Source for muffler

[richarda]

anybody know of a good source for muffler for 82? My cat is fine as is the small muffer, its the one in the center that needs replaced.

I know of a muffler shop in town that could get something that would work but I would prefer same as orginal.

thanks

[jp]

I got one last year from DiFatta Brothers

http://www.difatta.com/

[davidb]

TMK Di Fatta doesn't have center sections but call 'em anyway.
The used to have CISAM resonators w/angled tips. TMK Bruce
is out of ANSA [sedan] center sections he called "hockey sticks".
They were close to stock meaning the paint burns off w/i minutes.
They required flange welding for the CAT anyway. Obert used to
have resonators w/straight tips. He may have center sections.
So call around or do as J. Keller suggests & have one made @
your local muffler fab shop. These are getting hard to find . . .

[KeppelmanJ]

Got mine a few years ago from Chris Obert. Fit fine.

[SubGothius]

So call around or do as J. Keller suggests & have one made @ your local muffler fab shop. These are getting hard to find . . .

Speaking of which, Keller has often spoken highly of just having a cat-back system fabbed up by a local mom'n'pop shop, using a "bullet" style generic glasspack for the center/transverse section and perhaps a nice ANSA or similar resonator with tip(s) at the back (no front muffler between the cat and center). He says this gives a sporty but mellow exhaust note and may well cost less than a stock or Beta-spec'd afternarket system (e.g. $1275 for a Stebro system?!).

My car's PO wasn't happy with the stock exhaust at all, found it far too quiet and not nearly sporting enough for his tastes, so he got a FAZA system but still found that too quiet as well. He was experimenting with mix'n'matching stock and FAZA components by the time I got the car with only the FAZA middle section (appears to be a cylindrical glasspack) and a tuned tip, which was finally loud enough to hear but still not civilized enough, and I find it a bit too putt-putt tractory-sounding, myself.

I think I can find my old stock center section that came with the car when I bought it if you really want it, but it could well be a unit with 20+ years and 100k+ miles of use on it. IMHO, you'd do better to just replace the whole cat-back system now with a Keller-style system and be done with any further exhaust concerns.

[jp]

I did the glasspak set up a couple of years ago and it was just too loud. My neighbors were giving me dirty looks when I would get home, but oh boy on the highway it was nice!

[KeppelmanJ]

Now that the subject of sound has come up, and I should have thought to mention it myself, the Chris Obert version I bought is loud enough for me and has a nice distinctive euro sports-four sound unlike the various generic fours and after-market blat you're likely to hear on our streets today.

[Jim Keller]

The key is to have not just a glass pack, that muffles it a bit, but you must have a rear resonator as well to calm the exhaust note, otherwise, it blaps or raps and is too loud and/or obnoxious. I had the ANSA resonator, so the last one I did on my Coupe, pipes, hangers and glass pack plus custom bending and welding of all seams instead of clamps that scrape the ground only cost me $60 at our local mom/pop muffler and exhaust fabricating shop, and it only took about 45 minutes. Chain store exhaust/brake shops can not do this as they only deal with bolt on factory pre-bent stuff, they are not REAL exhaust shops, they don't even have pipe benders! just WalMart off shelf type, incapable of doing real automotive work outside the bolt on, Tuffy Muffler is the worse, hellishly high price and not available if it isn't a current common model

[ckeen74]

I just had a full system with two glasspacks installed on my sedan. It's pretty loud for a non-sportscar, so I'm going to try having my muffler guy spin the rear one around to make it a bit quieter. Keep in mind, one other appeal of the smaller "bullet"-type muffler is that it takes up less space, which means less scraping of the exhaust system and less chance for it to vibrate against the body.

[1,6 HF]

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