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> Everett has already explained the different exhausts that you posted. > > Let me assure you that the exhaust is NOT your problem. No matter how bad it > is, your car should still have no trouble getting above 50 mph. You need to > look elsewhere before you worry about the muffler. i was kind of afraid of that. I seriously do have very little mechanical know how (not to mention very little positive cash flow), so this whole process is going to be extremely slow and tedious for me. trial by fire methinks. > Post your symptoms. Does it start and idle well? Has it had a correct tuneup > (dwell, timing, valve adjustment) lately? What year? i bought it for 200 bucks in 2000, i had it running for about 2 months. it turns out that it had been sitting for about 5 years before i got it ( the guy lied to me about that) It died on me in early 2001, and i havent been able to afford to get anything done to it since. while it was running, in that span of 2 months, i had to replace 2 of the injectors because they were worn out, and i was driving to work with a stream of gasoline pouring out of the back of my car. i know i am going to have to see about getting the gas tank fixed, the guage doesnt work and i have a feeling that there is a lot of crud in the tank. i have a lot of oil around the bottom of my engine, and a lot of tranny fluid on the bottom of the transmission (its an automatic by the way) hopefully this weekend i will havethe time to siphon out any fuel in the tank, give the battery a charge, put fresh gas in it and try and turn it over to see how that goes. as far as symptoms, as i remember, it actually ran fine the day it died, but i was driving home through an ice storm, and i just suddenly couldnt get it above 10-15 mph. even if i floored it, it still sounded as if it was bogged down, and just crept along. (at that point in time, my mothers house had burnt down 2 days prior, so my money was going elsewhere, hence the car sitting for the past 3 years.) it was almost as itf you were driving a manual transmission car, and tried to pull out from a dead stop in 3rd or 4th. > If FI, how is the fuel pressure? If your overflow hose is cracked you may have > a gas tank full of water which has now rusted a lot of expensive things. The > dirt in the water would have blocked up the filter and kept fuel from getting > thru. when the garage replaced the injectors for me, they said that the fuel pressure was good. i actually have a new fuel filter in the back trunk that i never had a chance to put in. > Is the system voltage low? It should be above 13.5V at medium RPM. this i never checked... > How was your gas mileage? > the gas mileage was great, except for when it was freely pouring out the back of the car from the leaky injectors. but i think it was 22-25 mpg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org