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Subject:Need your opinions: stainless exhaust opportunity
From:The Bus Depot
Date:Fri, 18 Feb 2000 19:40:54 -0500

I have the opportunity to import '86-up crossover pipes (header pipes) in
stainless steel, from a well established and reputable manufacturer.  Price
would be almost double that of the non-stainless variety ($199 each versus
$109). The muffler I already ship proportedly has a stainless steel body
(excluding flanges), so this would make for an almost, but not completely,
stainless setup.  (The collector pipe is cast iron - and usually not a
failure point- but the connecting pipe and tailpipe would still not be
stainless.)  This would be for '86-up 2WD only, since a Syncro uses a
different front pipe (although the rear pipe would work).

Question is, should I bother?  If I commit to it, how many of you will spend
the extra bucks for stainless next time you need an exhaust?

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  http://www.busdepot.com