This is really cool and I'm pretty sure I'm going to order it. What do you guys think?
http://www.streetbeatcustoms.com/Str..._70607/575675/

Obviously I'll put a duel exhaust on which I in the works of doing anyway. Now that football is over I have a ton of free time to work on my truck. Today I finally replaced my TPS and cleaned my TB. That was the best thing I could have done. Stalling was pissing me off. Anyway I'm up for suggestions, but I'm liking that Through exhaust roll pan.

 

Yea a friend of mine has an r/t with holes in the rollpan. Though his has the horizontal type tips. Pretty cool.

 

Hey man, i have a street scene standard roll pan on my dakota that I installed myself after my rear bumper was damaged. I originally painted mine to match the body, but they damage easily being fiberglass and a bit flexible. Here's a couple things to keep in mind- if you have a trailer hitch on your truck now, you'll have to switch to a hidden hitch for roll pans. I did this and it was no biggie. I just cut a hole in it and remove my licence plate when towing.

The second thing is that the roll pan leaves a small gap between the body of your tuck bed and the roll pan, so when you have your tailgate down, rocks, bark, ect that your hauling will fall into this small gap and get caught. I finally took the time to get some good bolts to tighten the roll pan into the truck body, then I applied bondo and eliminated the gap. Tired of rock chips and scratches, I decided to apply bedliner to the back wall and top of the roll pan, and then rather than repaint I rolled it on the whole roll pan for added durablity.

My suggestion when installing the roll pan would be to take the extra step of getting some good bolts for the top side of the roll pan, and seal the gap with bondo then paint or bendline to match your truck. It took some extra time but absolutely worth it if you ever haul around landscaping materials, rock, bark, ect.

There was a large gap that formed over time between the top edge of the roll pan and the rear of the truck body:

 

Thanks man, this is really good info and I'll be sure to do that upon install. Will the exhaust pipes change the paint color on the through design?

 

looks good, but get a steel one vs fiberglass.

 

I still have that same roll pan for sale. I bought the urethane roll pan back when I had a 2wd dakota. I sold the truck before I put the roll pan on and never really thought it looked as good on a 4x4, but just IMO.

PM me if you're interested in buying it. It's brand new, never used.

I prefer the urethane vs steel. Steel can rust and dent much easier. Urethane has some give to it. Only nice part with steel is weld-ability.

 

I don't think the exhaust would change the paint color as long as you gave it several coats and a few clear coats

 

Won't change it at all if its urethane. It doesn't heat up like steel does. Even if it is steel I don't think it will mess with it much. The exhaust at the end isn't nearly as hot as it is near the manifolds and even by the cat. It's still hot, but I don't think it's hot enough to damage a couple coats of paint.