Just a few questions

[Forces Delta]

First, I want to change the side mirrors on my 93 ford ranger but can't find what I want. What year explorer mirrors or rangers are interchangeable with this year.

Second, I want to make the exhaust a little louder. All my buddies just tell me to remove the "cat" and I'll be fine. Problem is I don't want to deal with paying any sort of fines or anything for not having one. Any suggestions?

Lastly, got any tips on getting better with a 5 speed? I'm leaps and bounds better than day one but still have little hick ups. Mainly just going from a dead stop. I'll either A) start moving then just accelerate real fast or B) it'll buck very little but I'll be going at the right speed.

I'm not a car guy but my grandpa gave me this truck before he passed and it means alot to me. I just want to be better at driving it so I can be more comfortable driving it.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

For exhaust I recomend just getting a catback. Single outlet is fine. That way if something happens to it or you want to change it back it is easy to do... not so much with a custom made exhaust.

And I would also go stainless or you will be changing it every two years.

Practice makes perfect, after awhile DD'ing a 5 speed I could shift it so nice you would think it was an automatic... but Rome wasn't built in a day.

 

[adsm08]

^What he said^

Leave the cat there, get new friends and a different muffler.

As for the driving a stick, it just takes practice. You said yourself that you are leaps and bounds better than on day one. Keep doing it and you will keep getting better.

I recently took a friend of mine out to teach him to drive stick. We are both 30, and have both been driving since we were 15. My dad started me on a stick, his family only ever owned autos. I drove to the lot we were practicing in, and then we went over the basics and switched seats. He did pretty good for a first timer but was frustrated over the same two things you mentioned. I had to keep telling him to calm down and not worry about an unrefined technique because he was on day one and I have literally been doing this for half our lifetime.

Keep at it and by the time you have been driving stick for 15 years you will be able to make a smooth launch on a hill in your sleep.

 

[Forces Delta]

Thanks everyones

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[Forces Delta]

What exactly is a catback?

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[alwaysFlOoReD]

From the catalytic converter back to the rear bumper.

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[85_Ranger4x4]

What exactly is a catback?

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An example:

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/gib-619700/overview/year/1993/make/ford/model/ranger

 

[Shran]

Leave the cat, don't gut it, don't touch it. As everyone else said, it's not going to make your truck sound cool, removing it just creates smog.

I don't know what engine you have but the Flowmaster I put on my Explorer sounds fantastic. It's not loud but it's got a low rumble and doesn't sound stupid like most V6's do. I wish I could tell you what exactly it is but I cut it out of a junker pickup - single in, single out with 2.5" pipe, Flowmaster brand is all I know.

More practice is the only way you're gonna get used to the 5 speed. Pretty soon it'll be second nature.

 

[Forces Delta]

I have the 4.0 v6

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[Captain Ledd]

Pretty much covered.

Though with the stainless exhaust, it'll only really rust our where they salt the roads and/or you get a really thin wall system.

If they don't salt much, or if you get your piping in a decent wall thickness you'll be fine.

 

[BLOODBANE]

On my 94 Explorer I went with the Gibson cat back exhaust with a high flow cat. Its not necessarily louder, but it works well with the 4.0 (gutting the cat will make less back pressure. The 4.0 isnt a torgue motor anyways and it will hurt more than help).

 

[chewy012]

I just took a hack saw to my muffler.... Kept the cat.

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[lil_Blue_Ford]

Yep, time for new friends, lol.

New cat-back exhaust will help, but it will never sound like a V-8. My choptop has a 4.0. I did headers and had a local custom exhaust shop do a full exhaust (my cat was shot). They did a stainless high flow cat, 10 series Flowmaster and stainless 2-1/2" all the way back. At idle it isn't very loud but it sounds good when you get on it. Back when I had a 2.9 in it, it had a flowmaster 40 series that sounded pretty good too.

As far as a manual goes, practice makes perfect. When I was learning, I found a circle in the back of a local park where I could practice starting out and shifting to second. Had a little up and down, so I could practice starting on a slope. Spent hours going around there. Still took a lot of driving before I was fully comfortable. My dad always said that when you're fully comfortable, you won't even think about shifting. I thought he was crazy, but after a year of driving one every day, he was right. That was my first truck, an up until December of last year, all of my primary trucks were manual.


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