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wbrown45
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Bugpack used to make 1 3/8" flanges that should work. I think I saw them on Cip1's site also. Are the tips smaller than that?
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Ok I have what i was told to be a stock 73 thing exhaust. it has to flange on the sides for the exhaust tips. I cant find the correct ones anywhere. The flanges are very small and the ones I have found are slip ons. Can anyone help me?
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DannyK
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I installed the polished Thing Shop split exhaust system on my '74 a couple weeks ago. It fit well and looks great. It sounds good, quiet, but with a liitle purr and rumble. I can feel more power and the motor revs easier. I had the S & S header with twin pipes before, which makes little since. One collector and then bolting on two mufflers and routing forward and the back again? Why ? Next, I had removed the twin S & S mufflers and rewelded a bug glass pack to fit the header and that was a big improvement in flow and weight savings. The polished Split Thing Shop system is even better, It sounds, looks and performs great !
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Yarkle
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thanks! Ive been wavering back and forth between shelling out @200 for the cip1 74 exhaust, which i know will rust out in time, and dropping 400 for the thing shop exhaust, which is stainless steel.
Does the thign shop exhaust still have that kind of "brrrrrr...sound" to it? Not quite a beetle fweem , but still ACVW? |
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allansasson
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Ian,
how loud is the thing shop exhaust? |
I run one on my 74 with stock 1600 for the last 5 years and it is fairly quiet and gives great ground clearance as nothing hangs under the motor. |
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Yarkle
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Ian,
how loud is the thing shop exhaust? |
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Ian Epperson
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Does anyone have any idea on how much room The Thing Shop new system leaves for adjusting the valves?
Thanks.
Rob |
Answering a bit late, but I had almost that exact same system on my car for years. The mufflers get in the way of adjusting the valves, but I did learn how to do it with them in the way. I picked up a set of angled screwdrivers, but found that a dime was enough to hold the screw in place.
The system isn't an extractor system - it will not give you the additional power that the S&S system will. I went from an S&S header to that divided Thing shop header and lost a few HP.
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Thingamabob
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I have a Kymco 1 5/8 header with a hideaway muffler....fits good. I had to take off the bumper. After...I went to put the bumper on.....I had to do some work...
First- After the system is on..Heat up the exhaust at the collector end of the muffler and push down...slightly.
Then- Bend the bottom of the bumper up/ where it goes back under the car.
This is what I did! The guys at Kymco said it should work without any modifications.. 
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rrankin
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Does anyone have any idea on how much room The Thing Shop new system leaves for adjusting the valves?
Thanks.
Rob
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yellow73kubel
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I have been off-roading with the SoCal Bajas, and really apreciate the ground clearance and the Thing engine guards.
How much will I lose in clearance, if I replace the OE exhausts? |
If it is a Beetle header, I would live with the lower power. I used to have a header on my Thing. It left about 8 inches of ground clearance and stuck out 2in behind the bumper. Basically a horrible departure angle. Ended up backing into a small berm and smashing the exhaust towards the engine tin.
The Tri-Mil Thing exhaust has very good clearance, equal to the stock '74 exhaust. It almost tucks above the lowest point on the rear part of the body, and presents a much smaller profile widthwise. No performance difference compared to my header. If you want to visualize it, the can is 4in diameter and roughly 12in wide. Top of the can is just underneath the bumper, and the rearmost part is about in line with the frontmost part of the bumper. I think the can could do to be moved up some, but I no longer fear running it into the ground. |
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wbrown45
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I am really wanting to find the S&S Thing exhaust system. Does anybody know if this is still available in somebody's old stock or a stash somewhere?
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sam_w
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I have a OE German exhaust on my 73 Thingster, and it has the pea-shooter sized exhaust pipes and no coupling between the left and right sides. It really could do with more have power, and I do have a free-flow header in my parts stash.
I have been off-roading with the SoCal Bajas, and really apreciate the ground clearance and the Thing engine guards.
How much will I lose in clearance, if I replace the OE exhausts?
I am in Vegas right now and will measure my exhaust when I get back on Tuesday, but feel that the extra 5% oomph may not be worth it.
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I was surfing around and came across this stainless steel exhaust from the Thing Shop. I'd never seen it before. Comes raw or polished.
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mondshine
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Here's a quick writeup I did for the S&S system many years ago.
Regards, Mondshine
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just for a hint most of the websites on the posts are outdated and do not show any photo's or info any more...
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Well, I'd say this is a bit of an exaggeration. I just went through each thread above and found that the majority of the links to vendor web sites work just fine. Obviously, you can't expect any link to eBay or the Samba classifieds to remain current for long.
Yes, a few of these topics pre-date 2007, but the information in these old threads is still relevant, even if a few links and photos aren't showing up. Many of the "dead" links still lead you to a vendor website where you can search for the part you're looking for.
I also found that quite a few of the missing photos are reposts, or are in quotes. As far as I can tell, there is at least one photo of every kind of Thing-specific exhaust, as well as a broad assortment of other exhaust photos currently featured in at least one of the above threads.
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just for a hint most of the websites on the posts are outdated and do not show any photo's or info any more...
sad stuff
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| Captain spalding has the best exhaust ive seen, and GMW doesnt have it any longer |
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