A few months ago I decided to make the truck roar a bit so I put on a new muffler. I wanted to do the cheapest route possible at the time. My brother inlaw had a guy who does mufflers and they did all the labor for free. So I went to summit and picked up a magnaflow performance muffler and replaced my stock muffler. Got a nice crome slant cut tip welded on and she looks real good. The problem is I was hoping it was going to be louder. It sounds good when you fire it up and its a very clean deep rumble but i was hoping for a bit more. I maybe should have gone with the flowmaster but I went with the magnaflow mainly because I heard they are better on the highway as far as taming down when your doing highways speeds. Which i made a long trip to Texas recently and it was nice and mellow, which was good. But when Im around town I wanna have a little more noise what else can I do (cost effective) to make it a bit louder?

 

Also my truck is an 05' Fx4 5.4

 

Which magnaflow did you install?

 

I believe it was this one. I dont have the paperwork with me its at my home in Illinois. But I got it from summit while going through their parts catalog with an associate. This one I believe is the one I got. Not 100% and the outlet and inset may have been different to fit the ford.

MagnaFlow 14376

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MPE-14376/

 

STRAIGHT PIPES. i'll admit there are some really good sounding mufflers out there, but there is no alternitive at all for a good straight pipe setup. ive had every kinda setup from stock, to flowmasters (current cuz of $$ to redo aint there), and straight pipes. i got friends with dynomax, magnaflow, and straight pipes also. theres really nothin better sound wise (deep deep rumblin like a truck should sound like) as straight pipes. if ya couldnt tell im pretty biased towards rippin out mufflers but theres a reason for the madness

 

^ There is also a means for making suggestions subject to what the OP is asking... For instance > He said "a bit louder". This does NOT entitle running straight pipes!

 

OP - You can change the muffler to a round body magnaflow for a little louder setup, and still keep that magnaflow rumble tone.

 

hi-flow cats would make it a little bit louder

 

^ Cost effective... Damn, that would sound good with that 11" oval though!

 

I know but you got to pay to play

 

^ indeed

 

How much for hi-flow cats?

 

at Performance peddler there just under $50 with code "clubgp"

 

Hell, I didn't know they were that cheap now! I vote hi flows!

 

You should have come on here before you had that installed. The bigger the muffler is, the quieter, and you really got a big one. You can either swap out the oval for a 4" round (aka Magnapack) or swap in some hi-flows, or both.