Euro exhaust manifold/dp gasket available at dealer?

[peter at thescirocco.com (Peter)]

I just checked it, and the A1 euro DP gasket will not work.
The holes don't line up at all... 


Peter
http://thescirocco.com/

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-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces+peter=thescirocco.com@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+peter=thescirocco.com@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of
Mark F.
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:28 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Euro exhaust manifold/dp gasket available at dealer?

Anyone know if the euro (GTI) dual outlet exhaust manifold to downpipe
gasket is available at the dealerships here in NA?  I guess I'm asking if
the same gasket was used on another vehicle sold here...

I had a 'domino effect' day working on the 86 today - frustrating to say the
least...  I set out to simply swap my hollowed out cat with a 'temporary'
good cat borrowed from Cathy, so I can get my (only and
final) e-test done.  After having a bitch of a time removing those BASTARD
top flange bolts on both sides of the cat I proclaimed "Victory is mine!" a
bit too early - Cathy's cat was almost an inch longer, and the flanges were
much larger than the ones on the car. 
Damn...  Well no problem, I thought, I have remnants of about 10 exhaust
systems in the shop - I should be able to cobble together something...

After searching through my pile I couldn't find any flanges that matched the
new cat's, so I went to plan "B".  Screw the e-test, I'll talk to a friend
of a friend and pay the extra $ for a 'rubber e-test'...  So I picked out my
nicest spare TT race downpipe, found a new gasket, and set to work to remove
the TT 'shorty' downpipe.  Hmmm, those manifold studs look like 10mm...
Little did I know that the car had a Euro GTI exhaust manifold on it -
which, to my surprise, not only has the larger studs but the flange itself
is larger.  Back to the pile-o-parts, but no dice, all my spares have the
U.S. flange... 
Curse level 6 was promptly breached...

Next plan - remove the U.S. dual outlet exhaust manifold from my old ABA/JH
engine and swap it into the 86 so I can get this thing back on the road
today.  But NO, stymied yet again - I spotted two broken manifold to dp
studs...  There goes that plan - I'm in no mood to extract broken studs at
the moment, and that manifold has a small hairline crack in it anyways...

So, now I have a rather large pile of perfectly good exhaust parts in front
of me, but no workable solution to make them fit each other... 
And to make matters worse, I destroyed the euro mani/dp gasket when I
removed the downpipe, so I can't even put things back the way they were...

My plan now is to source a euro gasket, and cut and weld a section from the
euro-flanged shorty downpipe to one of my spare TT race
downpipes to adapt it to fit the euro manifold...    I know TT sells
the euro gasket, but it'll take a while for it to get to Canada, so
hopefully I can locate one quickly...  I'm a master at making something work
out of parts and pieces at hand, and many times have surprised even myself
with my Macgyver-like resourcefulness, but sometimes I have to admit defeat
I guess...  :(

Later,

Mark.
75
80 S
86
90 Audi Coupe Quattro - 10vt

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