Date:         Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:45:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark McCulley <raven@HALCYON.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Mark McCulley <raven@HALCYON.COM>
Subject:      Re: update on Stebro stainless exhaust
Comments: To: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.COM>, Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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At 09:56 AM 6/22/98 -0700, Ari Ollikainen wrote:
>At 9:50 AM 6/22/98, Mark McCulley wrote:
>        [snip]
>>
>>The cost is $750 for the system, muffler (no cat) and all hardware included.
>>Available for syncro as well as 2WD vanagons. I hope they get this out
>>before my exhaust disintegrates...
>>
>        So how many times do you expect to replace the whole exhaust system
>        during the (remaining) lifetime of your Vanagon?
If I buy the Stebro system, it will be the last one I would need to buy. I
plan to keep my van for at least another 10 years. The lifetime of other
aftermarket exhaust systems depends on the quality of the product which I
suspect varies widely. In the Pacific Northwest where I live, exhaust
systems rust like crazy. My current exhaust looks like a rusty hulk of metal
that washed up on an ocean beach. Besides being very ugly (exhaust is very
visible on syncros), it is so rusted that it will probably have to be cut
off when I replace it. Stebro has a reputation for making very high-quality
exhaust systems. Their Vanagon product _should_ be an improvement over the
OEM exhaust system, but that is still TBD.

MM