My beetle turned beasty on the way home from work

Casper Seriously Crusin Dubber

185 posts · joined Jul 2003 · 9 Oct 2008, 8:12 pm

#673933

Finally got "Casper the friendly bug" properly tuned and running sweetly, so started driving him to work. Not having driven a manual for many years and getting used to the beetle gears some of my gear changes have been a hit a miss, so imagine my horror when driving home from work when changing from 3rd to 4th the engine sound becomes really noisy and loud. I am thinking what the hell just happened, what did I break................!. The car still seems to be driving ok no smells or anything like that, but it just sounded loud. When I finally arrive at my destination I walk around the back to sus out if I have a huge hole in muffler or something like that, to find I am missing one tail pipe. I guess that gives all new meaning to blow it out your .............. . Sounds really beasty. Pam

P Laxton

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 9 Oct 2008, 8:54 pm

#673943

Ahhh....the world of Beetles

Enjoy

Futue te ipsum!!!

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 9 Oct 2008, 9:00 pm

#673946

be thankfull it didnt go thro someones windscreen
new tailpipes nearly always come loose till they start to rust in place

my old trick was tack weld the tail pipe to the clamp
stops it falling out but can still be removed by undoing the clamp

gotta be carefull tho
dont think u could do it with brazillian peashooters
it would prob blow holes in them

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Rural Baja #tassievwpickers

1,075 posts · joined Jan 2006 · 10 Oct 2008, 11:00 am

#674036

Joel wrote:brazillian peashooters
it would prob blow holes in them

The amount of hubcaps i have lost on the gravel road outside my house due to those crappy brazilian sh#t hubcap clips is unbeleivable! Only buy the german stuff, more expensive but at least it saves me buying new hubcaps every weekend when i take her out!

Pauld Officially Full-On Dubber

204 posts · joined Sep 2008 · 10 Oct 2008, 2:10 pm

#674067

while on the topic of beasty exhausts, i have the kadron extractor set which meets in the centre of the rear of the engine bay at a flange which then goes to the muffler which has the outlet out the sides, how would it go with a flange that would normally convert two pipes to one spin that around send it out the rear via a pair of 2 1/4" dump pipes out the rear in roughly the standard outlet positions?

sorry for the hijack to by the way

Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 10 Oct 2008, 8:39 pm

#674162

1963 Empi Radar wrote:Only buy the german stuff

as they say buy once, cry once 😉

wildfire Casual Dubber

47 posts · joined Oct 2008 · 22 Oct 2008, 3:25 pm

#676076

Casper wrote:I walk around the back to sus out if I have a huge hole in muffler or something like that, to find I am missing one tail pipe. I guess that gives all new meaning to blow it out your .............. . Sounds really beasty. Pam

Jesus that made me laugh 😂 Sorry for your loss tho 😀

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