mp88
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Hello everyone. After the search of which muffler to get to give my Explorer a beefier sound, I decided to get myself a Flowmaster 40 Series Delta Flow. Being the amateur car-fixer-upper (mechanic was too professional of a word to credit myself with) that I am, I didn't know exactly where to start when it came to actually installing one of these bad boys. So I figured a thread on here would be helpful to anyone else loking to install an aftermarket muffler with little experience and no welder.
For this project I used: a Flowmaster 40 Series Delta Flow, 2, 2.25" to 2" adapters, 1, 2" to 2" muffler extension, 2, 2.25" clamps and 3, 2" clamps.
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Note: To avoid using an adapter and just use one the one extension, measure your pipes before you actually get the muffler. In my case, the pipe was 2".
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Alrighty. For this to be possible: first, you need one of these.
1, 1994 Ford Explorer XLT
And one of these:
1, Flowmaster 40 series muffler
The first thing I did (to keep out of the cold) was attach and clamp the 2.25" to 2" adapters on to the Flowmaster to end up looking something like this:
Proceed to jack the side of the car up and make sure it is safely supported with jackstands (the one in the middle is holding the stock muffler up).
Then, using a cutting tool of your choice make the cuts here
And here
And so your cuts should look something like this
and this
Make sure to wire brush any rusty chips or anything off of the pipes.
Here is the old muffler
The next thing to do is cut that extension (I cut mine at 5-1/2", use your best judgement)
Then, as easy as the old one came off, (while supporting the Flowmaster with a jack or something similar) clamp the intake part of the muffler onto the exhaust pipe from the engine.
After that slide the exhaust pipe into the extension, and the extension into the Flowmaster. Clamp it nice and tight and...
Voilla! You're done.
Time spent not playing video games (including set up and clean up): 2 1/2 hours!
Take the Explorer out for a test drive. In some cases it takes a while for the actual sound to kick in. My Flowmaster sounded excellent right off the bat and only got better.
Hope this helped a few people and good luck!
(For any of you guys that know a lot more than what I'm doing, feel free to add anything)
[Edit: Make sure you read the future posts of this link. These guys have pointed out a crucial mistake I made by not welding on a new hanger.
Oh, and here's what she sounded like the day after I put the muffler on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4RzKcspj50
For this project I used: a Flowmaster 40 Series Delta Flow, 2, 2.25" to 2" adapters, 1, 2" to 2" muffler extension, 2, 2.25" clamps and 3, 2" clamps.
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Note: To avoid using an adapter and just use one the one extension, measure your pipes before you actually get the muffler. In my case, the pipe was 2".
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Alrighty. For this to be possible: first, you need one of these.
1, 1994 Ford Explorer XLT
And one of these:
1, Flowmaster 40 series muffler
The first thing I did (to keep out of the cold) was attach and clamp the 2.25" to 2" adapters on to the Flowmaster to end up looking something like this:
Proceed to jack the side of the car up and make sure it is safely supported with jackstands (the one in the middle is holding the stock muffler up).
Then, using a cutting tool of your choice make the cuts here
And here
And so your cuts should look something like this
and this
Make sure to wire brush any rusty chips or anything off of the pipes.
Here is the old muffler
The next thing to do is cut that extension (I cut mine at 5-1/2", use your best judgement)
Then, as easy as the old one came off, (while supporting the Flowmaster with a jack or something similar) clamp the intake part of the muffler onto the exhaust pipe from the engine.
After that slide the exhaust pipe into the extension, and the extension into the Flowmaster. Clamp it nice and tight and...
Voilla! You're done.
Time spent not playing video games (including set up and clean up): 2 1/2 hours!
Take the Explorer out for a test drive. In some cases it takes a while for the actual sound to kick in. My Flowmaster sounded excellent right off the bat and only got better.
Hope this helped a few people and good luck!
(For any of you guys that know a lot more than what I'm doing, feel free to add anything)
[Edit: Make sure you read the future posts of this link. These guys have pointed out a crucial mistake I made by not welding on a new hanger.
Oh, and here's what she sounded like the day after I put the muffler on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4RzKcspj50