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Aug 25, 2010 | 08:29 PM

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Otahyoni

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First run...
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Aug 25, 2010 | 09:39 PM

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Coalroller, your truck will be much quiter than mine because it is turbo. I think mine is worse than an open pipe big block...

sorry bud i forgot you didnt have a turbo and from the vid... sounds pretty good! i really like the look of them with the flat bed!

Aug 26, 2010 | 06:33 AM

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I love the sound, but not the volume. I've got a couple turbo mufflers i'm going to try to cram on there (free solutions first...

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I've got to finish the other bed side and paint the stacks. They're kinda a pain to get into place so i'm not really looking forward to it.

Aug 26, 2010 | 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by ghunt

Stacks are really loud even with a muffler, no matter if you're turbo or not. I had to use a muffler and a spiral-flow in each stack and it's still a little louder than I'd like.

Funny thing is, when i had a single 5" stack it sounded great. Now with twin 3" stacks it's painfully loud at and above 2200rpm.

Aug 26, 2010 | 08:48 AM

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Funny thing is, when i had a single 5" stack it sounded great. Now with twin 3" stacks it's painfully loud at and above 2200rpm.

Well, your setup is a little different from mine, but I think that splitting the pipe makes it sound quite a bit different. For example on my truck I was running 4" pipe back to the one muffler I have under the truck now, and out the side in front of the rear wheel. It sounded great and was not overly loud unless I was really standing on it.

But, taking that same muffler and running it up through stacks, it was REALLY loud, and resonated so bad it would give me a headache. I've tried everything I can think of but I cannot replicate that sound with stacks. I have wondered if a single stack would do it but I don't really have anything set up for a single. *shrugs*

Aug 26, 2010 | 07:08 PM

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Funny thing is, when i had a single 5" stack it sounded great. Now with twin 3" stacks it's painfully loud at and above 2200rpm.

well you may have the flow of a single 6 but the smaller the pipe you use, the higher the pitch. i would suggest at LEAST a 5 inch system. my old ford with a single 5 was loud but wasnt that loud and it didnt drone. and i had dual 2.25's with 30 inch glasspacks. and it was so loud i could feel the pop of the glasspacks in my chest when going up a hill trying to make 55mph at the top.

Aug 26, 2010 | 08:31 PM

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So i got it done, but i forgot my camera. It's very quiet now, almost too quiet, but i'll deal with it. Pics tomorrow...

Aug 27, 2010 | 10:51 PM

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Aug 27, 2010 | 10:55 PM

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New tires tomorrow...

Aug 28, 2010 | 01:33 PM

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I'll do this here so i don't start a new thread.

Before, shortly after i got the truck:

Added/changed:
Injectors
Injection pump
Master cylinder (x2)
Brake Booster (x2)
New Bed
Stacks
New tires/wheels

As it sits today:

Couple poser shots:

^the left taillight was about chest high...

What do y'all think?

Aug 28, 2010 | 01:37 PM

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how u hook the stacks

Aug 28, 2010 | 01:42 PM

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I welded a turbo muffler to each tail pipe and ran flexible exhaust tubing from there to the inlet on the stacks. Each stack only gets one bank of cylinders. Left stack is the left 4, right stack is the right 4...

Hey Joe, I've got 37's too... I'm gaining on ya...