Some pictures of the exhaust unmounted.

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What you’re seeing above is my third attempt at the exhaust for the V12. (tips weren’t welded) A good change from my mangled AC Schnitzer exhaust. (it’s for sale now). The system above started with just 4 pieces of cylindrical silencers. Sounds really great but was just way too loud.

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Then I had the end silencers removed and fitted the rectangular ones you see in the picture at the end. both Vertically fitted for clearance purposes. The rectangular muffler also had a restrictor fitted to further quiet it down.  Sounds More muffled but just doesn’t sound right. Looks real ugly too.

This time, the 3rd time visiting the shop, I got the rectangulars welded to the front, then the little cylindrical silencers, then the X-pipe and then the longer cylindricals. This time, i’m happy. More pictures and sound video to come :)

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Some specs of my custom exhaust:

  1. 2.5″ galvanized Pipes
  2. Stainless Steel Silencers
    • 2 x Rectangular muffler + Restrictor
    • 2 x Long cylindrical muffler
    • 2 x Short cylindrical muffler
  3. X-Pipe
  4. 2 x 4″ Tail pipes

Nothing like this of course.

Barry Meguiar and the 550i in Malaysia

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Here’s Meguiar’s CEO Barry Meguiar posing with my humble ride. It’s a real pleasure meeting the legend today especially having been a Meguiar’s die hard fan for years. He is here in Malaysia on a business tour along with his great team of Meguiar’s staff. Special thanks to Meguiar’s Distributor, Hypercoat for the media invitation. It’s a shame the car wasn’t detailed prior to this.

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Some Barry Meguiar related videos

Some pictures of my 550i V12 by Sugi from Indonesia

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Here’s some pictures from Sugi, a friend from Indonesia He was here to do some body kit shopping for his E34. He ends up returning home $500 poorer due to a mishap. He also had to cut part of the replica AC Schnitzer kit to be able to fly it back to Surabaya. These pictures were taken at KLCC by his friend Franky. thanks!

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Some Pictures of the 750i Auto transmission rebuild

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Here’s yet another installment of my project 550i V12. Though there were plans to bolt on a manual transmission, it has been temporarily shelved. This is due to the chronic slippage from the auto transmission a few days ago. Though it was already slipping when the car just came out of the shop, it was still drivable. The final straw came when some technician took it for a drive after correcting the wheel alignment. Anyways, here are some pictures of the disassembled 750i transmission. Look at the size of the torque converter..

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List of V12 powered cars. 750i and 850i included

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Found this on Wikipedia. Hope it may be useful for anyone researching on the V12 powerplant.

List of Post-1945 V12 Production Road Cars (Alphabetical by make, sub-sorted by year of introduction):

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