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After reading all the posts about straight pipes, hearing the faint whistle of the turbo in my truck (and vivid memories of my old whistler turbo deuce....) and knowing the "cork" the stock muffler undoubtedly is in the exhaust, I dug around the garage, found a couple old 4" mandrel bends from projects years ago and a friend had a piece of 4" straight for free.
About 4 hours of work on Sunday in the driveway and I've totally changed the personality of the truck.
My original muffler had a leaking rust crack about 1.5" long at the bottom (could smell it in the cab, undoubtedly where moisture has sat) and it was VERY rusty.
What better excuse to ditch that thing and get to the straight pipe!
I was able to salvage the lower V-Band clamp arrangement from the muffler and welded it to the bends and straight that then connect to the original stack (I like the original look). The original stack/upper V-band clamp was beyond saving, rusted away.
Wanting to preserve the original look as much as possible, I maintained the muffler heat shield and painted the whole pipe with flat black heat paint on the bottom and camo black on the top.
Folks, I can't say enough how it's changed the entire personality of the truck.
Yes, it's louder than stock, definitely in the cab. But FAR from LOUD and stock is almost silent, after all!
The first person who'd be all over the noise like flies on stink would be my better half if it was too loud.
So I laid into the throttle a little on it's maiden voyage as I left the house and asked her how it sounded when I returned.
"Sounded good! Nope, no problem". Sweet!
A lot of the noise could be redirected with a change in upper stack configuration; maybe pointing straight up (with a flapper?), or up with a bologna cut or.....
It feels SO much smoother getting up to speed now. Not "laboring" whatsoever.
The biggest tell-tale was how it seems to go through the gears at such a faster rate and pulls and pulls.......
I can only imagine what a few turns of the fuel screw would do in addition to the stack. Whew!
I love this truck.
About 4 hours of work on Sunday in the driveway and I've totally changed the personality of the truck.
My original muffler had a leaking rust crack about 1.5" long at the bottom (could smell it in the cab, undoubtedly where moisture has sat) and it was VERY rusty.
What better excuse to ditch that thing and get to the straight pipe!
I was able to salvage the lower V-Band clamp arrangement from the muffler and welded it to the bends and straight that then connect to the original stack (I like the original look). The original stack/upper V-band clamp was beyond saving, rusted away.
Wanting to preserve the original look as much as possible, I maintained the muffler heat shield and painted the whole pipe with flat black heat paint on the bottom and camo black on the top.
Folks, I can't say enough how it's changed the entire personality of the truck.
Yes, it's louder than stock, definitely in the cab. But FAR from LOUD and stock is almost silent, after all!
The first person who'd be all over the noise like flies on stink would be my better half if it was too loud.
So I laid into the throttle a little on it's maiden voyage as I left the house and asked her how it sounded when I returned.
"Sounded good! Nope, no problem". Sweet!
A lot of the noise could be redirected with a change in upper stack configuration; maybe pointing straight up (with a flapper?), or up with a bologna cut or.....
It feels SO much smoother getting up to speed now. Not "laboring" whatsoever.
The biggest tell-tale was how it seems to go through the gears at such a faster rate and pulls and pulls.......
I can only imagine what a few turns of the fuel screw would do in addition to the stack. Whew!
I love this truck.
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