Re: 77 Grem 2L

[ameskg@xxxxxxxxx]

Well, it came to naught. It was a nice car, ran good, driver's fender just
starting to rust, part of driver's floor gone. I was willing to go to maybe
7-800$ but the bidding started at 1000 and it finally went for 1700Cdn.
Had 76000 miles and a cast iron exhaust manifold. :)

Ken Ames

Quoting Andre K Jacobs <akjamc@xxxxxxxx>:

> Frank
> You are saying this engine used a tube type exhaust manifold, NOT cast
> iron??? IF yes, then NO, not on the two or three I have seen and the one
> owned buy a guy in Dallas that has been looking for two years now for
> one. All I have seen are cast iron. What happens is just like what use to
> happen to the 4 cyl imports that had a cast iron chamber below the
> exhaust manifold. This was like a pre-cat filled with some ceramic honey
> comb. This would get clogged up and cause excessive heat to build up (
> the engine would stop running from too much back pressure). The top side
> of the exhaust would start to show singes of what looked like a very bad
> rusting problem. It would start to bulge and get deep expansive cracking.
> The cast iron just falls apart. The Audi 2L does this right in the middle
> of the manifold. I looked at the design of the manifold, and thought how
> easy it looked to make a tube type exhaust manifold for it, but........
> Anyway, if you know if source that have a tube type, pass it on. there
> are a few folks out there that need them. I have repaired many 4L Jeep
> tube type ones myself.
> 
> Andre " A.J." Jacobs, 
> web page http://southtexasamc.tripod.com
>  (830)-980-3165 , akjamc@xxxxxxxx 
> 
> Owner & Proprietor, South Texas AMC
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