[dburnum]

When I originally bought my cruiser the PO has installed a "cherry bomb" and and shortened the down-pipe to move the exhaust above the skid-plate. After a year of owning the cruiser, I installed the current 2F due to bad oil pressure. I welded the FJ-60 Exhaust manifold flange to my old booty exhaust line. Now that that line is totally shot, I'm needing to replace it with something better. There is a local shop, but they charged me $130 to bend the short peice from the "cherry bomb" to the right-rear fender behind the wheel.....maybe 30" of pipe, and one 90* bend. My wife has complained about exhaust smell, when traveling slow through the mountain trails, and would like to put a catalytic converter in the exhaust route. So...To my question. Will the exhaust system fro a 79-82 FJ-40, bolt into my '74, with little to no modification? A sales tech, said that there are too many differences in frame design, and body mounts, and wasn't sure. I know custom would probably be the way to go, and I want to keep the stock exhaust manifold. Is there a bolt-in solution out there? Neither $OR, JT, Man-A-Fre, seem to have what I'm looking for.

Thanks, Doug