how loud is something like this though? with videos its hard to get an honest idea of the exact of the sound because of the recording. if i did want to get a muffler like this what would be your suggestion as to where to look?

 

What you hear is what you get. It's not very loud at all until you go WOT and then it will sound off pretty good. I had this one made at a local sheet metal company. If you have one locally, tell them to make it 6" OD X 26" long out of 16 ga steel plate and the end plates need to be at least 14 ga steel. It should end up looking like a sealed up round cylinder.

Cut a 2.5" hole in each end in the offset/offset position and allow about 2" of pipe to extend down inside the muffler. Spread the pipe nipples to 2.5" ID so it will slip over the exhaust pipe and tail pipe. Any muffler shop should be able to do this for you.

Cut the stock muffler out and clamp this one back in it's place and you're ready to go.

 

Back to my question earlier what size is the stock piping? Do I have a center or offset inlet and center or offset outlet? If offset is it offset to the right or left? Thanks

 

As I said earlier...2.5" on the pipe size and every one of those questions about your stock muffler can be answered by simply looking under your truck.

 

I would look under the truck but since its been pouring down rain all day and I dont have a muffler on there at all and am missing a large section of pipe it makes it a little harder

 

2.5 but I still don't no where the muffler inlet and outlet are.

 

Totally bummed that I missed this pole.

Either way; my Dynomax 17219 made a huge difference, for me, for the better.

I have a V6. You CAN get get it to sound better - deep/tonal/more-menacing but you will never have it sound like a V8. I promise you this.
I do a lot of work on my truck at my uncle's garage - his 100% stock 2000 V8 Dakota 4x4 club-cab is in the other bay.

I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm just trying to save you some cash and your sanity.

 

Stock pipes for a 1997-1999 Dakota are 2.5"

That's all I got. Sorry I can't help with other year Dakotas.

 

IIRC the muffler is offset front and center rear. You may have someone who has a stock muffler check it out because all my stock mufflers are long gone.

 

Toyota's just sound terrible in general...

It doesn't really matter where the inlet and outlet are. The stock is center/center but if you get one that has a right inlet/left outlet it can still work fine. My Hooker is that way it was no big deal to put it in.