3.0L True Duals?

[Howard98]

I have a 98 ranger with a 3.0 in it. Right now it has a glass pack where the stock muffler was and it's ran out the side. I don't really like the way it sounds so I think i'm gonna take it to a shop and have true duals put on it. I was wondering if the 3.0's sound better with or without mufflers when you do true duals. I'm looking for a loud raspy tone, but not too much like a tuner. Although I know that any v6 is going to sound like a tuner in the high R's.

 

[babytruck]

just stick with a smaller diameter pipe, you might reduce back pressure too much anyway.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

I always liked this one, its a 98 with the original cats and a y pipe to dual outlets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mvFsBvyWJ4&feature=related

 

[Howard98]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0duIDoIB8-Q

This is a TRS member's 93 3L Ranger with the setup your wanting. True duals on a 3L Ranger is just like two 3 cylinder Metro's fighting with bee's in a can. If you want a better setup run a SI/DO original 40 Flowmaster and it will sound better then true duals. The best setup I have ever heard is 2.5 pipe with a original 40 SI/SO. Maybe due to it being my setup, only reason is the 3L has been completely redone. Mine is sounds alot like this here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKKzwk7-ZU4

It's your truck you install what you want. Most I have seen is they run to small of a pipe or not enough pipe.

well I have to agree with you that the bottom video is the best sounding 3.0 I've heard. Is that with or without the cats? and what size pipe?

 

[mark m]

i replaced the stock muffler on my 93 3.0 with a summit racing muffler (around $40) and i am really impressed with the way it sounds.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

A true dual system will sound better than anything with a y-pipe with comparable mufflers. Y-pipes just have this droney bellar to them that just doesn't appeal to me. And living in a near arctic climate of late, the ones with fake duals are obvious to point with smoke only coming out of one pipe when it is cold.

I have true duals (with no crossover) on my F-150, and it sounds absolutely nothing like two four cylinders.

IMO Wicked's truck sounds the way it does because of small pipe and/or the mufflers, not really because it has true duals.

My 2.8 sounded similar with a single 2" pipe and only a glasspack, it didn't have the neat crackling though.

 

[Howard98]

A true dual system will sound better than anything with a y-pipe with comparable mufflers. Y-pipes just have this droney bellar to them that just doesn't appeal to me. And living in a near arctic climate of late, the ones with fake duals are obvious to point with smoke only coming out of one pipe when it is cold.

I have true duals (with no crossover) on my F-150, and it sounds absolutely nothing like two four cylinders.

IMO Wicked's truck sounds the way it does because of small pipe and/or the mufflers, not really because it has true duals.

My 2.8 sounded similar with a single 2" pipe and only a glasspack, it didn't have the neat crackling though.

ok, so how do you think my 3.0 would sound with true duals and 2.5" pipe? and no cats

 

[Z3CHYD]

here's my 97 with a 2.3. It's straight piped with the stock cat, then y-piped into duals right out the back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1MWkeyCe94

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

ok, so how do you think my 3.0 would sound with true duals and 2.5" pipe? and no cats

What mufflers?

Glasspacks would sound like Wicked's truck (the first link that mtnrngr posted), that is what he has.

Something more substantial for a muffler would sound better. The best my 2.8 sounded IMO was with a turbo muffler so I would go with something along those lines.

For what little it is worth I have glasspacks with the factory cats on my F-150 and love the sound. It had 2.25" pipe coming out of the cats so I ran it all the way back... I think 2.5 would be a little big for a 3.0.

 

[Howard98]

Should I get an X or H pipe also so that it doesn't sound like 2 3 cylinders?

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Should I get an X or H pipe also so that it doesn't sound like 2 3 cylinders?

I believe that Wicked was running an H pipe on his setup. but either will work, and both will give you different sounds. you could even just go with a dual in dual out muffler with 2.25" piping and that would mix the two similar to an h or x pipe.

 

[Howard98]

ok, I think im gonna go with an H pipe then. What mufflers should I use so that it will be pretty loud but standable to drive in town?