Cutting off the Muffler...
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Cutting off the Muffler...
I'm getting my license in about a month and i want true duals with glasspacks but right now im broke, so i was thinkin about just cutting off the muffler until i can get some money...so if i cut off the muffler there would still be 2 cats so i would think that wouldnt be abnoxious loud...has anyone ever just cut off the muffler on a 5.0 truck??? How does it sound??
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I did it on a crown vic with a 302-just left the cats there and ran tailpipes. It was definitely loud, you would want tailpipes. Unless you like a lot of cab resonation. It sounded kind of like loud flowmasters, but it was a little cackly like glasspacks. But more like flowmasters. I would do it again in a heartbeat if I didn't like my neighbors so much!
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Well, i wont be driving my truck much until i get my license...and by the time i have my license i will have the money to do the exhaust how i want it...so its just temporary i really just wanna see what it would sound like
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Well, do it then. You will probably think it's cool. It will sound like a racecar. Then by the time you get sick of it, you'll have enough dough to put mufflers on there, or tailpipes-and no harm done, right? And if you dont do it, you will always wonder if you should have run straight pipes or not. This way you will know.
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I'm not sure, but I don't know that it'd be that loud. My buddy has a '96 F-150 with the 5.8L and it's straight piped from one cat back. It's not overly loud at all. I'm not sure on the exhaust configuration on your pickup, but I just don't know that it'll be overly loud. I guess there's only one way to find out...trial and error.
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It's ridiculously QUIET! Man, I took a hacksaw to the muffler on my 5.0, then went and fired the truck up....A small rumble on light acceleration and idle, can't really hear it other than that.
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Thanks there 93Green...you confirmed what I had originally thought! For a minute I thought I was hearing things...or not hearing them I guess.
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Well, like I said it was a crown vic, maybe they have different cats or something. But it was loud. Which is really subjective anyway.
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Well my old man said i couldnt cut off the muffler but i can take it off....so i got everything unbolted and i sprayed WD-40 on it and got a pipe wrench and started twisting away...but i cant seem to get it loose, is there other way you guys suggest i take it off????
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Get an air chisel and try to get it between the 2 pipes and work them loose. WD40 aint the best rust breaker, more of a lube. I believe that brake fluid is a rust breaker, most anything you buy will do good. There was a big thread a while ago. Heat, heat and more heat, then spray some rust breaker.