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« on: October 13, 2011, 20:06:09 pm »
Has any one heard of any 1 3/4 merged headers with heater boxes ...Huh ....Can it be done.....?.....Has A-1 ever done this ...?...or anyone else..?
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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 20:31:43 pm »
I'm 99.9% sure CSP do.

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« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 21:50:04 pm »
Just talked to Tigar at A-1 Muffler, he does 1 3/4" header, and in all stainless too!

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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2011, 22:00:52 pm »
Berg did it!
I have one of their systems ...
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« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2011, 22:04:02 pm »
But do they still make them, I hear they don't.

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« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2011, 23:15:19 pm »
True Ted, that I cannot tell you ...  Huh
Perhaps one could be found? Undecided

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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2011, 00:02:18 am »
Tom, does your heater work well? I had a 1 1/2" set of the old Dansk ones on a modified merge. They moved a lot of air, all of it lukewarm. Seriously, my breath was warmer. I thought they weren't up to the task and I lived in Orange County at the time.

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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2011, 00:12:48 am »
Honestly, the fact that ANY air warmer than ambient flows out of those vents is all that really matters to me.
And, although they aren't nearly as efficient as original equipment (due mainly to the fact that they clearly don't utilize the aluminum heat sinks that wrapped the original J-pipes inside the assembly), the HARDER you drive it, the WARMER the air gets!
So, I suppose the moral here, rather than 'Be happy with what you can get', would be 'Drive HARD and SMILE, it'll make you all WARM inside!'.

Also a good reason to run 10.5:1 or Better!
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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2011, 00:19:38 am »
Quote from: TexasTom on October 14, 2011, 00:12:48 am
the HARDER you drive it, the WARMER the air gets!
Also a good reason to run 10.5:1 or Better!

Both good points! Glad it wasn't just me who had that problem.

I took that car with me when I moved to Berkeley. It got what I considered freezing-ass cold there--maybe 50 degrees F.  Cheesy

Fast forward almost 20 years. My wife's Baja has German heater boxes but the door seals were bad. It got to 22F one night (-6 six for the rest of the world that was smart enough to adopt metric). We simply froze our asses off. We had to scrape the INSIDE of the windshield.

Now everything gets a gas heater.  Wink
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« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2011, 01:37:20 am »
I have a Berg 1 3/4" heater box system modified for an A1 Renn Kafer muffler.
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« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2011, 01:49:45 am »

Now everything gets a gas heater.  Wink
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Or a BLOWTORCH! ... although, I guess that's what those actually are ...

Stelth67vw ... nice.
How was the header modified to accept the A1, flange? Or was the muffler modified to accept the header? LOL
Thanks,
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« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2011, 01:58:56 am »
I made my own out of a Berg 1 5/8 merged header and it will cook me out of my car.  My wife has been known to complain that it is too hot while I am trying to defrost the windshield.  They work!
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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2011, 02:19:13 am »
Quote from: TexasTom on October 14, 2011, 01:49:45 am

Or a BLOWTORCH! ... although, I guess that's what those actually are ...

How so?

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« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2011, 03:22:53 am »
Quote from: TexasTom on October 14, 2011, 01:49:45 am

Now everything gets a gas heater.  Wink


Or a BLOWTORCH! ... although, I guess that's what those actually are ...

Stelth67vw ... nice.
How was the header modified to accept the A1, flange? Or was the muffler modified to accept the header? LOL
Thanks,
TxT

The Berg's said they may never have the muffler made for their system since their header guy was flakey so I hacked off the flange, shortened up the collector about 1/2" and made a matching flange for the A1 muffler.
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« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2011, 04:16:46 am »
Quote from: hotrodsurplus on October 14, 2011, 02:19:13 am
Quote from: TexasTom on October 14, 2011, 01:49:45 am

Or a BLOWTORCH! ... although, I guess that's what those actually are ...

How so?



Gas heaters ... BLOW torches ... ?
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« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2011, 04:46:42 am »
A case of sterno in the back seat...
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« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2011, 12:39:32 pm »
 Grin   Shocked   Wink
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