Although I liked the Ernst mufflers, their pipes weren't much better than
Dansk.  I brought in 50 sets of Ernst pipes a couple of years ago, and the
welds at the flanges tended to protrude just like the Dansk.  Almost all of
these pipes required some resurfacing before use.

Cheers,

Jeff

From: Old Volks Home [mailto:oldvolkshome@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 8:45 PM
To: Jeff Schwaia
Cc: Vanagon List
Subject: Re: NOW - Stainless Steel Mufflers

Enrnst has been bought out by Dansk/Jopex (JP Group) this past year.  JP
Group has sent a flyer to me last month showing the Ernst line will be
re-purposed as a "Premium" Dansk Exhaust line, but they're only showing Type
1 and Type 2 Exhausts for the 1600 based air cooled engine.  Nothing has
been said about continuing and Type 4 based or Wasserboxer based Ernst
products (yet).

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Jeff Schwaia <vw.doka@gmail.com> wrote:

Probably.  The Ernst mufflers definitely have a throatier sound.
Unfortunately, the Ernst stuff is nigh impossible to find.  I believe they
have "moved on" from T3's.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Wolz [mailto:wolzphoto@q.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:53 AM
To: 'Jeff Schwaia'; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: RE: NOW - Stainless Steel Mufflers

Jeff,

Was the muffler you put on my Westy an Ernst?  That's what I recall, anyway.
It was fairly heavy and has a beautiful tone (love it in low roofed parking
garages, where it regularly sets off car alarms) and good power.  Big
improvement over whatever was in previously (Dansk, perhaps?).

Karl Wolz