Truck Exhaust

[WheelieMan4]

I have a 93 Dodge Dakota. It has a V6, 3.9 liter engine. My muffler went bad so i put on a piece of straight pipe from the cadilac converter to my tail pipe. It has a good sound to it and all, except for the popping and backfiring it does when ever i push in the clutch or let off the gas. What should I do about this? Get a new muffler, probably a glasspack, and take off the cadilac and just put it all glasspack muffler in? Or get my valves adjusted or something which will stop the backfire? Thanks alot....

[Hondadudeehhhh]

Get a flowmaster 40 series muffler and get your own pipe bent. With a muffler you won't have an obnoxious sounding vehicle

[redracing88]

get thrush exhaust

[ELewandowski]

Go with a flowmaster and you can just replace your cadalidic converter with some straight pipe.

[Titanium]

if it has the O2 sensors mounted ahead of the catylic converter take the cat off and jus throw a glass pack or flow master on there. if the O2 sensors are mounted behind it get a high flow catylic converter and go from there. also i'd recomend a set of headers.

[coolex]

i highly recomend the flowmaster super 40

[WheelieMan4]

im sure the flowmasters sound good and all, its jus that i dont have 130 dollars to spend on something like that...anything good sounding thats cheaper...?

[Titanium]

Originally posted by WheelieMan4
im sure the flowmasters sound good and all, its jus that i dont have 130 dollars to spend on something like that...anything good sounding thats cheaper...?

glasspacks are pretty cheap i think. well aroun here they are.

[Hondadudeehhhh]

Originally posted by WheelieMan4
im sure the flowmasters sound good and all, its jus that i dont have 130 dollars to spend on something like that...anything good sounding thats cheaper...?

there is a muffler out there for about 35$. I think it's essentially the same as a flowmaster 40 i just can't remember the name. Its like IMCO or something.

[Stevie-D]

:p i had the same problem with my 95 dak with the 3.9. had no cat and two heartthrob glasspack muffler tips mounted to duals out the back. popped and backfired like a sonofa*****. if i were to do it again, i would run a muffler that doesnt use a fiberglass packing. anything like a glasspack is going to pop and crackle with that motor. something like a flowmaster would work great.

[LTZ400rider]

imco single chamber muffler 40 bucks, flowmaster 40 is 2 chambers. the imco is gonna be loud and keep back pressure, straight pipes will lose power on a stock engine. if i were u id just save up and buy a borla muffler and dump it

[ryanh250ex]

buy a small maganflow muffler

the 3.9s sound like chit with flowmasters on them

[WheelieMan4]

how do you think a Thrusher glasspack would sound on it?? thats the only thing that i can get locally and cant order of the internet or anything...so yea, let me know

[la400ex]

If I end up changing my exhaust, I will sell you a flowmaster 40 with a turndown tip for 35 bucks plus shipping if you are interested.

[WheelieMan4]

may be interested....just let me know...but someone said that the flowmaster sounds like crap on a 3.9L so i dunno...

[ShiftFMX]

Imco on a 4.6...

http://www.grabthepower.com/manager/prod_files/05_Ford_F150_4-6.mp3

I had one on my 5.4 but it wasnt loud enough! :devil:

[WheelieMan4]

do you think that would sound good on 3.9? and where can i find the Imco exhaust at? and bout how much? thanks...

[la400ex]

Yea, I have to agree about the flows on a 3.9. Its hard to make a 3.9 sound good man. I heard a cammed 3.9 and it sounded pretty mean for a v6 at idle. http://www.dakota-durango.cohttp://www.exriders.com/vbb/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=234746m/videos3.php Go there and look for slow97 dakotas V6 cam video.

[ShiftFMX]

Look around (http://www.grabthepower.com/index.html)

[Titanium]

Originally posted by ShiftFMX
Imco on a 4.6...

http://www.grabthepower.com/manager/prod_files/05_Ford_F150_4-6.mp3

I had one on my 5.4 but it wasnt loud enough! :devil:

i totally agree. Imco's are really not that loud. ugottabayou has imco's and they just about have the tone down but they just aren't quite loud enough.

[WheelieMan4]

well ive decided between the thrusher glasspack or the magnaflow 40 seriies or something like that...what do you guys think would be best..?

[400eXr1d3rZ]

is dynomax any good?

[Honda4trax250x]

listen, disreguard everything people are telling you


Spintech is the way to go. I have a spintech prostreet on my v-6 that sets off car alarms and sounds very deep, not like a v6 at all

Get the spintech, you will be praising me in the end

[Titanium]

Originally posted by 400eXr1d3rZ
is dynomax any good?

i like dynomax. they have a diff tone than everybody else i think.

[la400ex]

Thats what I'm putting in place of my flowmaster.


Originally posted by Honda4trax250x
listen, disreguard everything people are telling you


Spintech is the way to go. I have a spintech prostreet on my v-6 that sets off car alarms and sounds very deep, not like a v6 at all

Get the spintech, you will be praising me in the end

[440exnacsracer]

if you want it to really sound good, running larger diameter pipe from the cats back will also give you a deeper sound, and with a single stage muffler, it should eliminate the popping.

[ilpadrino113]

just run a 3"pipe from the heads into a high flow cat and put a single stage muffler (any brand of performance muffler, they're all basically the same) on their and it'll sound good.

[WheelieMan4]

my truck now doesnt want to start in the mornings...it hasnt acted up until now and im wondering if its because of the straight pipe i put on...some how?? i doubt it, but u know?????????

[440exnacsracer]

well considering its a dodge, you might want to check the air pressure in the tires or something:D j/k man, but the straight pipe might have something to do with it, engine light come on?

[400exrida06]

I might be getting my Grandpa's dodge dakota in a couple weeks and would like to make this thing look as sweet as possible, do you guys have any ideas? The truck I really wanted to get was a chevy s10 because i love them things but im getting this dodge for free so i wont have to sell my quad or anything, but i dont know what to all put on it.

[400exrules]

my friends ram 1500 has straight pipes, and it wasnt all that loud until he put a high flow cat on, and its loud as hell now