Date:         Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:18:13 -0800
Reply-To:     Kelly Bauman <bauman@ICAN.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Kelly Bauman <bauman@ICAN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Stainless Exhaust
Comments: To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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I think Ron and Joshua missed a major detail on this thread.  Stebro
guarantees the systems for life.  Presumably that means guarantee against
cracking as well as rusting.  Ron have you spoken with Stebro about
distributing their product?  Stebro have been selling exhaust systems in
Canada for a billion years.  I am sure they didn't get this far by dealing
crap.

My 2 cents worth.

Kelly Bauman
Delta, BC
'91 Westy

At 21:09 25-11-98 -0600, Joshua Van Tol wrote:
>>difference.  Especially considering that one of the main causes of failure
>>of the Vanagon exhaust is not rust, but stress cracks, and I don't know
>>whether stainless will solve this problem or not.  (If the system doesn't
>>rust, but instead cracks as soon as the stock system would have, then it
>>will not have been worth the extra money.
>
>Most types of stainless are more suceptable to cracks than mild steel. This
>is why stainless systems are usually VERY HEAVY, since they use thicker
>pipe to keep this from happening. This, and the expense, is why we don't
>see a lot of new cars with stainless exhaust, but they do exist, and will
>probably become more common as time goes on.