<VV> wrong muffler and other ramblings

[Ray Rodriguez III]

I think you may be right, it did seem to point out to the right a bit. 
Today I cut off the muffler and installed the very old, rusty, but not YET 
leaking hush thrush muffler I had on hand and everything looks and fits 
nicely.  This car is mostly for my fiance' to drive so we were going for 
quiet, but this temporary setup will hopefully give us a chance to see how a 
moderately noisy muffler sounds from inside the car... this way we know for 
sure if we really have to go to a "stock" type muffler for it to be 
reasonably quiet inside.  She'd actually like a bit of a throaty exhaust, 
but doesn't want to put up with the drone my noisy exhaust produces inside 
the car, particularly at highway speed.

Ray R.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Blackwell" <bryan at skiblack.com>
To: "Ray Rodriguez III" <vairguy at echoes.net>
Cc: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> wrong muffler and other ramblings


Hi Ray,

Be sure the crossover pipe is the same shape - a longer muffler makes me 
think it may have come off an FC, and FC crossovers point to the right a bit 
more than a car crossover.

--Bryan

On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Ray Rodriguez III wrote:

> Next up was to replace the shoddy exhaust I had pieced together out of 
> scraps with a nice "gently used" stock single exhaust I recently purchased 
> from a Corvair salvage place.  Based on the results I believe I brought 
> home a 1960 exhaust!  This would be my fault as I picked the exhaust from 
> the pile myself and not being very familiar with earlies didn't know what 
> to look for.  At any rate the muffler is too long and seems to want to set 
> itself in place to have the tailpipe come out through the rear grill... 
> thats why I figure it's a 1960 part.  Also the muffler has a bracket on 
> the back right above the tailpipe.  It's a shame because the muffler looks 
> just about brand new... I'll have to see what the inside looks like when I 
> take it off the y-pipe.