Come on guys, get creative.
You can buy a new MIG welder setup for less than a years road tax.
Aluminized exhaust pipe elbows are dirt cheap, even mandrel bent stuff isn't
that pricey.
Buy a $99 cat from Ron and learn how to weld- really, its not that hard.
You can put together a custom exhaust for pretty cheap, not counting your
original investment in the MIG, which you'll wonder how you ever lived
without...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Bj�rn
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 1999 8:18 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: wbx 6, should I?
>
>
> At 05:36 PM 28/02/99 -0500, Ron wrote:
> >> No catalyst, what means $700 road tax per year. Arrgghh.
> >
> >
> >Hmmm.  A cat is only $99.  Even an exhaust that can accept it (assuming
> >stock '88 US=spec exhaust) is $469 complete (my price), asuming
> stock 2.1L
> >parts. And if not stock, for $600 couldn't you have the exhaust
> modified to
> >accept the $99 cat?  The cat is US made, but the exhaust system
> is Danish,
> >which certainly would cost even less in Germany than in the U.S. (and if
> >not, you could always mail order it from the U.S.). Even
> including shipping,
> >it seems like for less than 2 years road tax you could fit a catalyst
> >exhaust to it for once and for all, and avoid the $700/year tax.  I can't
> >see paying $700/year rather than just modifying it to accept a
> cat.  What am
> >I missing?
> >
> >- Ron Salmon
> > The Bus Depot
> > http://www.busdepot.com
> >
> >
>
> Ron, you are talking 6 cylinders, no 2.1 WBX parts. You are missing 2
> cylinders.
> You are talking expensive part prices wherever you look. I doubt that you
> would have anything in stock.
>
> As for Michael's decision it is being reasonable (saying no) against what
> the heck (yeah).
>
>
> Bj�rn
>