB dusted off and put together to have permission to post over there, do I?

I think like TRDejaVu's answer the best, but if it's for use with the optional Flux Capacitor doesn't that make it a DMC part?

 

[MarkT]

You're part of the conspiracy, aren't you? There is no part 22 on that figure (cue scary music).

The men in the blacked-out Suburban with government plates will be there presently to pick it up....

 

[startech47]

It's a 79 Midget exhaust manifold.

 

[DNK]

You know, in my younger years, I think I smoke unmentionables thru something very similar.