straight six exhaust
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straight six exhaust
alright so this truck is a 1995 f150 4x4 xl i6. it is my first truck and i am looking to get a little meaner sound out of it. so heres my idea, just running stock exhaust manifolds (ive heard from so many people that headers arent worth the work because they dont make a difference) just keeping the stock pipe and cats and putting a flowmaster 40 on it, then dumping the pipe before the rear axle and probably pointing the tip down at the ground. sound like a good idea?
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From: Morgantown, WV
i have an 87 with the 300-six, and I can tell you, that sound isnt going to get a whole lot better, they dont have the engineering to make them sound good like a V8, I have a walked y-pipe, stock manifolds, no cat, a thrush welded muffler about 2-3 ft of straight pipe then the stock replacement tail pipe, sounds pretty good, but a little on the loud side because of the no cat situation. Duals arent going to get you the sound you want either, Ive been looking into it for years tryin to find something to make it sound better.
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I wouldn't go overboard dumping a ton of time and money into the exhaust, it may end up sounding like a tractor. My '81 Chevy had the 292 in it with no cat and the best sound came from the $27 Autozone muffler and a regular tailpipe. Louder than hell with the old blown out muffler, it made driving it unpleasant.
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I'd just leave it stock. The only thing I'd do is modify the tailpipe so it doesn't hang down so much.
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Keep it quiet. A "meaner" sound on an I6 gets you a tractor sounding exhaust and its just awful.
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I've been thinking of doing a stock, or Turbo, muffler and Y-ing it of into dual tails .... just for the heck of it. Wonder if dual tails and larger tips would make any difference in a "stock" sound. Do not want loud.
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From: Munger
depending on what tone you guys are looking for, if you want a deeper tone go with a bigger diameter pipe like a 3in, if you want a cackle, do what the chevy owners do and put those stupid little 1.5 in pipes out the back. comparing apples to oranges right here, i have the 5.8 and with 2in dual thrush glasspaks and it had just about all around good sound, if i had a straight 6 like you i would just run a 2in with a flowmaster 40 and go to a 2.5in tail pipe