straight pipes?
It'll be way louder, should probably have the same performance though no muffler tends to drop mpg a little. Removing the rear cats will gain you 0.2mpg most likely, it did for me. And I got a little low end increase.
No muffler rips a butt in your mileage.
anyone have a good sounds clip of what a 3v 5.4 sounds like with true dual straights with an x-pipe and no rear cats? i had true dual straights with all 4 cats and no x or h-pipe and it sounded pretty good but the pressures were off horribly so i went to 14" magnaflow di/do tru-x and cut off my back cats but im thinkin i may want some sound for the summer.
won't removing your stock muffler lead to a slight Lean Condition? i know Intake kits do , but am bite scared since thes 3v can go very lean with any slight air restriction increase... or the 04 are diffrent than the 07?
Mufflers have nothing to do with running lean or rich, headers and cats are the only parts that play that kind of role. 2004 and 2005 truck came from the factory running near lean, 2006+ are better tuned and dont run lean, though you must have a custom tune for any 3v engine for an intake. A muffler change/delete will not harm anything except your ears.




