Vintage Speed Stainless Vanagon J-Pipe replacment

[pete000]

Saw this in the vendor section and figured I would try one out. The quality is really good. Welds are excellent. Stainless seems a little thin compared to the other pipes, but seems very high quality. Came with all the mounting hardware and gaskets. Was pretty easy to put on and it lined up perfectly. Bus seems to like it...It is lighter than the cast iron elbow and J-Pipe combination. Less joints to leak too. Overall I'm impressed.

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1990 Vanagon RS 2.1
1967 Deluxe 21 window
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Koni Shocks
H & R Red Springs
Addco Sway Bars Front-Rear
18 X 7.5 and 18 X 8 OEM Porsche Wheels
Recaro Power-Heated seats

[buildyourown]

As someone who welds for a living, those welds actually look like they were done by someone who knew what they were doing.
Thats a rare thing on van exhausts.

[PDXWesty]

Where's the bung for the O2 sensor? I thought it was on the J pipe. Is it on the cat?

Nevermind. I see it. Looks like a nice replacement.
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89 Westy 2.1 Auto

[jberger]

Which vendor did you score this from?

[PDXWesty]

http://shop.vintagespeed.com.tw/s.nl/sc.12/category.3234/.f

Also has ads in the classifieds.
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89 Westy 2.1 Auto

[pete000]

I have a Small Car Performance SS 100 Cell CAT and SS muffler...
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1990 Vanagon RS 2.1
1967 Deluxe 21 window
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Koni Shocks
H & R Red Springs
Addco Sway Bars Front-Rear
18 X 7.5 and 18 X 8 OEM Porsche Wheels
Recaro Power-Heated seats

[whafalia]

My van badly needs some body/paint attention but that stainless steel exhaust tip could buy me another year,
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84 westie 2.2 w/ digijet, AT

[SCM]

I just put one of these on my van and am happy with it. It's fits great although I still have a small exhaust leak at the upstream end that I was hoping to eliminate. I plan to remove the SS pipe and file the flange of the OE pipes to make the mating surfaces flatter.

It could be my imagination but my butt cheek dyno tells me that I have just a little more oomph between 3k and 4k RPMs.

The sound is a little different. Less of a pulsing thump-thump-thump, and more of a humming, thumm-thumm-thumm. But, again, adding the pipe did eliminate/reduce an exhaust leak that I had.

I'll report back on MPG changes once I run through a couple tanks of gas.
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'91 Westfalia GL Automatic (GTA "Turbo" Rebuild w/Peloquin) and 2.3L GoWesty Engine

[MarkWard]

Get a tube of high temp copper silicone. Follow the directions. I attach my race card header to the head with only this, no gaskets. Coat your gasket and assemble. Should seal up fine.
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[shadetreemech]

[jlrftype7]

I have their SS Tail Pipe on my stock 1.9:exhaust. I got fed up with the tail pipe that came with the exhaust system kit rusting like crazy no matter what I did to it.
The last straw was when I removed it, sand blasted it to bare metal, painted high temp exhaust paint on it that was holding up fairly well in the rest of the exhaust, and the tail pipe rusted the same as before....
Day that I installed the Vintage Speed part.

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'68 Westy- my first VW and vehicle/Bus- long gone.- sold it to a traveling Swiss couple....
'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
2017 MINI Coopers, our current DDs
‘84 Tin Top - Hilga....Auto

[puchfinnland]

that pipe is beautiful, is the company still selling it?
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ABYC marine master technician , EX European auto technician, new business- EASTCOASTWEST , custom work on campers, only systems, no mechanical

[Yellow Rabbit]

I sure could use one of those tailpipes!

[jlrftype7]

[sphet]

[jlrftype7]