Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:05:39 -0700
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From: Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: WANTED: Aircooled Vanagon Exhaust parts
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Again - Get ahold the two places I mentioned in a previous post:
Derek @ Way Out Salvage in Kingston AR
http://www.wayoutsalvage.com/
479 665 4126
or
Jan Blair @ Blair & Sons, Phoenix, AZ
602 243 1238
And again, California & Federal Models are different on the left side.
The right side is the same box for either model. Since you have the
quad tip exhaust, my bet is that you have a Federal Model.
--
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
Full Timing Since March 1999
oldvolkshome@gmail.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Jason <uberhare@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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