Re: URQ muffler (fwd)

[Rick Louie <rxlouie@uswest.com>]

Hooray for local muffler shops!  I had my all aluminized free flow exhaust on my
coupe done for $190, and priced a stainless for $350-$400 range.  Can't justify the
$800 for the Scorpion.


Dan Simoes wrote:

> Thought you might like to see this.  This confirms my belief
> that there is nothing a competent muffler shop can't
> do for 1/3 the price of a Scorpion.
>
> I suggested this shop since they are local to me, and when
> my 84 4kq resonator rusted off a few weeks ago, I had
> them cut it out and replace it with a section of pipe.
> Total cost - $50.   Some enterprising fellow (Graydon?)
> could hook up with such a place and make stainless performance
> exhausts for well under $500.
>
> | Dan |
>
> Forwarded message:
> >From rdg51@sprynet.com Thu Sep 11 17:28 EDT 1997
> From: rdg51@sprynet.com
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:26:40 -0700
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> Dan     Well you probably know by know that the 4 months I spent waiting for a
> muffler from Wachholz was for naught, as the "original stock" muffler was no
> such thing when he got it off the car, and he didn't even know it. I still have
> not received my money back or other parts due, they're "in the mail".
>
>         On a more positive note, I spent the day in the Buchanan public library,
> while the folks at Gallon Measure (Rom?) made me a new system.They dropped me at
> the library and picked me up when it was done. The work, including welding on a
> new resonator and complex twisted pipe, and the muffler plus extension came to
> $225. At that price it was hard to justify $800 for the stainless Scorpion
> system.
>
> `       Thanks for the advice, and help with Wachholz.
> Regards,
> Rob Greene



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