Georgia Fiero Club Forum
All Things Fiero => The Market => Topic started by: Fierofool on November 12, 2018, 10:12:46 pm
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I need a muffler for a V6. The muffler on my 87 is coming apart at the end. I'll also spring for a new muffler if anyone knows what brand and part number to get.
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The Spintech muffler was about $160. You need 1 in, 2 out. I think I got 2", which is too big.
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I have secured an OEM muffler that has part of the inlet cut off. I'll have to take it to a muffler shop to see if they can attach it to piping on my car. I'm not out of the woods until I know, but I'm suspending my search at the moment. Still, I would like to know the part number of the Camaro or Firebird muffler that everyone was using as a replacement. I think it was made by FlowMaster. Or maybe just tell me what year Camaro or Firebird it fit. Thanks.
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What happened?
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There's a small muffler shop here in town. He's mostly a one-man shop. He said he could do the job, so probably one day next week I'll take the car and muffler down and leave it for him. The good thing about what I have is that all the springs and mounting brackets are attached to the muffler. All he'll need do is bolt up the 2 mounting brackets to get it into position. If you've never dealt with trying to hook up the springs to the mounting bracket, you don't know what an ordeal you're in for.
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A joy of Fiero ownership. I hope this fixes the exhaust leak issue.
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Took down to the shop on Thursday afternoon so he could get started first thing Friday morning. He removed 1 bolt from the muffler hanger, didn't have a flex head to get to the other muffler hanger and gave up on it. Said he couldn't do the job, so the car's back in my driveway.
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I suppose it's better then getting on to deep and then realising..... Trying hard to think of something positive to say!
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This was a muffler shop, and he didn't have tools for a muffler job? I can positively say, "take it somewhere else!"
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Any luck with finding a shop?
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I haven't had the time nor the money. I had gotten an online quote from either Midas or AAMCO for replacing the muffler but I never followed up on it. I am guessing it was only for the muffler. Seems like it was about $200. I deleted their quote, so I don't remember exactly who or where they were.
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Update: I have a stock Fiero muffler now installed. Working as it should.
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Who did the work on it?
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Nice one.
After scaring myself thinking of the logistics of getting new exhaust bits.. I just finished removal, clean and repaint of the old system!
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Is it hard to get an exhaust system, there?
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For a Fiero? Impossible other than import and due to the size/shape that wouldn't go well!
One of the UK guys had a complete custom system made in stainless any years ago. Wish I had done that but would have been very expensive.
I have very neatly repaired mine over the years, cat gone.
The muffler, which I guess is the bit we call a "silencer" has GM written on it so I guess is original which is quite amasing.
From FFs experience it doesn't sound so straightforward there either!
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I have a spintrch muffler, and Rodney's cat. Both went right in.
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GTRS, there's an independent muffler shop in Lawrenceville, Ga. that surprisingly is owned by the wife of the first shop that couldn't get the second bolt removed. They had the muffler swapped out and welded in in less than 2 hours and that included getting another car finished up.
PK, I got a good stock muffler from another Fiero. TFS sells the Ocelot system for the Fiero, from the converter back to the tips.
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If mine ever fails it will probably be cheaper to get one made custom here than try to import. It looks on good shape now though so won't worry about it for a good while.
Your experience at that first shop was a bit weird but at least they recognised it was too much for them rather than bodging it!
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There's a company over here known as FlowMaster. They make mufflers designed for Firebirds and Camaros that have mufflers mounted transversely like the Fiero. The 80 series muffler is a good fit. It doesn't have the provisions for the spring supports, but neither does the Ocelot. It is sufficiently supported by the hanger straps on either outlet. They're about $120 USD. Cheaper than the Ocelot system and cheaper to ship. They come in aluminized steel or stainless like the Fiero system.