Date:         Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:08:30 -0400
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <ron@NETCARRIER.COM>
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From:         The Bus Depot <ron@NETCARRIER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Looking for QUIET air cooled 2liter muffler
Comments: To: Puzerewski <Puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
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> The PO converted the stock exhaust to a header.  I purchased a bugpack
> muffler for it that bolts on the header via a triangular flange.  This
> muffler is not quiet at all!!!!
>
> Does anyone out there have info on a very quiet muffler?  I do not want to
> hear it at all.


You cannot buy an exhaust system for an aircooled Vanagon that you cannot
hear at all.  The closest will be the stock setup for this year, which runs
$299.95, plus $100 more for the catalytic (or about $30 if you want a bypass
pipe instead).  Second closest (and actually very close) will be the system
sold in the U.S. as a stock '72-74 system (but sold in Europe thru '83).
This system does not allow the use of a catalytic converter or EGR valve.
Runs $119.95 for non-stainless, or $189.95 for stainless. Both systems will
be notably quieter than a header/extractor system like you have now, and
will also outlast it by a huge margin.  No other system besides these two
will be notably quieter than what you have now.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  http://www.busdepot.com
  (215) 234-VWVW