[Shotimes] muffler shops and flex pipe

[Eric Keller]

Ron,
When you say "muffler shop" do you mean midas or
mineke?  That's all I have around here.  The problem
with the donut seal is that my cats were held to the
exhaust pipe with rust.  When I did the rod bearings,
that rust was lost forever.  The next time I floored
it, the donut joint seperated.  Now I have one of
those repair flanges on there, but there really isn't
a lot of metal left on the exhaust pipe flare to keep
it together.  I guess I could get that part replaced.

I have grandiose ideas about a custom resonator so
that I can have a dual exhaust.  As an engineering
project mostly.
Eric


--- Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:
> The Summit Turbos are fine. Sure, they may only last
> 2-3 years in the salt
> belt, but you can also spend $75 on a Dynomax
> muffler that also rusts out in
> 2-3 years. Nothing wrong with them. So what if you
> have to have them
> replaced every now & then? I had Thrush Turbos
> ($16/apiece, like the
> Summits) on my '99, and they were in fine shape
> after 1.5 years up here in
> Detroit. The car has been in Louisville for the last
> two years, but those
> mufflers are now 3.5 years old.
> 
> The trick is to get the biggest, fattest
> resonator/glasspack welded in that
> will fit, or even get a couple welded in that space
> (where the stock
> resonator is at). My former '95 had VERY cheap
> glasspacks for mufflers, but
> with a fat resonator I had NO rasp at all.
> 
> There's nothing "custom" about installing those
> mufflers on a SHO.....any
> muffler shop can do it. And basically, assuming you
> get a bigger resonator
> for $20-30, the labor for the resonator and muffler
> installation should be
> easily under $100. If not, shop around.
> 
> Don't need a 3" pipe. Others may disagree, but I
> agree on keeping the donut.
> You can buy a lot of $7 NAPA donuts for the cost of
> a flex pipe and getting
> it installed. Just make sure to get the correct
> donut:
> 
> FELPRO:	60641
> NAPA:		31372
> FORD:		E6DZ-5E241-A
> 
> Which is kind of a "cone" donut, and not a
> traditional exhaust donut.
> 
> You must have a Gen 1 with the downturned pipes? Any
> muffler shop can
> replicate that with pipe if you want. That is not
> "custom" work.
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Eric Keller
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:33 AM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] muffler shops and flex pipe
> 
> 
> I still have the stock mufflers on after 13 years,
> and
> they have finally started to rust through
> 
> I called the muffler shop today to set up an
> appointment to have them put on my Summit Turbos. 
> He
> wasn't happy about my choice of mufflers.  I picked
> them because the shoforum guys seem to like them,
> and
> they were so cheap I didn't have to think twice
> about
> it.  In fact, they were so cheap I might get another
> kind of muffler and forget about them.  I was just
> going to have the summits installed onto the stock
> tailpipe.
> 
> 
>   The muffler guy said they would be rusted in a
> year.
>  That only bothers me because I would have to talk
> to
> this guy next year.  I have had previous dealings
> with
> these guys, and they are competent.  Otherwise, I
> woulda hung up on the guy, he was a jerk.  They're
> the
> only people around that advertise custom muffler
> installation.  
> 
> He also seemed to think that a flex pipe would cause
> vibration, and recommended that I keep the donut
> seal
> and hope that it doesn't fall apart again.
>  
> 
> They advertise that they install 3" exhaust systems.
> 
> Is there a respectable purpose for such a thing, or
> do
> you just put one on your 1500cc honda to get that
> lovely buzzing sound?  
> 
> Should I junk the Summits and get a better muffler? 
> What muffler? Also, I was trying to find a 2 1/4
> tailpipe that bent down like the stock one, and
> didn't
> whistle or sound like a train.  Wooo-Wooo.
> 
> Eric "but I do like trains" Keller
> 
> 
> 
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