to staight pipe or not?

[4x4.Ranger]

i have a 4.0L and it is stock exhaust and i have been wondering if straight pipes would be to loud?

 

[Sunk]

Look around a little more on here, and even on YouTube. A number of members have posted clips of what their exhaust setups sound like. "Too loud" is kind of subjective, so it may be hard to get an accurate answer.

 

[BlackBII]

It's somewhat illegal, somewhat loud, you will lose of your low end torque somewhat(if the pipe is too large)

Why you looking to straight pipe it?

 

[turbo cat]

put on a hooker max flow

 

[4x4.Ranger]

i was just going to put a new muffler on it but just cutting it off entirerly would be easyier i know it anit a big motor but i want to hear the engine somewhat and not the engine fan all the time lol i know a guy that had a 07 ranger with the 4L and he straight piped it and it didnt sound half bad

 

[Rammunition360]

straight pipe with thrush glass packs or single chaimber flowmaster

 

[FLDangerRanger89]

I would go with 2.5" tubing and a single in single out flowmaster. I had a magnaflow on it but it sounded to smooth and importish.

 

[rangerrager]

are you planning on running the cats or no?

 

[Sevensecondsuv]

Straight pipes with no muffler is going to be annoyingly loud and ratty sounding.

Put a flowmaster in there or if you want cheap, get a thrush welded muffler. They are the same thing as a flowmaster at about 30 bucks.

 

[doorgunner]

I ran straight exhaust (no cats/no muffler) to my rear bumper. The 2.9 ran like a scalded dog & sounded like a dirt track car, but I lost 5 m.p.g. & couldn't stand near the back of the truck because it started running so rich!
So I put the cats back on & ran dual exhausts from the cats tail to the back bumpers--got my 5mpg back plus some & it sounds almost like a v-8! SO, I cut 20" off each tail-pipe and installed ------ -------- mufflers & now it sounds just like an ancient 289 v-8!!!

 

[97DangerRanger]

Ive got a 97 2.3 with a glasspack inplace of the muffler and it sont sound bad except the guy that put it on for me has the tailpipe too close to the frame.