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Old 08-17-2016, 01:56 PM   #1
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i put 2.5 inch pipe and thrush welded 2 chambers on mine but turned them out each side in front of the rear tires. absolutely no drone. was louder than expected until i reduced my cam lift now not really bad at all.
cool, do you have long tube headers? word on the street is long tube headers are more prone to droning than stock exhaust manifolds, I am not sure if there is any truth to that, so just checking in?
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Old 08-18-2016, 12:05 AM   #2
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cool, do you have long tube headers? word on the street is long tube headers are more prone to droning than stock exhaust manifolds, I am not sure if there is any truth to that, so just checking in?
yep. long tubes, albeit small diameter, literally straight 2.5 inch pipe into the mufflers then a 90 degree bend out the side. lines up right under my front spring hanger.
you can just make out the exhaust in front of the rear tire. the plus side is the small (short) cars really love it at the stop lights...i think lol
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Old 08-18-2016, 03:15 AM   #3
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yep. long tubes, albeit small diameter, literally straight 2.5 inch pipe into the mufflers then a 90 degree bend out the side. lines up right under my front spring hanger.
you can just make out the exhaust in front of the rear tire. the plus side is the small (short) cars really love it at the stop lights...i think lol
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OMG Greg are you going to share pics of every time you use the truck? Well duh, yeah!!! JK, ha ha
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Old 08-17-2016, 02:12 PM   #5
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By the way the Safari web browser stinks on the iPhone for forum updates, it only uploads one pic at a time and if you try to upload multiple pics the last one wins and if later you wanna add a second pic it will just replace the first, epic fail
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Old 08-18-2016, 12:12 AM   #6
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just my personal opinion that your drone is caused by dumping the exhaust under the truck. mine droned with the previous exhaust. which was stock manifolds, 2.25 pipe and cheap turbo mufflers dumped in front of the axle. didn't want to spend 150 bucks on the pipes to go over the rear axle so turned mine out the sides.
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Old 08-18-2016, 03:16 AM   #7
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just my personal opinion that your drone is caused by dumping the exhaust under the truck. mine droned with the previous exhaust. which was stock manifolds, 2.25 pipe and cheap turbo mufflers dumped in front of the axle. didn't want to spend 150 bucks on the pipes to go over the rear axle so turned mine out the sides.
hmmm, either it's the angle or yours be a long bed truck, I wonder if the extra length or room for a bit longer exhaust pipe run helps eliminate the drone in your case?
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Old 08-18-2016, 07:54 AM   #8
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I agree if your exhaust is dumped under the bed before I swapped mufflers I be getting tailpipes and getting it to exit.

my dad has a c30 dump. had dumped exhausted ending right before the rear axle for 20+ years. was just LOUD. not even good loud just loud. I swapped a pair of cheapo summit mufflers (think they cost $30 each) and put the exits in front of the back tires. He get complements everywhere he goes now on how awesome the truck sounds.
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my sounded terrible until I went with the full exaust
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Old 08-18-2016, 09:59 AM   #10
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my sounded terrible until I went with the full exaust
what are you running? FlowMasters?
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Old 08-18-2016, 06:38 PM   #11
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thought I would share a pic of a cool cut away of a Flowmaster muffler I saw today at a Hot Rod store while picking up some 90° elbows for my side exits

the flow is right to left <==

[all together now], ahh that's how you make the drone sound LOL
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Old 08-18-2016, 09:29 PM   #12
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alright lets give the side exits a shot to see if that drowns out the drone

so the passenger side first - here it goes
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Is that hot rod store Tognotti's?
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Old 08-19-2016, 12:17 AM   #14
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Is that hot rod store Tognotti's?
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I miss going there. Stuck in socal now a desert wasteland
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Old 08-19-2016, 11:26 PM   #16
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why don't you all grab a beer and follow me to my metal shop and we can take a look at the new and improved side exhaust Flow-a-Masters

took no time at all to cut the down pipes off and weld up some of these 90° elbows

now we are able to spew Carbon Monoxide at two Priuses at the same time whilst stopped at a red light - what's not to like

So is the drone gone? No not all the way gone but believe it or not its better, technically the drone used to be at 1000 RPM and now its at around 800 RPM (this is better on cold starts since with fast idle on your head was a poundin' till the rig warmed up)

so in the pics you can't really tell but they go out to the side and are angled a little bit down
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... take a look at the new and improved side exhaust Flow-a-Masters...

So is the drone gone? No not all the way gone but believe it or not its better, technically the drone used to be at 1000 RPM and now its at around 800 RPM (this is better on cold starts since with fast idle on your head was a poundin' till the rig warmed up)
Good call on the Flowmaster's Gregski.

I cut a Flowmaster off an '04 5.3L F-150 and put on a brand new Magnaflow... to cut the drone. Worked great too.

Then I towed my 5,700 LB (probably closer to 7K with water, groceries and beer loaded) trailer out to Banff, Alberta through the Mountains. That little 5.3 Triton was turning pretty fast getting up the big hills.

By the time I got home, the exhaust from those 5500+ RPM hills had pounded the glass baffles in the Magnaflow flat and the truck droned worse than ever.
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Took no time at all to cut the down pipes off and weld up some of these 90° elbows.
Now we are able to spew Carbon Monoxide at two Priuses at the same time whilst stopped at a red light...
So funny.

I have no problems with hybrids -- just ugly cars like the Prius. Apparently the "look at me I'm an ugly hybrid" style makes a statement about the owner being environmentally conscious and morally superior.
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So funny.

I have no problems with hybrids -- just ugly cars like the Prius. Apparently the "look at me I'm an ugly hybrid" style makes a statement about the owner being environmentally conscious and morally superior.
The only thing worse than a Prius in front of you on the freeway is a Prius with an Uber sticker, and the only thing worse than that is a Prius with an Uber and a Lyft sticker!

Fact: Uber and Lyft stickers (subtract 10 MPH per sticker from the vehicles speed) are the opposite of Holey and MSD (add 20 horse power each)
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not a huge fan of the Felpro header collector white gaskets, this one parished after only a couple hundred miles of service, now I aint sure if its by design that they are supposed to get this brittle after heating up, or cause its that they've been sitting on the O'Really's shelf since the Pilgrims brought them over on the Mayflower
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love seeing it go from 16" at idle to 0" at Wide Open throttle to 23" of vacuum at off throttle while cruising
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Hey Greg. You know any exhaust system changes call for the obligatory sound clip right?
And I have been thinking I might like to have a a/f meter for tuning. That's the first one in cab I've seen.
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Hey Greg. You know any exhaust system changes call for the obligatory sound clip right?
ha ha, it's really nothing to write home about, as the resonators tamed the rumble / raspines, but I will see what I can do

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And I have been thinking I might like to have a a/f meter for tuning. That's the first one in cab I've seen.
go for it you will wonder how you ever tuned without one, and by the way these days seems like everyone is offering these gauges (even Holley), but I am very happy with the INNOVATE products especially the ease of use and quality of the actual hardware
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the manual steering box rebuild kit arrived so it was time to git er done
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Old 08-21-2016, 10:08 AM   #25
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I figured I can delay it some more by doing whats completely un necessary...

come on we've all been there

time to remove the casting crests (those of you who followed along the engine rebuild know I did this to the block as well) you know those SEMA judges, picky picky - ha ha
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