I was able to get a good deal on a fake flowmaster exhaust. It was put on with the stock pipes. This is on my F150 99 4.2. The question is what can I do to this exhaust to make it sound deeper? I dont want to loose back presure to the motor. I would like to know what the differnce are between these set ups. 1. Put a 3 inch tip right at the end of the exhaust under the truck? 2. Run a st8t pipe out the rear of the truck with a 3 inch tip? 3. Keep the stock pipe the way it is now stock with a 3 inch tip.

 

Which brand was it? What was the model #? Which shop sold it to you?

 

What's a "fake flowmaster exhaust?"

 

basically a knock off. supposedly there was like a year when flowmaster lost its patent and some other companies started making their mufflers. they are the exact same thing just without the Flowmaster name on them

 

Never heard/knew of that.

Thanks for the heads-up.

 

yep. found out when i got my muffler put on. i asked for a flowmaster, then when i got home and was looking at it, i found that it was a knock off. only thing that made me mad was that i paid for a flowmaster

 

I WOULD HAVE WHOOPED SOME ***!!!

 

Well the way I got the muffler was when I was changing the cats. He told me that he got a few mufflers shipped to him by mistake. When he tried to return them he was told to keep them. They still sent him his flowmaster order. He offered it to me for 70 bucks. For that price I figured Ill try it. It sounds just like the flowmaster. In a few weeks I am going back to a 3 inch tip installed.

 

i went back to the shop and threw the muffler at them and told them to show me where it said flowmaster.

 

my bud has a muffler called the patriot and its IDENTICAL to a flowmaster on his 99 chevy z71. sounds the same too

 

The first messageboard commandment: Thou shalt not multipost.

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh....php?p=2936712

 

awesome, they have anything to say?

 

ya. the guy was like "uh.....i dont know why that would have been put on there." and the owner was there, he gave me some crap story about how he was in a motorcycle accident and had some other guy running the shop at the time i got my muffler. he had his guys put a real flowmaster on at no extra charge. he even mounted it so that the Flowmaster logo was on the bottom so i could see it

 

ROFL buckles! show them what a real texan can do!

 

You actually pulled the muffler off yourself, after they installed it, and went back to them?