<VV> EM muffler hanger location

[Frank DuVal]

Most noobies make this mistake (I did... but it was years ago).

The entire exhaust system on a Corvair must hang from the engine. The 
engine is mounted on rubber mounts, so it moves in relation to the body. 
The exhaust system is too short to absorb these movements, like a long 
system can on a front engine car.

BTW, the 64 style muffer hanger has been unavailable for a long time. I 
need some! I make do with the 60 to 63 style, which is not made to fit 
the oval muffler. A round muffler has been used on many an early, the 60 
to 63 use them OEM. IIRC the K car had a perfect round muffler/tail pipe 
to fit an early. I do not recall the particulars.

Frank DuVal

Jay Ciampi wrote:

>As most of you know by now, I have a 64 Monza coupe and I am restoring it (95% done now). It has an after-market  Midas round muffler on it with a universal muffler hanger. I had to replace the crossover pipe a few days ago (that's an other story) and now the muffler and tailpipe will not fit under the fender properly (the tailpipe is the problem, it hits the back body panel. That is due to the new crossover being stock length. The Midas people must have cut a bit off the end of the crossover pipe to get the muffler to fit.  I will be getting a stock OVAL muffler and T/P in the future (low on cash at the time) and I hope to use the original style muffler hanger. I can't tell what it looks like from the Clark's catalog picture. Where does the hanger screw on to on the body?  
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>Jay Ciampi
>Lake Placid, FL.
>12 miles So. of the Sebring Race Track
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