Date:         Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:37:12 -0800
Reply-To:     Ron Bloomquist <roadcow@MCN.ORG>
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From:         Ron Bloomquist <roadcow@MCN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: KEP URABUS Exhaust System Questions
Comments: To: Lawrence Johnson <larry_avery.johnson@SYMPATICO.CA>
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Hi Larry,

You ask:
Q.  "How did you avoid frying the plastic timing belt cover and alternator
pulley belt?"
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A.  I bought the complete conversion kit from Kennedy. One of the items
included in the kit is a sheet of galvanized tin that is installed
vertically between the "cat/muffler" and the plastic timing belt cover by
attaching it to the existing heat shield.  Any piece of tin would do but
Kennedy's was cut to shape and had instructions on how to install it.

And you ask:
Q.  "How did you fasten the Cat and Muffler to the engine?  ... what are
your thoughts on hanging the Cat and Muffler from the body and using a
flexible exhaust pipe section between the Cat and Header?"
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A.  I just welded up some angle iron; made a bracket that picked up an
available bolt on top of the engine head and also an exhaust stud under the
engine and then just triangulated these angle irons over over to the exhaust
pipe where it comes out of the muffler.  There I use a muffler clamp
attached to my angle iron to hold the exhaust pipe.  This way the muffler
and cat assembly moves with the engine.  Seems to work fine.  Attaching to
the body with a flex pipe might transmit engine and exhaust noise to the
body.

For more detail check my webpage and the link to Tom Myers webpage at:

http://www.mcn.org/b/roadcow/convert.html

Hope this helps,
Ron Bloomquist
ROADCOW
VANARU