Cracked It

It's a year since I bought the 2000 off eBay and things have gone pretty smoothly. A few weeks back the exhaust started to blow somewhere around the downpipe gasket. Except it wasn't the downpipe gasket. As you can see it was a little more terminal than that. Fortunately I was able to source a replacement manifold. Funny thing is the Vitesse manifold cracked in exactly the same place during my ownership.