Bout to get.....

[Loudest-99Ranger]

hey everybody. i have a 99 ford ranger xlt step-side 3.0L v6 spd. was talking to a local exhaust shop in town and was asking up bout doing dual hood-stacks on my ford ranger he said it could be done. for little over 100 bucks. pretty good deal i believe. what is the max pipe size i could go to keep back-pressure decent? i was thinking either 2.25 or 2 1/2 pipe. could i go any bigger? would 3 inch pipe work? or would that make my engine run to shit? also, i don't have cats on at the moment and my engine is running perfect. have sensors and everything as well on.

Thanks,
James

 

[bcost882]

are you going for each cylinder havin a pipe or a 3-1 or 3-2-1 cause with the cat and muffler and all prolly 1 3/4 pipe cause 2.25 is good for a single exhaust with cats. dunno wut other people think. plus you prolly don't care about o2 sensors huh cause takin them out will make it run like crap

 

[Original_Ranger84]

Well if your doing hood stacks then go as big as you want cause the only thing that would help would be like 1.5" pipe and it would sound bad... not like the hood stacks are going to sound that decent anyways... Just my opinion man..

 

[Loudest-99Ranger]

wells im taking my truck to the shop here in a couple of days. im basically just going to do some tight bends from the manifold. cause its has 2 in 1 out stock at momemt. just going to unbolt it and throw the stacks in. then will throw the heat sensor and if i can get little bit longer wires ill put the o2 sensor back in. ohh and btw. im running with no cats at moment and with the sensor still and im getting 20MPG in city and bout 25-27MPG highway. so the w/o um im getting better mpg. plus its a 11 year old truck. still reasonable new

 

[ozziemo27]

No offense man but hood stacks on a 3.0 ranger? Its not going to sound good and its going to be pretty silly. If its a mud truck? Sure, who cares.

 

[Loudest-99Ranger]

well im going to mod it to be a mud truck. getting 25's and lift kit at moment.

 

[babytruck]

what are 25's? take some pictures of it when its done i want to see this!!

 

[Dweano]

I'm hoping you mean 35's haha

 

[Loudest-99Ranger]

35's yes lol sorries on that part.