Mufflers

[81 rangie]

After the center muffler my car has a 2.5 inch pipe which leads into a hotdog. ATM it is't very loud, and is lacking a decent note, should I cut out the hotdog and replace that with pipe, or cut out the center muffler and rplace that with pipe, or will that be too loud, and sound crap

[Loanrangie]

I have pretty much the same on my 3.5 and it sounds sweet - center muffler 2.5" pipe and hotdog, maybe your muffler is stuffed. A new turbo muffler should allow it to breathe and give a good note.

[Mudrat]

In my 85 rangie, with a 4.6L engine I have extractors, 2 3/4" exhaust all the way through and a turbo muffler with no hotdog. It gives a nice note and not to load at highway cruising revs etc. My 2c anyway

Cheers

[up2nogood]

Leave the hot dog in. It's designed to prevent resonation in the car, not restrict noise.

You'll find the muffler is the restriction. Have a zorst shop cut it out and fit a sports on.

Just watch out for how loud it is to judge what sort of sport muffler to install. If the engine's a bit old, a more straight through one is OK. If it has a new cam, etc, it will make a racket!

[Aquarangie]

For a 3.5, I find that the 2 1/4 is more than enough. I like the note but not too much raquet

I had a 2 1/2 on my 3.9 EFI and it was fine not too noisy. I also had an erxtra muffler added as well and you could only hear it when giving it a hiding off-road or up hills.

Trav