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exaust advice. does this sond like a good setup?*UPDATE*

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<font color="red"> i went and talked to the muffler guy today. he said duel 3" routed around 2 t-cases as high as possible all the way to the bumper would be $400ish, depending on what mufflers i wanted. he was telling me the borla was the was to go as it had almost NO backpresure and it was pretty quite. any thoughts now? last moment advice? thanks again





</font> 6.5L non-turbo. im thinking duel 4" with glass packs. this would offer a very low amount of back pressure and still not be real loud right? but what do i do about manifolds? i have never seen headers for our trucks but i would guess the manifolds are not as free flowing as headers right? in a perfect world my truck would have about 1 or 2 pounds of backpressure and run just loud enough i could hear/feel that she was running. but i will sacrifice silence in the name of power. ok hope that made sense. thanks in advace
 
Re: exaust advice. does this sond like a good setup?

Dual 4" is probably an overkill, it seams that dual 3"s are the going size. www.kennedydiesel.com sells header kits for the 6.2/6.5. With dual 3s and glasspacks your exhaust setup will be optimal.
 
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Don't glasspacks get plugged up with soot on a diesel? I'd run Flow masters before I'd run glasspacks...

Rene
 
Re: exaust advice. does this sond like a good setup?

cool man!! my thinking was that if 3" is good 4" is better right? the pipe is not THAT much more, the labor is the expensive part. i might have trouble finding glasspacks with 4" input/output though.

anyone have any experiance with glass packs on a diesel? how loud are they?
 
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Anything bigger than 2.5 in would be worthless due to the outlet of the manifolds being either 2.25 or 2.5 (cant remember which one exactly). If I was willing to spend money on custom exhaust, I would Y the pipes into a single 3" or dual 2.5" with a balance pipe. Anything bigger would be a waste of money.
 
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IIRC the outlet size is 2.25" stock, but that can be opened up to 2.5".

Rene
 
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Although that would be a restriction, exhaust running 15 feet will flow better through a 3" than a 2.5" after exiting the manifold.
 
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If anything gets plugged it would be the baffles, then it would simply be a straight through pipe.
 
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I dont believe that is true, but I cant say I am an expert at the characteristics of exhaust flow in pipes so I really cant make a good argument. But I know for sure the gain would be very minimal and probably only felt at high rpms which to me wouldnt make it worth the extra cost.
 
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you are talking about the manifold outlet right? what is the size of the actually exuast port? if i ran headers then i would not need to worry about the stock manifolds outlet.
 
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I agree it is probably a very slight improvment.
 
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Dont waste your money on headers, please, for your own sake!
 
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I'm with rene and I vote against the glasspacks. I've heard that they don't even sound great with a diesel. I say go with Gibson exhaust 3" single pipe. /forums/images/graemlins/thumb.gif
 
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Oh yeah, and definitly skip the headers as well. I read an article about it today, said something about gains being almost non-existent. They recomend if your using anything use the 6.5L's or late model 6.2's as they flow slightly better than the early model ones. But even those won't be very noticable.
 
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ok, so the new and improved plan is single 3" with a flowmaster and open the manifold to 2.5" does anybody have info on how to open them up? do i just dremel the hole bigger or what?
 
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I'm with rene and I vote against the glasspacks. I've heard that they don't even sound great with a diesel. I say go with Gibson exhaust 3" single pipe. /forums/images/graemlins/thumb.gif

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Glass packs that are made for gas engines are no good with diesel.
Where I came from they made glasspacks for diesels, basically the hiles inside are bigger so they don't clog that easy, and they sound awesome.
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/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif lol where did you come from? /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif
 
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/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif lol where did you come from? /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif

[/ QUOTE ] /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif A planet far far away!! /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif /forums/images/graemlins/rotfl.gif
 
Re: exaust advice. does this sond like a good setup?

I have run 2.5" 40 series flowmasters on my stock dual pipes for several years now. I think the baffles and chambers collect particulate matter and the mufflers start to lose some of the flow and performace that they had when they where new. Although the setup i have now is alot better than the stock mufflers that were on the truck when i bought it even if they have lost some of their flow.
 
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Well I forgot I removed that from my profile a while ago.
I grew up in the middle east and some in europe.
For you guys yes a planet far far away.
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