hi, this is my first post.

I just got my F150 it is a 2005 4.6L and I want to make it sound good.

Will going to the local exhaust shop and having them replace the muffler with a flowmaster make it sound pretty nice? I'm just looking for a nice growl but the louder the better.

They want $120 incl. tax and labor.

thank you!

 

The louder the better? Go with the Cherry Bomb Extreme. Cheaper and louder. Flowmaster makes an Extreme version, too.

Are you going to run duals pipes?

 

No I am planning on keeping everything the same, just having them replace the muffler. If I'm told though it is a bad idea then maybe not.

 

well 120 is not a bad price most flowmaster mufflers sell from 70 to 90 dollar...on my truck i just replaced from muffler back with larger pipe and a chrome tip..but just a muffler would be just as good if your on a budge

 

you'll get some noise. hope you like it. $120 isn't bad at all if that is labor/parts

I think you'll end up doing a dual exhaust though. If you want noise, that is where it's at.


Give your current idea a try first though. If it ain't enough, it's really easy to make the truck dual exhaust and still re-use the muffler

 

Welcome to FTE. Make sure its an actual Flowmaster muffler if thats the route you are going.... far too often these days shops sell a Fakemaster in its place (I believe the patented items in the Flowmaster design have gone out of the patent date... and some Chinese firms knocked it off). Just swapping the muffler out is fine. No exhaust swap is truly going to gain any real power... just sound. If you are handy, you might even save the install charges, and just buy some clamp and proper sized tubing... and sawzall the old one out, and install the new muffler with some fitting. Good luck either way!

 

well I got it yesterday and wanted to report back if anyone searches and has the same question in the future.

The 40 series Flowmaster muffler I got for $120 sounds great. It is loud, deep, and gurgly. I love it. It drones a bit around 30-35 and is pretty loud at idle. They wanted to sell me a different muffler that was chrome (looked like a honda clown fart can) and we put it on and sounded like a bumble bee.

Flowmaster is teh winnar.

P.S. Mexican muffler shops are great.

 

great to hear you like your flowmaster job...when you muffler breaks in it will be a lot deeper and little less drone

 

How do you break in a baffled muffler? Not being a smart alleck, I'm honestly curious. I always hear people saying "..when it breaks in.." I can't see how. There is nothing to break in, is there?

 

don't know why, but it happens.


my maggie muffler was alot quieter at first...after about 1,000 miles the tone got noticeably louder.

same thing with my mustang maggie mufflers.

 

the heat makes the muffler balfes disfore inside changing tone

 

I noticed my idle isn't as loud anymore. Is this due to the muffler getting broke in? I thought it was supposed to get louder. Having an I6 my idle tone is the best sounding stage besides WOT. The last thing I wanted to get quieter was my idle.


Surely just by putting a regular replacement air filter in place of the K&N replacement wouldn't have made THAT big of a noise difference if any, eh?



Was your maggie packed or baffled? Packed breaks in nicely.

 

no idea 6cylbill. it's the run of the mill Maggie SIDO muffler for the truck, and x2 18" bullets for the Mustang

 

Glad you got it done. As long as you can live with the drone they do sound pretty good.

Man, if I had a 5.4 I would have this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGLZDUpoCY