[alfa] Re: stebro steel

[SHartDP@xxxxxxx]

The reason there is rust on the stebro stuff is that they are using one of the lower quality stainless alloys.  Some of the lesser stainless mixes have more amounts of just plain steel in them so they will rust a bit.  These will not rust anywhere near as bad as "normal" steel, so don't worry about the mufflers rusting out though.  The higher quality stainless mixes tend to be a LOT more $$ and I'm sure stebro put this into the cost vs. effectiveness equation, and figured customers would not pay the amount it would cost to build the mufflers out of the real good stuff.

In a message dated 1/14/2004 4:01:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

> Subject: [alfa] stebro steel
> 
> Regarding surface rust on Stebro system -- you mean
> they use Russian steel? 
> Have complete Stebro system on my GTV6 and have
> rustspots on the muffler after two years but not the
> pipes. The sound is great. But it was a pain to
> install, had to manufacture pieces, since my car is
> one of the first 81s and for some reason the
> configuration of the headers are different from all
> the rest of the GTV6. Stebro did not know that,
> neither did I.
> Oivind Mathisen
> GTV6
> ERA Cobra
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