Post your turn down exhaust pictures!
 

I'm about to order my 2.5" Dynomax Bullets and Magnaflow X-Pipe but I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the tips or lack of tips.

Come on guys, I know you're out there. So lets see what those set-ups look like!

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i think it looks badass when you have dumped exhaust with a fat tip (5"+) if you are high enough. I think your truck could pull it off you are pretty high.

I like that kind of set-up too but I'm going to be running true duals so it'd look a little goofy with two big 5" tips down there!! :lol:

Just make it really loud!! A truck your size should really be loud!!!

just leave it the same, and do a muffler swap and add the x pipe!

well if you are going to go with tips i think i remember you went duals out the back because you were stock and that looked better but behind the rear wheels looked better lifted. so id say behind the rear wheels on your lifted truck. the tips on your last truck looked good. i like my setup too:thumbsup:

i think that would look bad ass!!!!

x2!! i think your tips look awesome, i love it straight out the back mine are that way too. just do muffler swaps. are you currently running 2.5" pipes all the way?? im about to do bullet true duals also.

How much does exhaust sound bother you. Without running the exhaust out the back of the truck.. it can get loud or drone inside the cab.

You could just use turndowns with tips on them... 3.5"-4" tips.

Tips change the sound somewhat.

Run regular turndowns and then add a couple cheap ebay tips.

LOL I think some of you are missing what I'm doing. I want to run them dumped underneath the truck.

I don't care about sound, I've got Nitto Mud Grapplers, the noise isn't going to bother me.

I'm running 2.25" tubing right now but I'm going to get it switched to 2.5" tubing.

dumped before the axle or after, either way i think tips are a waste of money on those set ups, i put a tip on mine after the axle, got lazy and now i looks liek ****, cant even tel there was a tip there to begin with!

I'm thinking about doing these tips turned down before the rear axle.

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

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I am wanting to do something just like this on my 2 wheel drive. I am lowering my truck 2/5. What would be the best way to do it? Would I get aftermarket headers and go back from there with 2.5" tubing to the x-pipe, then back to the mufflers then dump? I am going to dump them before the axle. What would I do about the Cats, get hi-flow?

I think whatever you do you should try to get the big diameter starting as close to the muff as possible. I hate the look of a short fat tip hanging off the end of small tubing. You can still run the 2.5 inside the big tip as far as you want to keep performance. There are a ton of ways to go under there so it really depends on what diameter you want to end at. I don't know if it matters to you but the Magnaflow tips turn a bit gold (maybe all the ss do) and it really annoyed me with the chrome/black themed truck. I painted mine black and think it looks a little meaner. Why do you want to switch to dual 2.5 over the 2.25? Are you worried about losing low torque? I'd add the x and new muffs and then have the shop bend the 2.5 and run inside fat turn downs like this http://www.magnaflow.com/02product/s...e=main&id=1077 and weld the fatties right over the 2.5 right to the back of the muffs. Slash them where you felt necessary.

Thump.. You shouldn't have to order any turn downs. Your exhaust shop should be able to fabricate you dumps right there. The guy I go to has made me 2 so far.
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Its the stainless steel that turns them gold.

I know they can bend me turn downs, I'm just not sure if I want to go with tips on the end of them.

hey ill try and remember to get a pic of mine tomorrow. true dual 2.5" into a DI/DO Magnaflow and then dumped before the axle-all stainless mandrel pipe.

all i have is a video of mine

and you can see it in the very beginning if you look. its very nice sounding


just for kicks, listen to it and tell me if it sounds deep or not? :)
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dude that tip looks bad ass!!!! i would run two of these!!!
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here is what i just order im making it so it comes out in front of my right rear tire though.
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its a bully dog stainless steel tip 5" out and 4" in, got it off jeg's and it was only $80 half the other one

what? is this hearsay, internet BS, or fact? i have a hard time believing that a different diameter for the last 8-10" of pipe can make any noticeable difference in performance.

Here ya go-dont mind the beer gut in the reflection.

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Black3v how does your exhaust sound? Happen to have a sound clip?

why are you doing it?

Pretty damn loud under boost-sorry no exhaust clip-I have been meaning to do that.

Thumper I have the setup your looking for, True Dual Straight pipe(2.5"), W an H, and 2, 4" Tips as turndowns. I'll try and get a pic up, I don't have the lightning style anymore, but the tips in my gallery are the ones I used for the turndowns.

Also, just a word of advice, I'd go with an H pipe instead of an X on our trucks, unless your supercharged or turbocharged. :thumbsup:

I hear you about the H pipe versus the X pipe since a H pipe is going to provide more torque. I was doing it for the mere sound purposes and I couldn't find a H-Pipe online. I might end up just doing a standard turn down out of the muffler like Black3V's got. .

I really like those but I wonder if they make them in 2.5" inlet. :coffee:

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Heres one of my sound clips, i believe this one was before i gutted my precats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjBOIg6N0Y

And here is a clip i did cruisin down the highway, the camera is a little sensative tho...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI3gz9LrFgg

And a little fun i did on the highway passing a slower car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPumpSnCyR0

And finally idling at a light and then taking off, did this to show the efan light. (I had the windows down)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeucpZk6Qm4

Idling on a cold morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBOj0ymC1VU




UPDATED 10-16-2008

https://www.f150online.com/forums/ex...n-bullets.html Full details in that thread

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It may not make a noticeable difference on that short run but then again the overall system is very short when dumped. And it's far from hearsay and what not but short of side by side dyno I can't say it's fact either. Besides what I've read here, I talked with several exhaust shops about diameters as I wanted to go as big as possible and they all said the same thing about losing low end torque when going big. Go 2.5 at the absolute biggest for dual and the longer the better for torque due to pipe friction backpressure. They said the torque will come in a few hundred rpm later if you get too big and lose too much backpressure. If adding dumped tips you can't see the inside anyway so why not run the 2.5 as far as possible. If this is not true I hope someone will chime in bc I'd prefer bigger diameter pipes for looks and I'm getting ready to change up my system again.

have you thought about removing two of your cats? has anyoen else done that? I remember josiah I think removed his precats and it sounded pretty badass. ive been thinking about doing that but never got around to it

I only have two cats. ;)

But he removed the rear two cats since the 02 sensors are in front of them.

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i was thinking of standard-ass oem config exhaust when i made my original post. i just can't see that a 3" tip on the last 8" of exhaust is going to make a difference one way or another. i liken it to the same drivel i hear from wanna be gear heads that say they muffler added 20 hp on their honda or that splitfire sparkplugs and accel wires added 15 hp on their tercel.

we are talking tips here, right? if so, i want to see the exhaust shop that dyno'd the same vehicle back to back with nothing more than a exhaust tip change to document the "couple hundred PRM difference". of course, if you're talking about a enlarging a whole system, then that's a whole different animal.

I hate you guys! I just ordered my H Pipe and Dynomax mufflers . . :lol:

I think I'm going to go cut my exhaust off. :coffee:

hey thump, off topic, how much was the linex and did you have linex of orlando do it?

If you dump do it after the axle.. Soooo much quiter and less drone in the cab.

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I always get compliments on my exhaust. So it can't sound that bad.

It's not going to matter where I dump it. My tires are too loud to make a difference. I'm running nothing right now and its not even that loud in the truck with the windows up. LOL

I think it was $300-400, I'm not sure but I know I got a good deal on it compared to other Line-X stores. It was at the DeLand location. :thumbsup:

Thump, what H pipe did you go with?

Slick, I never said there was a side by side dyno and I already agreed that on that short of a run it may not make a difference. At the same time it definitely wouldn't hurt to run it full length.

Summit Racing has a universal H-Pipe, it was only like $35. :thumbsup:

Do you happen to have a sound clip of your exhaust? I am still trying to figure out what I want to go with.