Getting my exhaust done tomorrow-straight pipes

[babysilk]

Trying to keep it as cheap as possible. Going to run straight pipes all the way back. No mufflers and dumped before the rear axle. Keeping all 4 stock cats and no x or y pipes. Will it be loud enough is my question

 

[FordandPolaris]

I have a glasspack in place of my muffler, no other modifications. I used to have the stock tailpipe going the rest of the way back, but it didn't sound much different than stock to me so I cut it off. Now it also dumps just before the rear axle. Has a nice deep tone to it, but to me it is not extremely loud.

 

[superexpy]

It will sound good but be slower. I had 3" single with no muffler and I lost a lot of tork so I put a flowmaster on and got my tork back. Im also supercharged so Its kind of weird that no muffler slowed me down.

 

[ArtGamer60]

+1 to what superexpy said , we found out that at the track with no back pressure or lack of ? torque and low end grunt suffered noticeably .

 

[camoford4x4]

Strait pipe is a bad idea.. #1 the sound is horrible compared to a flowmaster...#2 u loose a lot of power, even putting a glass pack for $30 would be better... Its a piece of cake to install a muffler, and u get a much better sound!

 

[mc0311grunt]

Sounds like crap when straight piped. Put a flowmaster on it. I had a bullet muffler on mine and performance suffered. Put a flowbastard on and it sounds good and gained performance back

 

[babysilk]

Well here's the thing. For the last two years my exhaust set up has been stock pipe, no muffler to the rear axle. Banged it up pretty good offroad and had to chop it all the way to the cats. So I'm going to straight pipe it and live with it for a while. If I don't like it then I'll play around with it more when I've got some extra money.

 

[ArtGamer60]

I hear ya about the money situation , it goes so fast these days , You should be ok with your exhaust project to complete later as you are keeping your cats , otherwise you could run into additional problems with the tuning via sensors to ECU . If you can keep them in the stock locations , as there is a delay that times the sensors to the ECU . * adjusts air / fuel mixture #

 

[tallsville]

is that why you moved from the oc? so you wouldn't have to put a muffler back on to pass smog.

 

[1997SCEBFEX]

my .02:
it'll be loud for sure. unless an ORV, how do/will you get around noise ordnances?
+1 on degraded performance over time; even the smallest muffler of some kind will keep the backpressure near normal.

PanHandler.

 

[rtbrjason]

Agree with the above.. I've not done straight pipes on this truck but in previous vehicles it's always been a mistake. Add any muffler or even a resonator for a much nicer deep tone and keep your torques.

 

[babysilk]

1997scebfex- I live way outside city limits. One sheriff on a first name basis. Not too worried about it being too loud considering my trucks quiet compared to most trucks around here.

I didn't notice much of a loss in power because my previous exhaust was dumped before the muffler. I would like to ultimately add flowmaster 40 series mufflers on or even a couple cherry bombs and shorten up the pipes a tad. That all takes money though, so for now im going to keep it the way it is.