Date:         Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:09:03 -0400
Reply-To:     Jason <uberhare@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jason <uberhare@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: WANTED: Aircooled Vanagon Exhaust parts
In-Reply-To:  <4E1379B5.4090209@colorado.edu>
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While on the subject...I'm looking for a left heaterbox for an 82
aircooled.  Normally I'd just buy a new one, but this van is for a 2
week trip then its forsale!

For the cross over pipe - I'd just weld one up.  If mine had the stock
setup on it I'd offer to make a template and produce them.
Unfortunelty it has the aftermarket quad tip system sans cat.

Jason


On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Richard A Jones <Jones@colorado.edu> wrote:
> Ken wrote:
>>
>> It's a 1982 Federal modeln wiuth new engine last year.  I'm starting
>> to think I may have to build my own piece(s).
>
> I have an '81 federal model.  I put a BusDepot system on it
> about 15 years ago with a cross-over pipe which was available
> then.
>
> But, later talking with Jeff at Boulder Muffler about things,
> he said I should have brought the old one to him--that he could
> fix it up.  My experience (with a couple) is that the cross-over
> pipe erodes from the inside out at the U turn.  The rest of it
> hangs on and on.
>
> Anyway, I bet he could take an old one, cut off the flanges,
> create a new pipe and make it look nice.  So maybe a good exhaust
> shop could do that for you.  There is a lot of talk of SS exhaust
> and problems with SS on the Subaru Vanagon list.  It is brittle
> and cracks too often.  I'd stick with softer steel.
>
> Good luck.  I'm glad you are keeping your '82 on the road.  The
> air-cooled Vanagons were the best of the (air-cooled) VW buses.
> I've owned them all over the last 47 years.
>
> Richard
>