Mok, Alan (SPB Brentwood) wrote:
>
> If you like the sound by all means do it.
>
> The cat should provide enough back pressure so you won't lose any
> torque/midrange. Plus you take a few pounds off the back end.
>
> BTW, I think you'll get burn exhaust valves from a plugged exhaust and
> not a free flowing one.
>
> Alan
>
> '98 Dakota R/T (Headers, FABM & waiting for Shift kit)
> '89 Mustang GT (347, Griggs, S-trim...)
> Ducati 916 (someday)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boog318@aol.com [mailto:Boog318@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 4:55 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: No muffler
>
> Went down to see a friend at his muffler shop yesterday.
> He had a new 318 Dak
> sitting out front that he just put twice-pipes on. He
> threw me the keys and
> said start it. It sounded really nice. Revved it up,
> quiet too (relatively).
> He said now look underneath. No muffler.
> The cat took care of the sound.
> Now I wonder if, with headers, can we do this to our
> trucks? Or is there
> going to be too little back-pressure? I dont need to
> burn up my exhaust
> valves.
> Hmmmmm.......
> Boog
I ran a staight pipe after cat for a while (short while), when I did it
I didn't seem to lose any torque. But I put on a flowtech Terminator
muffler w/ a turndown and it seemed to gain a noticeable amount of
lowend power, with no noticeable decrease in higher RPM power.
Running it out the back may create enough bacpressure that it would
still gain torque, but I dont know.
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