yo yo yo

 

Hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas!

Spent a bunch of time working on the truck over the past 6 months. Finally had her out this weekend doing a shakedown since I overhauled the suspension and rebuilt the brake calipers myself up front. So far so good.

Still hard to believe how quiet it is around here. This place was always so busy.

 

truck looks great John

 

Truck is really sharp Kid. How many miles on it and how many on the Mustang?

 

Thank you Jerame and Jim!

Jim, I'm a little over 140,000 mi on the truck. And I think I'm at almost 86,000 on the Mustang.

The new 2024 I think I'm a little over 6,000 at this point. Working from home saves a lot of miles haha.

I definitely appreciate the older stuff now from a nostalgia factor when I drive. The new trucks are just so comfortable powerful and amazing. But the older stuff has this charm that reminds me of when I was a teenager.

 

Yep I have 7200 on my 2020. I’m amazed at the power every time I drive it. We use it to go out of town, drive the 2000 Expedition around town and short trips to Ft Worth and Cleburne, it now has just over 25,000 on it.

 

I wish I could get by with a half ton, one day I’ll have another as a daily so this ol’ tonner can go back to straight trailer dragging

 

Well couldn't resist the urge to put an exhaust on my 2024. Figured out Borla direct was clearancing the 21-23 3.3 l S-Type and ATAK kits. They were marked down to $575 or so and those are normally all in with tax and shipping about $1,700

I dug through the bill of materials and put together where I saw the overlap and realized even though Borla tunes the mufflers to the trucks, they didn't do that on the 3.3.

Since they don't make that engine anymore and it was an incredibly low volume seller for aftermarket exhaust kits, Borla clearly was just trying to fire sell them. Well as I went through the bill of materials I realized those are all V8 parts. The muffler is the current regular cab short bed 5.0 S type muffler. It was also used on the 2015-2020 F-150 S-Type kits. The resonator is the same part number as the actual 5.0 crew cab/extended cab wheelbase 21 plus S type resonator. So Borla just lumped those parts together and created that for the 3.3 kit.

My theory is everything checks out from the muffler back as the identical part number to 2015-2020 S type... Just repackaged for the 3.3 with the updated intermediate pipe. Only difference is there's a kick down on the intermediate pipe which is why they used this newer part number for the actual S-Type 5.0 kit. Otherwise, it's the exact same as the 2015-2020 components.

Love the sound and it's quieter than the new 21 plus 5.0 S type that uses this tiny little coffee can muffler.

$619 for the entire kit shipped to me. Had it on about a month and just absolutely love it. Zero drone, not obnoxious. Absolutely perfect. Not sure why they made the newer 21 plus kits for the 5.0 so loud.






2021+ 3.3 crew cab/extended cab Borla S-Type bill of materials

2021+ 5.0 crew cab/extended cab Borla S-Type bill of materials

2015-2020 Borla S-Type Bill of materials.

Same muffler used in the 2015-2020 and the regular cab short bed 5.0 21+

3.3 kit I figured out for a song.

 

You are a sharp cookie! 😂well done!

you need to come to Texas and install one on my 2020.

 

Thanks Jim! Ford performance was liquidating their kits if you're interested. I think they had ones for the 2015 through 2020 generation for a really ridiculous price.

The "Sport" would be the close one to the borla stype

 

Jim does your Daughter (or was it Duaghter in law) still have their 7.3L Excurison? What about the wife's low mileage Expy? Just wondering....

 

No, they got rid of it a while back after kids were grown. We use the Expedition for our daily driver now, has 25,480 miles on it. Runs great.

 

Good to hear your Expy is still serving you well. I'm sure it look incredible given the low mileage!

 

i looked at a 7.3 excursion the other day

 

Mais how ya'll are?? Pawpaw from the swamps checking in!!