stock muffler available? or aftermarket recos. Also rocker and A-pillar rust mitigation

Matt Hunt mhunt at ecin.net
Tue Sep 29 19:33:18 UTC 2020


I have our cars treated with Fluid Film every year and it works great. 
New England winters are no big deal now. Wish this stuff was around 20 
years ago with my first B13.

Matt


On 9/29/20 3:30 PM, John Heer wrote:
> Here's a link to an informative YouTube video done by a mechanic who 
> works a town over from me here in Northeast Ohio. He tests a bunch of 
> undercoatings that are available on the market. Not sure if that is 
> the type of product you are looking for or not.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXlhmbvdKBo
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> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 2:02 PM James McColl <james.mccoll at gmail.com 
> <mailto:james.mccoll at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Corrosion Free rustproofing is used by the Canadian military for
>     their vehicles. In their testing, Rustcheck was third, Krown
>     second, CF first.
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>     I wouldn't do it myself though. It's messy and the shop would have
>     the expertise and proper applicators to apply it properly without
>     missing areas.
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>     On Tuesday, 29 September 2020, David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com
>     <mailto:d.pertuz at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         Just got my car back with a new rack and new front end
>         (control arms with bushings, a/r bar bushings, end links,
>         strut mounts, replaced broken spring). I'm thrilled to drive
>         it again. But in all its sitting, the exhaust broke again. A
>         couple of years ago I finally repaired the damage from the cat
>         converter theft using a cat that Josh Palmer gave me. When
>         this was done, the joint between the midpipe and muffler was
>         too stuck to unbolt and the shop had to cut and weld. It's
>         this weld that is broken. Ideally, I'd have a shop make a new
>         midsection and I'd get a good used replacement OE muffler (I
>         don't want anything louder than stock). Backup choices would
>         be either new midpipe, weld flanges on that and muffler, keep
>         using muffler. Third would be aftermarket, but I absolutely do
>         *not* want a loud exhaust, and like the stock look. Anyone got
>         a muffler lying around?
>
>         Second: a year or two ago, rust finally started appearing on
>         my car in ways that weren't connected to water leaks. My car's
>         done amazingly well for a car that's been in the midwest for
>         21 years - rockers, wheel lips, etc. all clean as a whistle. I
>         have rust on the bottom of the trunk lid, below the license
>         plate, from a water leak through the lights that would collect
>         water at the flange. And a sunroof drain tube leak did some
>         hidden work on the drivers a pillar. Now I'm starting to see
>         bubbling on the left outer rocker, inside the door jamb on the
>         body below the upper hinge, and at the bottom of the jamb. I'd
>         like to coat the outside stuff with POR15 (and I'll paint and
>         spray the chassis before winter) but I'd also like to get
>         inside the rockers and jamb and spray the inside surfaces -
>         suggestions as to where to get in there?
>
>         David
>         Chicago
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