Not that you can't convince me - it's just that the shops I took the car to to get looked at suggested that it would be around $50 or so for the one weld - so adding the cost of the flanges and two welds, I'm looking at more cost in the welding than for the new muffler itself. But, would it work equally well to get a coupling adapter (1.75" inside diameter) that fits nicely over the 1.75" outside diameter exhaust pipe and muffler pipe and use muffler clamps to secure the two pieces together that way? If in the future then I needed to replace the B-pipe or resonator, I could just unclamp the sections, replace the B-pipe and reclamp them down? Solution?

Thanks