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Date:         Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:50:17 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Ceramic Coat Catalytic Converter?
Comments: To: RAlanen@AOL.COM
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Frank! You're full of crap. I've been coating exhaust systems with Ceramic for about 4 years now and I've never had the report of a defect from my coatings process. No reports of rusty spots or ceramic material flaking off. Lots of these ceramic customers are local Porsche, Mustang, Firebird club members that I see many times during the year at club meetings and car shows. I do lots of coatings on motorcycle pipes and the coatings are easily inspected and my work has held up just fine. If you've had a problem it's because the material wasn't properly applied to a properly cleaned and prepared part. Now if you say somebody screwed you and did a crappy ceramic job for you I'll understand that. To just overall condemn all Ceramic Coatings on exhaust is just ignorance.

Stan Wilder Engine Ceramics 214-352-4931 www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Condelli" <RAlanen@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 5:35 AM Subject: Re: Ceramic Coat Catalytic Converter?

> In a message dated 16/11/2005 1:39:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes: > > Re: Ceramic Coat Catalytic Converter? > > > > STAINLEES STEEL is the only way to beat this exhaust loss problem. My > system on my '87 Westy is now over eight years old and still intact except for the > damn flanges that DANSK so unwisely put on their stainless steel header > pipes, another bright idea by imbeciles. I've fixed that now by getting CINTUBE > of Montreal to make up all the header pipes with stainless steel flanges. > I've got a garage full of those pipes now and have spent the better part of the > last eight years getting all the exhaust parts for all waterboxer engined > Vanagons in production. Now every part is available in stainless steel except > for the cast iron collector on the 2.1. CAT's are Stainless Steel bodied, > and cannot last a lifetime as the internals are wearing out as you drive. It's > a part that you will ALWAYS have to replace if you drive. The cast iron > collector on the 2.1s are still going to be cast iron and slowly rust away, > typically 10 ~ 15 years so we have to live with that. But, the header pipes, > J-pipes and muffler tail pipe assembly will be there long after your outta here > ! Yes, I know a lot of you feel that it's quite expensive but change your > system twice and you've just paid for a system that would have lasted you a > lifetime. See my _STEBRO/Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust System_ > (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm) wepage for complete details. Sorry for the > commercial but, really, if your keeping that Vanagon of yours for any long term > why would you fool around doing anything else ? We have enough other > projects on these vans to keep us busy ! > > Cheers, > > Frank Condelli > Almonte, Ontario, Canada > '87 Westy, '90 Carat, '87 Wolfsburg (Forsale) & Lionel Trains > Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley > _Frank Condelli & Associates_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html) > _Vanagon Stainless Steel Exhaust Systems_ > (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm) > _BusFusion_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm) a VW Camper > camping event, Almonte, ON, June 08 ~ 11, 2006


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