VW exhaust system

[Dale Schumacher]

JC Witnney and others have a stick on heat shield that goes up to about 2000

degrees F that you can stick to your fiberglass between the glass and the

muffler – should help – did mine.

[Royal]

If you are one of those wondering about EMPI 3487 fitting on a Daytona MiGi, it fits perfectly.  It took me a few hours (mostly getting the old rusted one off) and the 3487 had to be convinced to fit with a large 4ft wood clamp, but once installed, it really looks at home.  Lots of PB Blaster and I got lucky enough not to break any of the studs that go into the #2 & 4 cylinder engine studs.  Easily worth the $80+/- that I paid.  Sounds nice, slightly louder than a good stock VW muffler.  It sounds less VWery, without the normal VW wheezing sound.  Took MiGi for a long high speed ride to “cure” the high temp paint that I put on but did not notice that the engine ran any cooler than with the old muffler.  It does “sound” faster.

[newkitman]

Rollie,

I have a froze up 1600 dual port that I will tear down and rebuild to a 1641 for my TD. The 1600 uses a 85.5mm piston and 1641 uses a 87mm piston. You can go up to an 88mm piston without machining anything but I’m not sure about the new 88mm pistons today. Learning how to rebuild a VW engine is actually FUN. Really. I’d invest in two things. A Book titled “How To Rebuild an Air-cooled Volkswagen Engine that I’ve been using forever and get the BugMe video dvd Complete engine Rebuild. That’s Volume 3 in the series. I have all their DVDs. They are great to look at and very easy to follow. I recommen you do the rebuild yourself. And I too do not have a garage, carport or shop. I do everything either in the storage shed or the back yard. Good luck.

And if anyone needs to use a dvd from BugMe Video, let me know. I’ll let yopu borrow it.

Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The Shack

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