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Old May 6, 2007 | 08:19 AM
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Question exhaust screen
why in the heck is there a screen in the tailpipe on a stock exhaust? Anyone know the reason?
 
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Old May 6, 2007 | 09:08 AM
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Keep mice out........???????????

Probably to increase the noise removal of the muffler system...... I cut mine out years back. Anyone operating with a stock exhaust is not getting full effect of power available from their engine. Bigger is better 3.5 " with free flow muffler or if turbo'd straight pipe ...............
 
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Old May 6, 2007 | 09:18 AM
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ive got the banks exhaust but i still want to ditch the muffler.
 
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Old May 6, 2007 | 09:34 AM
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The screen must be a Banks thing, I have never seen a screen in a stock exhaust on the IDI engine.
 
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Old May 6, 2007 | 09:37 AM
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sorry i didnt mean that my banks exhaust has the screen, i was looking at a 94 f350 non turbo, and in the end of the tailpipe it has what looks like a metal screen of some sort.
 
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Old May 6, 2007 | 04:28 PM
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Maybe it is to keep wasps, mice, and small birds out when you don't drive it for a few days. It'd be sad to see Tweety stuck to the garage door with soot!
 
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spark arrestor like our motor cycles run in the desert, this is a possibility
 
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It'd be sad to see Tweety stuck to the garage door with soot!
on the contrary! id be laughing pretty hard.
 
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i think id have to take a picture, post it here, and let everyone have a good laugh!!!
 
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A lot of the original tailpipes had the screens in them. I always figured they were to break up any chunks of soot that broke loose. Or in other words, what dwaymar said.

They usually rust out after a while, or someone takes a torch to them.
 
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You guys are just plain mean, poor Tweedy.
 
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Oh no, Dave. I would never hurt "Tweedy". I was talking about the lesser known "Tweety, the papier mache bird"
 
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