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Old Jan 2, 2013 | 05:48 PM
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Interchangeable Mufflers?

I recently had a Borla Pro XS welded in and dont get me wrong I love the sound its just a little to mellow for me. I used to have a Bullet on and I loved the aggressiveness but it was just too much drone on the highway with the high flow cat. I have a welder and I was thinking what if I welded flanges on each side of the Borla and Bullet then on each side of the mid pipe so that I can just unbolt and swap mufflers for different situations like city and highway driving. Has anyone done this? I know some cars have it but I wanna know if there's an f150 out there that has.
 
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Old Jan 2, 2013 | 07:16 PM
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This is a new one for me...
 
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Old Jan 2, 2013 | 07:20 PM
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Darren and I have talked about it in the past. Not really a big deal and would be nice for sure
 
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Old Jan 2, 2013 | 08:15 PM
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You guys have any advice or is it as simple as it sounds?
 
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Old Jan 3, 2013 | 08:34 AM
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You guys have any advice or is it as simple as it sounds?
It is simple, its just costly and laborsome. Stainless flanges will run a few bucks and switching in and out will just be a pain.
 
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Old Jan 3, 2013 | 11:11 AM
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Oh alright, its actually kind of funny that I bought my bullet because of your videos Darren and the borla because of avfrogs videos haha
 
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Old Jan 3, 2013 | 09:11 PM
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^ But I don't have any cats, so yours is much quieter. Haha

I don't know how you would make an easy interchangeable system. It would be easier to find a happy medium between the two probably.
 
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Old Jan 3, 2013 | 09:29 PM
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^ But I don't have any cats, so yours is much quieter. Haha

I don't know how you would make an easy interchangeable system. It would be easier to find a happy medium between the two probably.
I have always wanted to recommend using Bose QC sound quieting headphones for drone issues
 
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Old Jan 3, 2013 | 10:14 PM
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Haha that's true. I drive highway like maybe like every other week. So I was just thinking if it could have those flanges I just zap 6 bolts, 3 on each side with the impact and swap.
 
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Old Jan 4, 2013 | 07:38 PM
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^ that will get old, quick.
 
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Old Jan 5, 2013 | 12:55 AM
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I'd just do a cutout in front of the Borla.
 
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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 10:49 PM
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^what he said. I ran an electric cutout on my last truck, it was loud but sounded like poop. It was nice to be able to drastically change the sound of the truck with the flip of a switch.

My buddy ran one of these mufflers in the past:

http://www.summitracing.com/search/p...eries-mufflers

It was deep but quiet through the muffler and really loud with the cap off.
 
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 08:44 PM
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I'd just do a cutout in front of the Borla.
Fail
 
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Old Jan 10, 2013 | 07:06 PM
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Fail
OK bro.
 
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