2004 f150
 

What's the best and least expensive way to make my truck louder? I'm looking for that old Ford sound my 94 sounded beautiful. Is there any way I could replicate that sound on a 2004 model

Least expensive...sawzall


Best and least expensive, either remove or replace the muffler.

That's what I was thinking to. Will that really make a huge difference. No muffler? I've never done that to a vehicle so Idk exactly.

I went with a Mbrp cat back system and love the sound, lots of complements too.

There are a bunch of people that have replaced the muffler with a straight pipe they will likely chime in shortly

I was looking at a Magbaflow system I'm gonna look into what you said

I just bought my 04 almost 2 weeks ago. It had stock exhaust up to the muffler then had a flowmaster 40 single in dual out with 3 inch chrome tips. I'm used to my 93 bronco with true dual "18 glaspacks and a 5.8 or my 77 with a bored out 360 true duals with "16 glasspack. Needless to say the rattling 5.4 with stock cats and flowmaster didn't impress me none. I went straight to the muffler shop where they cut the section of pipe between the muffler and the y pipe and replaced it with"3 pipe. I'm not sure what size ford uses but That did make it noticeably louder. I then did the gotts mod or dwv mod and that made a hell of a difference on the tone. It sounded pretty mean and growled nicely. I don't expect flames out of the tailpipes like my 77 but I do like the rumble and pop of the glasspack but I also like the deep sounding tones of the flowmaster sound so I decided to go back to the muffler shop and have the rear cats removed. That made it a little louder and allows a little more rumble but still no crackling or popping. I'm expecting a 10 series muffler to arrive tomorrow and hopefully install it this weekend. I'll keep you posted on the progress. Hope this helps.

Very very helpful I go to a local muffler shop real cool with the guy I'm gonna show him this and see about how much this set up will hit me. Let me know how the 10 sounds tho

Before I bought the truck I thought it had stock exhaust based on the previous owners description, I found it on cl. Anticipating having to add duals I called my muffler guy the day prior to ask what it would run me adding a cat back single in dual out with chrome tips and he quoted me about $350 depending which muffler I chose. I'll let you know when I get the 10 on.