Exhaust
Tuned
Joined: Nov 2009
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ive got a 97 4.6 and i took it to the local muffler shop and had a y pipe and 3 inch tips put on straight out the back. it sounds great (much better than any muffler imo) and it was less than 200 bucks. its nice and loud when ya get on it, but at 65- 70 down the high way it doesnt just drone like some exhausts do.
Tuned
Joined: Nov 2004
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I wish there weren't so many rednecks around looking to make their trucks as loud as can be. Hate hearing them drive by at 9pm after the kids have gone to bed. Get something that sounds good and melllow. Your neighbors will love you for it.
Straight pipes or glass packs will just make you enemys.
And for gettig the girls at school? They don't care about how loud your truck is. They'd be more impressed that you were mature enough to get an exhaust that they can speak above.
Straight pipes or glass packs will just make you enemys.
And for gettig the girls at school? They don't care about how loud your truck is. They'd be more impressed that you were mature enough to get an exhaust that they can speak above.
Tuned
Joined: Nov 2009
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hey now. dont be trashing rednecks. so what if we have fun? and as to the girls.... most of the girls i know go for the loud *** diesel or gasser with straights. we're young. let us get it out of our systems, and in a few years we'll be sick of it and will put muflers back on. maybe not stock muflers, but something a little quieter. i spent four years in a ranger, im gonna live it up for a while with my v8. 
oh, and not all of us are loud all of the time just because we can be. some of us acutally have common sense and when we go home at night we take it easy so we dont wake people up. it is also good for your gas mileage. if you drive so you dont make any noise, your wallet will thank you.
oh, and not all of us are loud all of the time just because we can be. some of us acutally have common sense and when we go home at night we take it easy so we dont wake people up. it is also good for your gas mileage. if you drive so you dont make any noise, your wallet will thank you.
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I've been reading all this trying to figure out what the obsession with "true duals" is. I am pretty sure the fuel tank is in the way of running equal length pipes back from the manifolds on either side. It is pointless on these trucks anyway. The sensible way to do it is to pick it up after the Y and fit a cat back system. Hacking up the exhaust and making all kinds of crazy bends in it in some effort to get "true duals" is really kind of a silly idea. It isn't going to gain you anything in the way of sound or performance that you can't get by just working after the Y pipe.
Just get yourself a Gibson, Magnaflow or Flowmaster cat back system and be happy. If you want some bling, go for the dual systems offered. No, they are not "true duals" but who cares, there isn't any advantage to true duals anyway as long as you are efficiently scavanging exhaust. On trucks making 210-260 hp and not turning over 5000 rpm going beyond a bolt on system is a complete waste of time, money and energy.
Save the "true duals" baloney for when you get a car capable of some speed and power. Then be sure to fit it with an X-pipe to more efficiently scavange exhaust. Systems that are completely independant side to side do not flow the best.
Just get yourself a Gibson, Magnaflow or Flowmaster cat back system and be happy. If you want some bling, go for the dual systems offered. No, they are not "true duals" but who cares, there isn't any advantage to true duals anyway as long as you are efficiently scavanging exhaust. On trucks making 210-260 hp and not turning over 5000 rpm going beyond a bolt on system is a complete waste of time, money and energy.
Save the "true duals" baloney for when you get a car capable of some speed and power. Then be sure to fit it with an X-pipe to more efficiently scavange exhaust. Systems that are completely independant side to side do not flow the best.
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It doesnt take much to make them sound better.
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Joined: Jul 2008
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From: south carolina
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...austmodels.jpg
here is a link to brefly decribe the differance between x-pipe, y-pipe and tru- duels.
this was just a quick drawing i did so fill free to corect me if i was wrong or to add preferance's. i have the y-pipe w/o mufflers on mine but i also have the factory cats, with 3" chrome tips. this cost me 160 dollers. hope this helps.
here is a link to brefly decribe the differance between x-pipe, y-pipe and tru- duels.
this was just a quick drawing i did so fill free to corect me if i was wrong or to add preferance's. i have the y-pipe w/o mufflers on mine but i also have the factory cats, with 3" chrome tips. this cost me 160 dollers. hope this helps.
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Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Michigan
i don't know if anyone has suggested this but there are many people on youtube who posts videos that have done this if you were looking for type of sound. it's not high quality stuff but it may help.