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<span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">1979 midget needs a new muffler assembly.</span></span> Bosal made the set-up that was distributed to just about everyone. It appears that all of the parts warehouses are out of the muffler set-up designed for the midget. I called Bosal and they informed me that they would no longer be producing the 79 midget muffler assembly.

Anyone out there used something else? I have even thought about flex pipe with a basic universal small single muffler. I am not certain of the flex pipe ids and necessary muffler ids.

Thanks for your input!
John
 
Rock Auto still shows it as available. Their stock levels have always been pretty accurate.

I should probably get one too.
 
britishpartsplace on ebay (not sure how to search it) quoted me $290 for Bell stainless from the cat back. I then went with a harley muffler for $25 and when the pipe goes will get a header and stainless between the muffler and the header.
 
Harley is a great idea, gonna do it myself. But those of us who live in "environmentally sensitive" areas need to have stock parts just in case we get tagged during our Smog inspections.

Most of the time the inspectors don't speak English well enough to understand the guide books. But when the do, you need to have the real parts ready to put on. Lucky for me, it's only every two years. But that's going to change to once a year soon.
 
Tell them it's factory, they won't know the difference. After all, it's true, the Harley muffer did come from the factory, just not an MG one.

It even has all the legal mumbo jumbo one it. It should pass for sure.
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and, some harley mufflers have Cats in them - so it might actually be cleaner.
 
My first trip through a "Test Only" inspection in CA had me arguing with a guy who could barely communicate with me. He insisted that I needed to connect the inlet of the eater core/fan housing to the inlet of the air cleaner housing. I tried to explain that they were both inlets, the car would not run if I did that. He persisted. I finally asked, how do you know?

Another guy who could communicate with me appeared and then produced a book with pictures that the test operators were to use for comparison. He pointed to the hose off of the air box (the thing that has the heat sensitive flapper doohickey on it)

Instead of arguing, I asked if the car would pass if the mystery parts were on the car. "No, you're a "gross polluter, you failed the exhaust test"

Why are we arguing?
 
Do they actually do the pipe up the exhaust pipe test still in these places? In NC they only plug into the OBDII connector on 96 and up vehicles and figure the ones older than that are a very minor part of the vehicles on the road. 95 was the last vehicle I bought. I like working on cars and I hate the government telling me how to live. I can get any carbed vehicle to pass a idle sniffer test and I can get any 96 and newer car to pass the OBDII test. The right resistances in the right places is all those computers need to think everything is great. The thing is that its not about pollution but about money and that is where I have a problem.
 
Go to a muffler shop, I took my complete exhaust from my 65 to a Midas, they recreated it and I asked for th basic Cherry Bomb. Sounds cool runs and looks great.

Mark
 
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