well, got some christmas money built up, and was gonna put on a muffler,possibly exhaust on my 99 w/ 3.0L. my question is what kinda setup do you guys normally run?? i want something atht sounsd good

 

Most of the guys here like Gibson cat-backs. Haven't tried that myself yet. My '93 is as shown in my sig - custom whatever it came with. My old fav is run 1 2.25" pipe to a cheap Thrush glasspack to an elbow & SS resonator. The elbow gets the hanger to the frame. The resonator to keep the cops from bugging me.

 

I just had installed a new Cat, and a Flowmaster Super 44 Muffler on my 93 Ranger 2.3L.

Both the OEM Cat and Muffler were WAY past time to get changed out. Huge difference in the way the truck drives and sounds now. (Actually some forced air coming out of tailpipe, hardly anything before)

 

I run gibson catbacks, I've had a few. They have a great rumble at idle, a good growl at WOT. Awesome quality and fit and finish. I perfer the gibson dual sport with both pipes exiting behind the rear passenger tire. One of the loudest mufflers are the 40 series flowmaster, but they can resonate inside the cab at certain rpm's.

 

That flowmaster super 44 is nice and loud.

 

i have a cheap glass pack and about 18 inches of pipe that curves down. dosnt sound bad and did it all under 40 bucks. if it lasts a year ill be happy

 

Loud doesb't make it a good setup if it pops like a ricer. A deep low rumble is a sound of power. It's easy to make these V-6's sound like a ricer if not done correctly. I know gibson and borla give them a sound of power with out sounding too loud and like a ricer. Don't go any larger than 2.5" pipes as it will rob some of the lowend.

 

i have a flowmaster 40 with dual outs...here a lil vid of what it sounds like on my 96 4.0L
YouTube - 1996 Ford Ranger 4.0L 4x4 Dual Exhaust

 

I would like to use some scrap air condition duct. Probably 8" diameter with some of that metal tape to hold it on.

 

O_o ... That was funny. I have someone who lives around my place. He's got dual 5" semi stacks in his bed. They're on a four banger. They sound... well I've almost wrecked from laughing so hard. He tried to take me out of a light once. He later lifted it and rand 35" under it. The really funny thing is, now thick smoke does bellow out of it.

 

People like that are the reason why I don't mod my truck. The last thing I want to is be associated with that image. A person I know at work enjoys thumbing his nose at the ricer clowns. He cut a hole in the bottom of a Folger's coffee can (decaff no less) and welded it to the exhaust pipe on his car, an older Sentra I think.

A decent custom exhaust is no biggie, the vid a couple posts up is a good example - although I noticed it was smoking and popping at the top end.

At 120,000 miles my truck doesn't burn any oil to speak of and gets the same MPG that it did when I drove it off the lot - what more can I ask for? Well sounding a bit more throaty would be nice.

 

I saw that yesterday and my reaction was something like: , & , etc. Kinda figured it fit the air filter thread somewhere, which is where I thought I was as I got sleepy.

 

Yea id have to say my system does pop a lil at top end but as far as the smoke...that was the first time it had been started that day and it was in winter so the smoke was just from where it was cold....other then that she a pretty decent exhaust and decent truck

 

Sometimes a single exhaust with a modified muffler sounds the best on a V-6 with the same type performance. Dual exhaust's aren't that great unless they are true duals, otherwise it's just show.

 

ive still got the stock setup, yep 15 y/o exhaust. ive been toying with headers for spring, and i'll probly put on some generic glasspack. or i may do what i did with my 3/4 ton, measure the space available and put on a tractor muffler. yep, the last truck i had ran a muffler ment for a '67 oliver 1650 diesel. was quiet as could be, minamal restriction, was still there when i traded the truck off. V6 open exhaust just sound crappy to me, even a open V8 exhaust gets old after a few miles, let alone a all-day highway trip.i had a "fake-dual" setup with my '88 2.3 ranger. while it was cool in the winter to have smoke coming off both rear corners, it was hardly nticeable given the amount a 2.3 puts out the exhaust and splitting it to both corners. that truck used a "old" 351 V8 muffler that simply had a dual outlet and pipes were ran thru the not-used spare rack to each rear corner. it lasted about 4 years in the ohio salt. dont know why my stock '93 exhaust has lived so long. maybe because it stays hot, i still have a functional converter. all my other stuff was gutted out, just a empty canistor underneath. would have been funny if someone tried to swipe it then discovered they stole a empty shell. i was looking in my new summit book last night, not alot available for the ranger, a F150 or bronco theres all sorts of options.