Exhaust flange - Engineering Design Challenge for you Audifans tinkerers

[SJ]

From: <cobram at juno.com>

> I don't think the muffler shop wanted the job, find another one.
**** He did'nt have the right sized flange. He brought out what he had . .
.close but no cigar.

From
> what I understand from your post,  any muffler shop with a pipe bender
> should be able to put a flare on the pipe itself and fit a universal
> (multi- hole) flange to press it and hold it against the donut.  Worse
> case just put a reduction adapter in there and weld the pipe to the cat.
**** I dont want any shop doing the work for that very reason . .they weld
the hell out of everything. And whatever the hell they use for parts and
welding wire is specifically designed and spec'd to rust to nothing in 18
months or less.
BTDT
I just want a flange. There is nothing wrong with the downpipe flare. That
ole stainless steel downpipe is still A-OK.

SJ