ehaust?

Ricksquickviii

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Hi,
is are ehaust stainless steel from factory?? if so should i stay with stainless? what has everyone went with?
 
Ricksquickviii said:
Hi,
is are ehaust stainless steel from factory?? if so should i stay with stainless? what has everyone went with?


YOu can go with what ever you can afford. I know that aluminized is cheaper than stainless by some. So, it is up to you what you want. Stainless last longer....hence the higher cost. I went, and will go with stainless in the future.....just my $.02. :Beer
 
I don't think so, simply because my exhaust is all rusty, and I don't believe that SS rusts. I could be wrong though.
 
i did not think so , i was told from someone that lincoln used stainless steel on the mark VIII from factory ,
that why they last so long, i'll be getting a exhaust job done on mind soon, not sure which way to go.?
 
ONEBADMK8 said:
It is ss. Just not a good ss, more of a mild ss.


I was gonna say. I had some old pipe from our previous 93's stock system sitting around that I needed to use for a small TIG welding project. I kept wondering why the hell the beads were turning our the way they were.



You wanna know a really easy way to tell if something is stainless? Try to stick a magnet to it. Stainless is non-ferrous, (won't hold a magnet).
 
I guess I stand corrected.....that is the crappiest ss I have ever seen........cheap a$$ed FoMoCo! :Bang
 
Actually, as far as stock exhaust systems go, we have pretty good stuff. Not the best but pretty good stuff.
 
i agree it is ss
as far as exhausts go its pretty darn good,of course its not like super quality but its better than what most other domestic car companies have used.

mike
 
94m5 said:
You wanna know a really easy way to tell if something is stainless? Try to stick a magnet to it. Stainless is non-ferrous, (won't hold a magnet).

Actually... stainless steel IS ferrous. Ferrous metals are anything that use iron (Periodic talbe Fe, latin work Ferium), and since stainles steel is steel, which is iron with 1.2-3.6% carbon added, stainless steel and all steels for that matter are ferrous metals. Stainless steel just has an additianl 1-1.8% Chromium added to increase the metals resilience to corrosion. As for the non-magnetic properties... I really wasn't aware of this and I'll actually test this on some SS and find out why it is not magnetic. Sorry for the rant but mechanical engineering has made me very touchy when people make minor mistakes :N .
 
Lugi20 said:
Actually... stainless steel IS ferrous. Ferrous metals are anything that use iron (Periodic talbe Fe, latin work Ferium), and since stainles steel is steel, which is iron with 1.2-3.6% carbon added, stainless steel and all steels for that matter are ferrous metals. Stainless steel just has an additianl 1-1.8% Chromium added to increase the metals resilience to corrosion. As for the non-magnetic properties... I really wasn't aware of this and I'll actually test this on some SS and find out why it is not magnetic. Sorry for the rant but mechanical engineering has made me very touchy when people make minor mistakes :N .


Beh, details. Thanks for the info tho, Iv'e always refered to it as non-ferrous. I'll have to change my wording now.


Mike
 

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