Last week i bought a K&N FIPK intake 57-2541 for my wife's 01 5.4. Installed and test drove it and wow, what a seat of the pants difference. This is with stock exhaust by the way. Wife complained about it getting bad mileage around town now. After consulting with a few of you on here, we decided it's all good I drove the truck around a little bit today and it was getting great mileage on highways and interstates, but pretty poor mileage in town---stop and go. On the highway doing only 45, level ground and just enough fuel to maintain my speed i reset my MPG gauge and it put out just over 22 MPG. On the interstate doing about 65, level, enough fuel it was going about 18-19. Not to bad, i was very pleased. But around town was another story, it wanted to get to around 10-11 then, worse then it was on the same drive when it was stock. All in all, i love it and would recommend to others!
I ordered a Flowmaster 50 Series Delta muffler, single in single out from my local shop, again after getting opinions from here. It came in today so i went over to have it installed. The guy at the muffler shopped talked me into upgrading to a 3" mandrel bent tail pipe for the same price as 2.5". Not sure why he wanted me to go with that, but for the same price why not. We decided that since i didn't go with a cat back system that i wouldn't loose any back pressure because between my cats and muffler i had 4 bends, plus all the work to get the exhaust over the axle. Got it all welded it up and fired her up and boy did it sound good. It isn't overwelming, even with the windows down, but sounds great running through town. Even when you get on it, it's not to loud at all, but with the sound of the new intake and the new exhaust, it sounds good.
As for the performance notice and mileage difference after adding the exhaust i wasn't please. I couldn't tell any difference in power, actually feels like i did loose some torque. The mileage also fell on it's face, wasn't please with that at all! In all reality, i just counter acted my intake productivity with the exhaust. I can't really explain that one?? It sounds good and the 3" pipe coming out the side looks good, but i don't like the outcome.
Hope this helps someone that's thinking about going the same route
I ordered a Flowmaster 50 Series Delta muffler, single in single out from my local shop, again after getting opinions from here. It came in today so i went over to have it installed. The guy at the muffler shopped talked me into upgrading to a 3" mandrel bent tail pipe for the same price as 2.5". Not sure why he wanted me to go with that, but for the same price why not. We decided that since i didn't go with a cat back system that i wouldn't loose any back pressure because between my cats and muffler i had 4 bends, plus all the work to get the exhaust over the axle. Got it all welded it up and fired her up and boy did it sound good. It isn't overwelming, even with the windows down, but sounds great running through town. Even when you get on it, it's not to loud at all, but with the sound of the new intake and the new exhaust, it sounds good.
As for the performance notice and mileage difference after adding the exhaust i wasn't please. I couldn't tell any difference in power, actually feels like i did loose some torque. The mileage also fell on it's face, wasn't please with that at all! In all reality, i just counter acted my intake productivity with the exhaust. I can't really explain that one?? It sounds good and the 3" pipe coming out the side looks good, but i don't like the outcome.
Hope this helps someone that's thinking about going the same route