Date:         Sat, 23 Sep 2000 06:57:57 EDT
Reply-To:     RAlanen@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM>
Subject:      More STEBRO/Vanagon News
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       Actually this is bad news concerning the mufflers for the 1.9 litre
waterboxer engined Vanagons.  Thanks to List Member Eric Giroux who kindly
lent his 1984 Westy to STEBRO for the day yesterday to examine the
possibilities of mounting the current production STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless
Steel Muffler.  This muffler is about 6" too long to fit in the space.  The
solution may seem easy, just cut the muffler we have now 6" shorter.  This
will not work as the muffler will be too loud.  The engineer at STEBRO says
that the only proper way to have a muffler for this vehicle is to start again
at square one.  We need and original VW muffler for the 1.9 litre engine and
from that they will design a whole new muffler to fit the 1.9.  They are not
sure that this is a worthwhile endeavour as the 1.9 litre equipped Vanagons
are much less numerous than the 2.1 litre.  Also they think that the cost of
this muffler will be more than the current model they have for the 2.1 litre
       STEBRO wants me to do a small study to see what the sales
possibilities are.  So I'm asking all of you who might be interested in this
muffler to respond to me. Let me know if you would be interested in buying
one especially if it is more expensive than the $395 CND/$275 USD price for
the STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless Steel Muffler for the 2.1 litre waterboxer
engined Vanagons.  Any and all comments are welcome and this information will
be compiled and sent to STEBRO for their use in deciding what to do.

Cheers

Frank Condelli
'87 Westy & Lionel Trains
<A HREF="http://www.vanagon.com/">Vanagon List</A>, <A
HREF="http://www.bcn.net/~limbo/">LiMBO</A>, <A
HREF="http://www.westfalia.qc.ca/CIW_English.asp">IWCCC</A> & Capital City VW
Club member
Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service for the Ottawa Valley
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm">STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless
Steel Mufflers</A>
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html">Frank Condelli &
Associates</A> or http://frankcondelli.com