Deleting the muffler

[BradR]

I love my truck, but I also love things that make noise. lol.

So, my buddy has a 97 Ranger with the OHV motor, and he got a cat back system put on with a "dual" exhaust (it splits about half way and dumps out the rear corners) and I like the way it sounds, now with the explorer, with the OHV motor, if I just deleted the muffler and put a piece of straight pipe in place of it, I should have enough back pressure right?

I also want a good nice sound too, I'm sorry but when I can hear the actual motor over the exhaust, there's something wrong here, lol.

So I guess what I'm asking is if anyone has any input on doing muffler/straight pipe swap? Or any audio of what it sounds like?

 

[Jd0gg919]

My truck is straight piped. The link in my sig will take you to my registry and my vid should be up there. It's old though, now i have one of my cats removed too. Makes it pop a lot more.

 

[BradR]

Cool Jd0gg919, but your video here, http://video.cardomain.com/VideoPlayer.aspx?id=661577 Isn't working for me.

Anyone else?
I don't plan on dual'ing mine (yet, atleast), just swapping the muffler with pipe for some sound.

 

[Jd0gg919]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRmPWWkY3Y

That should work.

 

[BradR]

Sounds great, but a little tunerish, I like the sound of open headers that sound like pure power, but you know, without burring my valves off, lol.

I guess I'll cut that bad boy out of their and throw in a little pipe and see what it sounds like.

Thanks for the vid Jd!

 

[Jd0gg919]

Yeah man no problem. Just know that you can only get so much of a real power sound out of a V6. Don't set your expectations to high.

 

[BradR]

I don't expect much, If I had the time I'd drop a v8 in, lol.

I'm just sick of accelerating and not hearing anything but "vrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

 

[Jd0gg919]

A straight pipe will definately do the trick. Drive it like you stole it!

 

[2000XPLORERSPORT]

i first cut my muffler off and it was loud! it sounded ok ideling and excelerating, but if you got on it i thought it sounded bad, too loud. so i cut both cats off and put a turbo-2 muffler on. sounds way better.