[DeTomaso] Techno Question: Pre-L mufflers and L Panteras

[Charles Engles]

Dear Mike,

        You wrote:

Short answer is that yes, it should be possible, but it might not match the other side when you’re done. 
$$$$   That did occur to me.......

Stock mufflers and small-diameter tailpipes are VERY restrictive.
$$$$    Right, but they bolt right up to my Big Bore Headers and a well known Pantera personality told me that they look better and sound better than the Big Bore exhausts, which I also have sitting on a shelf.   

 So many people have switched to more effective exhaust systems that there are hundreds of stock tailpipes just lying around. It shouldn’t be too difficult to just find what you want rather than hacking up something that isn’t right. Ask and ye shall likely receive.
$$$$   That is a good point.

But I think you would be better off just getting better exhausts.....
$$$$    I think I will wrestle with the smaller problem of a right exhaust replacement  rather than the larger proposition of a better exhaust.     ....and Gerry Romack has shown that the Ansa mufflers can be gutted and modified for less boom and a bit more HP.

                   Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles






-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Drew [mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2019 7:19 PM
To: Charles Engles
Cc: P - Mail List
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Techno Question: Pre-L mufflers and L Panteras

Chuck,

Short answer is that yes, it should be possible, but it might not match the other side when you’re done. 

Stock mufflers and small-diameter tailpipes are VERY restrictive. So many people have switched to more effective exhaust systems that there are hundreds of stock tailpipes just lying around. It shouldn’t be too difficult to just find what you want rather than hacking up something that isn’t right. Ask and ye shall likely receive.

But I think you would be better off just getting better exhausts.....

Mike

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> On Dec 2, 2019, at 17:03, Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>   Dear Forum,
> 
> 
>                I have acquired a NOS right exhaust.  It appears that the
>   muffler tips have a distinct upward pre-L angle.  I have a Pantera L.
> 
> 
>                Dumb question:  Is it a simple and reasonable task to
>   perform a bit of cutting and bending to modify a pre-L muffer angle to
>   a Pantera L straight muffler configuration?     It seems like some
>   judicious cutting bending and welding might do the trick.
> 
> 
> 
>                               Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
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