I am thinking on straight piping y Durango... It's a 01 4:7... How do they sound? And I want to go leather... How hard is it to add in the seat harness

 

straight pipes will sound pretty bad (very loud, but not a good sound).

what do you mean by add in the seat harness? leather seats from and durango with a matching interior should be bolt in and go

 

+1 on straight pipes sounding bad shrp. If you really want to (and the law allows you to), the best sound I've found (which is what I had on my Durango, also had the best performance gain) is remove the CAT, put a straight pipe in where the CAT was the put a Flowmaster 40 muffler going to a single out.

If you want more sound then you can do a dual exit setup, but for performance sake the single is your best bet. The straight pipe has a horrible drone to it whether your at idle, doing 30 in the city, or doing 75 on the freeway.

Like shrp said what exactly do you mean harness? Are you referring to adding on the optional seat heater found in the R/T model? If you don't want that just either get seats out of a junker or order leather covers from Katzkin.

 

I have an sxt and there's no harmed for the power seats

 

Yes the seats I'm looking at are heated also with the straight pipe I don't care about drone as long as its actually sounds good lol. Never straight pipe an i6 jeep lol

 

it will NOT sound good, it will just be loud and obnoxious

 

+3 Straight pipe is nasty!

 

What size is the exhaust on my Durango? And what offset is the muffler? It's huge (26" case) lol but what's the pipes offset? And has anyone gutted one of these mufflers before? And if I do a straight pipe what's the easiest way to get the offset?

 

Okay you obviously want to do a straight pipe. If you don't want to take others experience into consideration, then why ask the question? The 4.7L motors have a 2.5" pipe O/D I believe.

 

Exactly.


The exhaust is 2.5" all the way down. I'm not sure how much the pipes are offset, but the muffler setup you need to get is a Middle-In -> Offset-Out. You don't want to do a straight pipe, trust me. If you so desire that is really what you want to do just go to a muffler shop and have them bend you an "S Pipe".

Also, make sure before you make the decision of welding a pipe in there, check with your local laws because believe it or not there are still noise ordinances out there that prevent people from doing this kind of thing...

Also, look at the downside to running a straight pipe, you will have very minimal if any back pressure to your exhaust and this wreaks havoc on fuel injected engines.


Take it from all of us, we've all seen it and had to shake our heads at the sight and sound of straight pipes, not to mention save us some sleep, just put a Flowmaster on it.