my neighbor in the pic above got an expensive parking ticket, watched the cops doing rounds sun morning ticketing every car which was still buried in the street
ok since it's such a pain to pull the engine i decided to try a little jb weld and a stud on the head, the threaded stud had enough threads in the head to hold it in place (metal missing from 3 o'clock to 7 o'clock).....i'll know tomorrow if it'll hold, i may be alright as it's snug
just bought a muffler for a 300 off of fleabay for $25, should work fine and quiet it down good.
right now i've got about $205 into the whole project (subtracting the parts i already sold)