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About the flat area. There are a few spots where the exhaust gets a flat area, starting with the CAT and then on back, but those places are made in the pipe forming, for whatever reasons. But I am talking about the very end of the outflow, which must match the inflow of the next piece of pipe, so, round MUST meet with round, or flat with flat, or semi-round with semi-round.

The parts seller is telling me all his Starla mufflers are all hand welded on the front muffler.

But your saying that your Starla front muffler was factory welded with no beads, uniform, no spatter, and perfect ripples. Well, this muffler I got looks like a piece of crap of a weld job, beads, spatter, high and low ripples, classic beginner welder. Certainly none of the perfect welding like you describe on yours. What has me concerned is that the parts seller is telling me that all his Starlas are like that. So, either he is lying and trying to push off a fluke on me or he is buying flukes at discount and selling them to a deceived public - something is not right. I keep wondering why the rear muffler has a perfect factory weld on it but not the front one?

Time to call my lawyer. Time to alert the board who the seller is. Perhaps if I did that to begin with I may have gotten a better response. The seller is FCP.

diyer