Re: MK1 Exhaust - downpipe to catback piece missing!

[Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com>]

--- DAN <sciroccodriver@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok, besides my Knee being IMMOBILIZED and me being on
> perkodin, I have a problem.  My '79 MK1 which
> originally came without a Cat now has a dual downpipe
> from a jetta(thank to the junkyard.)  The car came 
> from Daun with a "cat back" pipe which *was* connected
> to the header I removed and replaced with said dual
> DP.  SO, I'm having problems finding a way to connect
> the dual downpipe's FLANGE to the cat-back's FLANGE. 
> I realize a CAT would solve this issue but I don't
> have one of those either and nobody LOCAL to me has
> been able to help.  Some locan muffler shops I visited
> didn't even have matching flanges in their stock for
> me to use.  Does anybody have any ideas?  Does anybody
> have an 8valve CAT they'd be willing to get out of
> their garage before it ends up in the garbage?  Thanks
> in advance and UMMMMMM perkodin!  :-)

Sounds like an interesting setup.  (I don't remember 'cuz I
never really had to get up under that car when I owned it)

Even if you do find a cat, will the flanges themselves line
up?  I just went through this crap on my '85 a couple weeks
ago.  Bleh, I *hate* exhaust work.


=====
Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
8 VWs & counting.
"I do have a cause though...  it is obscenity.  I'm for it" - Tom Lehrer.

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