230 Massey Exhaust Continental gas

What do you all recommend for exhaust pipe and muffler for a 230 gas. Horizontal? Vertical? Where to by the parts? What parts to buy? My tractor currently has horizontal exhaust but the fellow or fellows that homemade it must have not had a sharpie in their pocket to mark the flange and thus, the exhaust exits directly into the side of the right rear tire. Probably ought to replace it but I'm having difficulty deciding upon which aftermarket, non-fitting junk to buy.
CC
 
here are a couple of pictures of a MF 230 with both type mufflers systems.

would be your choice,
I have an old TO35 and I prefer the horizontal muffler as I have to cut around fence rows with tree limbs hanging out. when I had the vertical pipe I hit the pipe so many times, I broke the exhaust manifold, that was a big job changing that thing out.

also I do not like the fumes in my face when the wind is blowing back toward me.

however, when picking corn a few years ago I stopped to unplug the picker, by the time I got back to the tractor, the muffler had set the field on fire. not good, got it out, but it scared me good. After that incident is when I installed the vertical muffler and ran it for years.

your choice, notice where the horizontal muffler exhaust exits right under the left floor plate.
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You know, I never have seen it, but there ought to be a middle position someplace, because neither the vertical upright is right all the time, nor is the down-below position right all the time. There ought to be some middle position, somehow, where the exhaust could exit just above the axle, enclosed in some sort of protective insulating sleeve so it didn't buen the daylights out of you. Somebody go ahead and invent that, please.
 
I'm not sure I even care where the exhaust exits, vertical or horizontal, the challenge is getting the right pieces to complete the exhaust for a gas, continental 230. For horizontal, the book shows 2 pieces, a pipe and a muffler. Agco wants $400 for each piece. Chasing and shopping part numbers, I can find the muffler 539523M92 just about anywhere but the pipe 578250M91 seems impossible. I'm fine with aftermarket given the prices at AGCO but I don't want to buy something that doesn't fit right - I can cobble up crap that doesn't fit all by myself.
 
check with some of your local muffler shops they should be able to bend one for you,use aluminized pipe, may even find one that can make a stainless one, don't think it will cost $400 either
 

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