Wondering about exhaust......please help

[ford5_0]

I've been thinkin about upgrading the exhaust on my '99 explorer sport....i want to hear the darn thing when i start it up, wanna hear it rumbling loud at idle...now i know i only have like 246 cubic inches to play with here, so i know it cant really sound like a big block, but i want it loud...not just when im on the gas, when im sittin at the stop light...but anyway, i need someone to tell me if i can achieve this sound by just buying a new muffler only, like a flowmaster 40 series, and gettin someone to take off the old one and put in the new one with minor modifications to make it fit, or if i would have to buy a cat=back system, which i dont really want to spend the cash on that.....thanks....

 

[Jac78]

I have the muffler that you're looking into on my '92, the Flowmaster 40 series. I've had it for more than sixth months and I can tell you these things for sure.

1)On a cold start up you will barely notice it's there. Now if the engine is warm, like say after a drive to the store, it'll turn heads on the start up!!

2)It won't be heard at a stoplight just idling. Unless you rev up, but just standing there, No. However while driving and accelerating the Flowmaster sounds great! I love downshifting and accelerating under an overpass just to hear the echo the Flowmaster makes!

3)A muffler shop could just take out the stock muffler and put in the Flowmaster like you asked. That's what I did in mine, then you save on buying new pipes.

I don't know if this made a difference. But a few months before getting my Flowmaster my "resonator" fell off. So it's just straight 2.25" pipe after the muffler, I don't know if that affected the sound or not.

So all in all I like the sound and power I got after the installation. Hope this helps...

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~jorge*
'92 V6 4X4
Flowmaster Exhaust
KKM Tru-Rev

 

[Rick]

I just replaced my two piece cat with a one piece hi-flow cat. It definately sounds much better at idle and while accelerating.


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Rick Horwitz
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explorer@4x4central.com

www.4x4central.com

 

[rpenner54]

Rick what did that run you to get the high-flow cat? Is it 50 state/carb legal? Does it bolt in right at where the headers end like the stock one does? I was thinking about getting one of these when I put my new headers in just so I get the total exhaust done.



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Ryan Penner
1992 Explorer Sport

 

[fordguy]

Jac78 (or anybody else who can answer):

I want to put a new muffler on my 92 XLT, and I have a pair of 2 chamber flowmasters that I just pulled off of my 93 Cobra to put new mufflers on. The Flows off the Cobra have the off-set inlet/outlet. they are the ovals. Can I put one of these on the Explorer? I have looked underneath the car and it seems there just might be enough room to fit it. The Explorer has the stock round muffler on it. Is the muffler you have on yours a round or the oval type flowmaster?

Thanks alot!

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1992 Explorer XLT
1993 Mustang Cobra
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[fordguy]

You can disregard everything I asked in that last post.....I was actually thinking that the sound deadning tube( cannot remember what it is called) was the muffler...DOH! Anway, I changed out the muffler to a Magnaflow and got rid of the tube. I have to be honest, I don't like the way it sounds with this muffler...too loud and not the right sound for a Explorer IMO, so tomorrow I am swapping it out for a Dynomax. I hope it sounds better, and I know it will be much quieter.

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1992 Explorer XLT
1993 Mustang Cobra
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