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For the last month, my car has sounded like a lawnmower with a rattling muffler. I could hear a major exhaust leak coming from the engine bay, and that a baffle in the muffler had broken loose. I figured the leak in the engine bay was a gasket.

So I ordered up a superr 44 muffler and a set of gaskets. As I go to drop the manifold, I immediately see what was causing my leak. My number 2 header pipe was completely cracked through and no longer connected to the manifold.

That repair took a lot longer than I thought it was going to. I had to tack the pipe while in the car. Dropped the headers. Welded the pipe up including a few stress cracks stemming from the break. I sand blasted the headers. I coated them in a heat epoxy. Sprayed them with some heat paint. I then wrapped them in some header wrap.

Once I finally got everything back together. The car sounds mean as hell. Almost sounds like a muscle car. I love it.

I'm hoping that the exhaust break will explain my loss of power and my loss of fuel economy.
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1980 924 NA
1982 931