Re: [AMC-List] Tust the Midas Touch - if you're a Masochist -

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

Just like any other chain, there are good ones and bad ones. The one by 
me does really good work and there are a couple of guys there really 
into cars (one has a 5.0 Mustang he races, another has a 70 Superbird). 
It's usually one of those guys working on the old stuff (like my cars).

Matt

Brien Tourville wrote:
> If you do use Midas, don't allow them to
> weld anything together - they use cheap
> off-shore high acid content metal - the
> welds will rot within two years.
> 
> Bring any NOS style hangers with you
> unless you like sheet metal screws being
> railed thru your floors.
> 
> I had them install on my 1989 Honda 
> Civic Si.  Two years later the entire
> system was junk.
> 
> They wouldn't honor the Lifetime 
> coverage on the muffler unless they
> installed another exhaust system -
> again - at the same price as the 
> initial install.
> 
> Getting 'Midasized' brought a whole
> new meaning to the experience.
> 
> 
> 
>         =Bt=
>   milnersXcoupe
>    "The Heretic"
> 
> 
> 
> <>
> 
> 
> 
> From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] exhaust pipes
> 
> 
> If you have head pipes, can't you just stick cheap mufflers on it and
> drive over? Also, they should be able to bend the pipes up for you if 
> 
> the
> truck is pretty much stock. The Midas by me had no problem bending up 
> a
> pipe for my 68 American.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Wayne E LaMothe wrote:
>> Since the only place that makes exhaust pipes is over 30 miles away and
>> the J10 has no pipes on it, I can't get the truck to them.  Is there any
>> place that sells old cars exhaust parts?  NAPA does not list either the
>> tailpipe or the intermediate pipe.  I might have to bring my pieces in
>> to see what they can bend up to match.
>>
>> Any leads?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Wayne
>> 66 Ambo 990 wagon, 327, auto, PS, PDB, PW, 69 Ambo 2 dr, 401 M12
>> 83 Eagle Limited, 82 Eagle SX/4
>> 88 J10, a real truck
>> 2001 XJ, 2000 Cirrus (both hers)
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