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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee [Re: plymouthfan] #68670
06/10/08 01:19 PM
06/10/08 01:19 PM
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Why would tips be omitted in CA? Noise? Pollution? I always saw them as more decorative than anything else...




Same principle as a megaphone < the tips enlarge the tail pipe ends. The end tips have a lot to do with how an exhaust sounds, just look at sport car mufflers and ricer fart pipes. I know that my ’68 RR had Dodge rectangular tips on it and I knew that only the ’68 Hemi RR got the tips so for both reasons (wrong tips and not an option on the 383) I took them off and put the turned down tail pipes on it and it got too quiet for me and lost that nice “trumpet” sound. I’m putting the chrome tips back on even though they are not correct for a ’68 383 Road Runner because they sound so nice!


Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee [Re: A12] #68671
06/10/08 09:31 PM
06/10/08 09:31 PM
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That make sense.

LOL, I couldn't understand how my car got quieter... I just ditched my manifolds for headers and added a larger exhaust on my Road Runner but hadn't gotten around to putting the new tips on.... guess that explains it.


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Re: Help decode my A12 69 bee [Re: A12] #68672
06/10/08 09:34 PM
06/10/08 09:34 PM
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For the last 40 years, we always referred to them as Chrome Echo tubes, or just Echo tubes, that pretty much describes them for me.

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