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| Which muffler do you have? Just wondering which muffler everyone is running and why they chose it. I left the stock muffler on my Ranger for the first 2 years. I switched to a Flowmaster because I wanted something that sounded a little better. My mistake was I went to the local muffler shop and just told them "I want a Flowmaster muffler." They installed a "super 40" series because that's what all the kids were buying and that's what they stocked. They gave me a single 3" in duel 2.5" out into 4 Gibson tips. While many people told me it looked and sounded GREAT, I couldn't take the noise. It was LOUD. The interior resonance drove me crazy. I also lost ALL my low end. My 0-60 times dropped. This on a engine that was already weak from 0-60. My MPG went down a bit also. I'd say about .25 to .50 MPG. Must admit my 50-85 mph times improved. Passing 18 wheelers and motor-homes on a 2 lane became much less "dramatic." After about 1 year I couldn't stand it anymore and I took the Flowmaster off and replaced it. I got a MagnaFlow. Single 2.25" in and duel 2" out into the same 4 gibson tips. Although it's still a bit louder than I'd like, (guess I'm getting old.) it's a sound I can live with. Hopefully this small annoyance will disappear after I finish sound deadening the floor. Now that I have the correct pipe size again, the low end performance (such as it is) has returned. The duel exhaust is probably hurting me a bit, but it's the look and sound I was after. I can live with the small loss in performance, some of which I regained when I got the programmer. My seat of the pants gauge tell me I've gained very little if anything in the way of performance. Maybe 2-3 HP. I'm sure the improvement would be greater if I had moded the engine more. With a basically stock engine, I feel all I gained was the sound I wanted. That's OK with me.:thumbsup: |
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| Re: Which muffler do you have? I can't stand the noise some of thopse systems make and I often wonder how the driver can stand it. I'm surprised you lost performance. If anything I would have thought freeing up the exhaust would have got you an extra horse or two. But I guess not in that application.
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| Re: Which muffler do you have? I dualed my F150 w/crosspipe & use mufflers off a Cobra Mustang....just right, kinda quiet even. I noticed it freed up engine...revs quiker..which helps with power. 4.6s run better at higher rpms....these did the trick. |
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| Re: Which muffler do you have? Hi guys, Im from the Fight Rice community and well here is my first post on this website. My Dads 04 F-150 has a nice Magnaflow muffler on it, nice deep tone and not too loud. Well i know its not a Ford but my Shadow has a Dynomax Super Turbo muffler with no Cat. It is pretty quiet at idle but when you get the RPM's up, it sure sounds nice. Doesnt echo like a fartcan, its got a nice deep tone.
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