Stacks

[RangerNielsen]

I am thinking about flatbedding my 88 manual, and if I were to do that, I would put a headache rack and true dual stacks on it too. I would also end up glasspacking it. would this be a bad idea or be obnoxious? How much power would i lose?

 

[982WDRanger]

A buddy of mine has an 86, flat bed and just one stack. Running a 93 4.0L with a single cat, glasspack and a one piece bent stack. It has a nice idle and really cracks when you get on her.

 

[adsm08]

The amount of power lost will be related to how big your pipes are. If you do a pair of cats and a pair of 1.5 or 2" pipes that actually carry the exhaust, you will probably be ok. Even if you sleeve the actual exhaust pipes in something larger for looks, I wouldn't go past 2" piping and keep cats in there. They will help with keeping the flow dynamics of the exhaust.

 

[RustedRanger]

I'd go single for sound quality and flow. I used a 31" long glasspack with a turn down,it sounds decent and it's not "blatty" like a rice burner. It's a hair loud for my tastes after having it on there over two years but it's not annoying.

 

[dave2575]

I'm pretty sure the reason you'd want to put stacks on a Ranger is not just for the cool look, I'm also pretty sure you'd want to hear them to. IMHO Stacks need to look awesome as well as sound awesome! A nice big chrome pipe or a big polished aluminum pipe with a nice pair of matching slapper's on top.

(your basic ideal scenario) At idle you can here your slappers lightly taping as they open and close, BUT then when your at full open throttle(ALWAYS!) you can hear the sound of HELL it self screaming out of your pipes! AWESOME!
loud pipes save lives!

 

[Frank The Tank]

It will sound like a big pile of poo and managa to look ridiculous.

Why don't you cut the tops off your headache rack and just pipe the exhaust into the bottom of that. It would sound.... Interesting to say the least. Also it would look less dumb.

 

[bobbywalter]

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

You can run a smaller pipe inside of the bigger chrome pipe for looks if you want. Get large washers for shims.

That is how I had 3" chrome chrome pipe on my tractor that only had an 1.75"ish pipe stock. Got a piece of pipe that fit in the manifold, got some washers that fit outside the inner and inside the outer, welded one at the bottom of where I wanted the chrome stack and one at the top of the internal pipe. Stuck the pipe over and welded it to the bottom washer.

May not be a big thing for a pickup but on a tractor with the manifold right there it really helps to keep the pipes from turning colors. The first one I did I didn't go up very high with the inside pipe, two laps with a disk and I had a purple/blue exhaust pipe.

That said aside from the Dodge Lil' Red Express type trucks I think stacks on a pickup look very stupid. Gas, diesel or nuclear powered I don't care.

 

[RangerNielsen]

I was going to do twin de-catted stacks, and with glasspacks encased in a 4" stack and have the actual exhaust be the same as stock, with the pipe wapping under the frame and coming up from the outside of the frame, and turn out, like a classic semi. I want to stop at a 6" lift with 35's (or however much more lift i need to clear 35"s) and a snorkel. so the stacks wouldn't just be for looks, but functionality if I go deep and bury the stock pipe. i may have to relocate the tank or build me a custom one if I do that though. and stacks are super sexy on pickups, especially flatbeds.

 

[4.0B2]

Thou shall never put stacks on a gasser....

yeah, I'm pretty sure that's in there somewhere. lol.

seriously tho, If you stack it, use a small enough pipe for the power loss to be minimal. if you must, put the smaller pipe inside a big one for the "look" you're going for.

 

[RangerNielsen]

yeah, i was going to sleeve the stack. what size pipe should i run for the actual traveling pipe?

 

[4.0B2]

true duals?
i would say 1.5".. that's my input.

When adsm08 says 1.5-2"... I'd say go with that.

 

[RangerNielsen]

Yeah. Each stack comes out of each bank. And then wrap it under the frame and come up on the outside of the frame rails and glass pack it and then sleeve it in like a 4" stack, and maybe do the 2"- a 4" "tip" at the top where it bends out like a semis.

 

[RangerNielsen]

Or should I run the de-fatted glass packed stock diameter pipes?

 

[RangerNielsen]

Yeah. Each bank for each exhaust. But I was going to wrap it under the frame and come up on the outside of the frame rail and glass pack it the Sleeve it with a 4" stack, then I may have to do a 2"-4" "tip" and run a cone thing so you can't tell it's got a 2" exhaust. Or I may just do the stock size de-catted all the way up with a glass pack in the sleeve as well.