Re: Exhaust upgrade/82 8v

[trnsfrma@ix.netcom.com (Shawn C. Meze)]

At 10:39 AM 6/4/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I have an 82 1.8l JH. The exhaust that was on the car when I bought it is still 
there, just 
>barely, though. There is all sorts of rumbling and popping between shifts, and 
when coasting 
>(especially bad while coasting downhill...) I obviously want a new exhaust, but 
with the condition
>that the rest of the car is in, I don't wanna spend a ton of cash...


The poping sounds your hearing is due to an exhaust leak. Oddly enough, air is 
getting INTO the system adding all the oxygen needed to finish burning the 
remaining fuel. pop-pop-pop-pop-crackle-pop... <info only>


>My question is this: What would the difference be with me getting a Techtonics 
(or similar) system
>or going to the local muffler shop (who does custom work) and asking him to hook 
up a 2" system
>from the header back, and installing a Super Flow or whatever (?) hi-flow 
muffler?


About $100. Well, im not exactly sure, but it wontr hurt to walk into a shop and 
ask them for a quote as well as finding out if they mandrel bend their systems or 
just use the ol' plumbers pipe bender tool. 


>On a non-Scirocco related note, hopefully this message is readable by all, I have 
taken to hitting
>return at the end of each line, so that it wraps around for you all. If anyone 
out there is using
>MS Outlook as their Email reader, please let me know how you got it to set line 
length to 80
>characters...
>
>Thanks in advance for all responses,


Everything looks good to me.

Shawn
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