[Vwdiesel] new SS dual exhaust for my Jetta TD

[Area31 Research Facility]

Sandy,

I only saw one question.  I did nothing to the stock cast iron downpipe off
the turbo unit.  I used a stock stainless steel funnel (toilet bowl fitting)
and hogged out the hole a bit bigger after I welded my splitter section to
it with a die grinder.  I'm sure a larger setup here would help but the gas
is very hot here and the velocity is high so I think it has the ability to
breath fairly well despite the smallish size.  When the gas has cooled and
slowed down in all that small piping later on in the stock system is where
it would get really restrictive IMO.

You are lucky you didn't damage the car rolling it over.  I actually had
bought a NA 1.6 D Jetta back in Y2K for the engine to build a genset.  The
car was in good shape and in retrospect maybe I should have put it on the
road.  All I wanted was the engine which I didn't get to try until this year
with unsatisfactory results.  My point is, I have a large Hough wheeled
loader and I was using it to move and lift the car in the yard.  Wherever I
touched this big , seriously heavy yard machine to the wimpy light gauge car
it crumpled or broke with ease.  It was funny, and a lesson learned.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Cameron" <scameron at compmore.net>
To: "Area31 Research Facility" <stephensrw at stn.net>; <vwdiesel at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] new SS dual exhaust for my Jetta TD


> At 01:41 PM 7/1/05 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >This was a very horrible job and my poor body needs to heal.  Burns, cuts
> >and bruises.  It would be soooo nice to own a hoist!  I went stainless
> >because I NEVER want to have to fabricate another custom dual exhaust
system
> >for this car ever!!!!!!  Around here a normal steel exhaust system lasts
> >maybe two years with all the salt they put on the roads.
> >
>
> 2 questions.
>
> 1..How did you deal with the down-casting from the turbo to open it up?
It's
> pretty chokey
>
> 2.. I have heard of someone making a sort of a "roll cage" that one could
> drive a car on to, then roll it up on it's side. I think there were
supports
> that bolted to a couple of wheel studs on the low side, and probably chain
> restraints on the high side to keep it attached.
>
> Someone with your fertile imagination and skill with a torch might be able
> to fabricate it out of 2" water pipe and angle iron.
>
> I once had to repair the fuel tank (gas) on my wife's rabbit. This
required
> dropping the rear axel. I took out the battery and slid a couple of planks
> under it, laid an old mattress on the ground beside it, and flipped it on
> it's drivers side on the mattress with the bucket of my B-in-L's tractor..
>
> Dropping the axel and R&R of the tank was a no bend or squat job. I would
> like to be able to do this with my Jettas.
>
>  I have seen locally, a form of outdoor ramp-hoist that you drive up the
> ramps and it tilts level about 5' from the g
>
> Sandy
>
>