Straight Pipe?
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Straight Pipe?
Hey guys Its pretty obvious that I don't know very much about trucks and engines. But I am wanting to get a better sound out of my engine (351), and I was thinking about just cutting off the stock muffler. Is this a bad idea? Do you think it will be too loud or not produce a good sound? And will it do any damage to my engine?
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you can really wake these trucks up by removing or replacing the cats if you go with replacing them get some hi-flo cats and a glasspack or some other type of muffler, and headers will wake it up HP and noise wise, im thinking about straight pipe with a x pipe
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When I had my 88 with a 302 I chopped off the muffler and put on a straight pipe. Was gonna do cherry bomb but the shop said with the cats on there it would be muffled enough and it'd get a better sound with a straight pipe. They were right.
On a side note I was driving down the road today and my tailpipe rotted out right behind the muffler. So I need to get a new tailpipe and will also probably delete the muffler while I'm at it. Problem I see with dumping the muffler is that the exhaust coming out of the cat and where it matches up to the tailpipe is not a straight line. The cat would enter the bottom of the muffler and then exit out the top of it so I think you'd need to take it to a muffler shop and have them custom bend the small piece of tailpipe to fit the place where the muffler once was.
On a side note I was driving down the road today and my tailpipe rotted out right behind the muffler. So I need to get a new tailpipe and will also probably delete the muffler while I'm at it. Problem I see with dumping the muffler is that the exhaust coming out of the cat and where it matches up to the tailpipe is not a straight line. The cat would enter the bottom of the muffler and then exit out the top of it so I think you'd need to take it to a muffler shop and have them custom bend the small piece of tailpipe to fit the place where the muffler once was.
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