Xplorer1701
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- Joined
- February 9, 2011
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- City, State
- Minnesota
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 01 xlt 5.0
First off I'd like to say hi to everyone and thank you for creating such an awasom site!
I've been noodling around here for a couple of months now, and what I see you guys (and gals) doing to you trucks is amazing! That being said, I've got a few questions. I have a stock 2001 Explorer XLT with a 5.0, and 139.000 miles. Stock is nice, nice and boreing! 
I don't have a lot of funds right now, so I'm looking for mods to do that will give me the best bang for my buck. But I don't want to put crap on now only to replace it latter with what should have been there in the first place. If that means I wait longer before it happens, so be it. What I'd like to start with is...
MAC air intake
TM headers
True dual exaoust
SCT tuner
For the exaoust set up I was thinking 2.5 pipe size, my hang up is on what muffler set up to use. My cheaper idea is a two in two out flowmaster supper 44, will that work as an X pipe? Otherwise I was thinking of either a Cherry Bomb Vortex two in two out, or a mangaflow X pipe right after the cats with two 29 inch glass packs after that.(Cherry Bomb, naturaly) I favor the last one. I was going to keep the stock cats and downpipe setup. Does any one have any of these set ups, if you do could you let me know how you like them and how loud they are? I want the best flow I can get, but I don't want it super loud either. Louder than stock, but noise is secondary to performace, just as long as the cops like it I'll be happy. If you could rate how loud your set ups are on a 1 to 10 scale, 1 being quite, 5 being stock, and 10 being a county mounty caller.If you have better ideas I would be more than willing to listen, or read, depending on how literal you look at things. Thank you one and all for your input,
Luke
I've been noodling around here for a couple of months now, and what I see you guys (and gals) doing to you trucks is amazing! That being said, I've got a few questions. I have a stock 2001 Explorer XLT with a 5.0, and 139.000 miles. Stock is nice, nice and boreing! I don't have a lot of funds right now, so I'm looking for mods to do that will give me the best bang for my buck. But I don't want to put crap on now only to replace it latter with what should have been there in the first place. If that means I wait longer before it happens, so be it. What I'd like to start with is...MAC air intake
TM headers
True dual exaoust
SCT tuner
For the exaoust set up I was thinking 2.5 pipe size, my hang up is on what muffler set up to use. My cheaper idea is a two in two out flowmaster supper 44, will that work as an X pipe? Otherwise I was thinking of either a Cherry Bomb Vortex two in two out, or a mangaflow X pipe right after the cats with two 29 inch glass packs after that.(Cherry Bomb, naturaly) I favor the last one. I was going to keep the stock cats and downpipe setup. Does any one have any of these set ups, if you do could you let me know how you like them and how loud they are? I want the best flow I can get, but I don't want it super loud either. Louder than stock, but noise is secondary to performace, just as long as the cops like it I'll be happy. If you could rate how loud your set ups are on a 1 to 10 scale, 1 being quite, 5 being stock, and 10 being a county mounty caller.If you have better ideas I would be more than willing to listen, or read, depending on how literal you look at things. Thank you one and all for your input,
Luke
