Sometimes, it doesn't pay to go to a shop

[Zorin]

Hey, gang! Wanted to share this with you......

4 months ago, I went to an exhaust shop, and had a Flowmaster and a tip put on my Explorer. This was bad decision. For one, the Flowmaster was way too loud, but I willing to cope with it until......the Flowmaster broke a baffle and began rattling. So, I decided that I would just man up, and replace the muffler myself, along with the crappy tip the guy installed. When I looked under it, I just about came unglued. Here's the parts I removed this morning:

Great quality, right?

So, once I saw that, popped for the Magnaflow catback and installed that today -

I paid $325 for the 50 series Flowmaster and tip installed, and paid $500 for the Magnaflow full catback. I can tell you the Magnaflow is worlds better in sound, not to mention quality. It may cost a little bit more up front, but had I known that the shop was going to do work this bad, it would not have been a tough call.

Hopefully I will have a sound clip soon, I'm also doing some other work to the Explorer right now....the alternator began squeaking, so I am replacing the alternator, the tensioner, and one idler pulley that seemed sketchy, and should have it all back together tomorrow.

Tim

 

[MotorCityFats13]

this is why you dont let them take it off the lift until they give you a full walk around these welds look like something I did with my flux core harbor freight welder

exhaust sounds are like vanilla or chocolate pudding its not all cut and dry one size fits all kind of sound
if I had a 4.6 i would have to do a 3" single flowmaster 40 series and just deal with the drone since I like it....my 1999 roush f-150 had that setup and my 2004 cobra a cut off the stock mufflers and pasted in 2 40's I had a friend that went through 4 magnaflo muflers on his ram 4.7 and they all sounded lame and you definitely dont want to skimp on the tip its very important