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Pea Shooter to Thing thru der bumper
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:17 pm
by Kubelmann
I want to take a pea shooter and adapt it to a stock Thing for a low cost exhaust.
1. remove tail pipe receivers.
2. cover tail pipe receiver opening.
3. adapt and install tail pipe receiver to ends of stock pea shooter.
4. make a prototype tail pipe for others to copy.
5. perhaps this has been tried before.
Let me know.
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:22 pm
by germansupplyscott
i did it.
stock leistritz beetle muffler. i had a hammered thing muffler to use as a pattern. i used genuine tailpipes, lasercut the flanges for them, made outlet tubes and welded them to the muffler. i'll try to post some photos tomorrow or over the weekend.
i was going to make more of them but making the tailpipes was an issue. they are a very tight bend and i could not find a shop that had tooling to make the bends. i'm sure if i looked longer and harder i might find someone.
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:06 am
by Kubelmann
CIP1 has pictures of the various tail pipes including the Thing. I currently have a complete new stock 73 exhaust system if we need any measurement. Check these out:
http://www2.cip1.com/ProductDetails.asp ... D35183%2D1
A weld in kit to modify a pea shooter for a Thing would be a cool product. You could even sell it without tail pipes and have the buyer get there own from the above site or from another source. I look forward to seeing any pictures you share of your project with this.
Hey, I found these vanagon tail pipes for $17 new
http://www.eisparts.com/070251187A.html