'86 8V Exhaust questions

[sukchew at cox-internet.com (Chuck Blue)]

You can have a socket made that will fit that header.Just have some ears put 
on it and put it together with springs and long bolts and you have the flex 
joint.You can have the pipe made to fit your pipe to the muffler.

ole blue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Collins" <scirocco@bill-collins.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 25, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: '86 8V Exhaust questions


>I have an '86 8V Scirocco with a header but no other exhaust system parts.
>
> So, I have a few questions:
>
> 1) Does this header http://www.bill-collins.net/scirocco/Header1.jpg 
> http://www.bill-collins.net/scirocco/Header2.jpg
> look like it would bolt up the the stock exhaust system? (if I had one!)
> (Is that the famous "Toilet Bowl" fitting?)
>
> 2) Any suggestions on where to get the rest of a street legal exhaust 
> system without paying a fortune?  (It won't have to pass a tailpipe 
> emissions test here in NC, but they might complain if the cat was missing)
>
> 3) Is there any sort of flex pipe in this system?
>
> I'm guessing I need:
> -downpipe
> -clamps to attach header to down pipe
> -cat converter
> -cat back system (I figure I can buy this new from any of the usual 
> vendors)
>
> I have the exhaust system (except for the manifold) from an '80 Rabbit, 
> and a complete '86 Jetta parts car, if there are any useful parts on 
> either of those.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
>
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