QUOTE(nathanxnathan @ Dec 20 2022, 04:22 PM)
Busdepot sells an Ernst muffler that is what the Dansk is trying to be. Basically it is an OEM 1.8 muffler. Side exit. The original 1.7 muffler was a Leistritz center exit that is a little smaller, but NLA.
Dansk and Walker (czechoslovakia), the feel/production quality pales compared to the real-deal Ernst.
This is a really nice piece imo
https://www.busdepot.com/071251053eyes and no.
a bus muffler is different.
but its only in the way the inlet flange plates are oriented.
here is the original factory 914 muffler that was once on my car.
its a 74 1.8
Click to view attachment here is bus (or late 412) single piece german factory muffler.
Click to view attachment notice how the VW application has the inlet flange plates welded at 180 degree rotation to a 914.
they used the same basic muffler but that was the difference.
this allowed the 914 to retain its lhs tailpipe location in these later single piece mufflers.
the bus and the type 4 exited on the rhs.
all the crazy dents and creases in the muffler are because it tucked up under the fan housing and allowed for the oil dipstick filler tube because they faced up in the bus.
they end up facing down in the 914 and make no sense because its not tucked up under a fan housing.
anyway you are right about one thing.
that ernst muffler is a much better buy.
and it will bolt straight on but you will end up with a rhs tailpipe and the muffler will end up closer to the heat shield under the trunk.
which is ok. a way around that is modify the valence and just go with that.
or you can do what i did which was modify the bus muffler and cut the inlet flanges off
and reweld them back on 180 degree rotated.
either way, the dansk bus muffler or the ernst bus muffler is a way better buy than the dansk 914 muffler because either dansk or the retailers are having 914 owners on.
its the same muffler apart from the flange orientation and they generally retail for double. thats bs - out and out bs on dansk's part.
if you are handy with a grinder and a welder grab the bus muffler.
make your own tailpipe or buy the dansk 914 tailpipe and use that.
i know because i have done it.
i have a modified bus muffler on my car.
a high quality stainless steel one i got hold of 20 years ago.
i'm not sure if it was made by an australian VW parts supplier or if it came from germany, but its a very high quality bus muffler i got hold of and modified.