Hi all,
I finally bought my dream truck. 1999 Ram 1500 sport 4x4 quad cab with a 5.9l engine and that purdy intense blue paint. I took it to the dealership and had them check everything out and it checked out decent. Loose steering intermediate shaft, loose left sway bar, frozen belt tensioner, and a bad catalytic converter and that's it. Everything is pretty cheap to fix except the cat. They want $950 for an original equipment cat, $50 for a couple of clamps, and $91 for labor. An aftermarket cat would cost $545 from the dealership. Since I'm wanna upgrade the exhaust system a little anyway (Flowmaster 50 series, maybe some headers) I was thinking about just replacing the cat with a magnaflow high flow cat. This could possibly get me some performance gains and save me about 200 bucks.
My questions are, is a magnaflow cat worth the money? Are there any O2 sensors that I have to worry about? Is it gonna start throwing codes because there's too much flow? Will it make my truck sound crappy and obnoxiously loud (with a 50 series muffler)? Am I gonna loose low end torque? If you can answer any of these questions I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.

 

well, I guess I just answered a few of my own questions. I crawled under the truck and looked at the cat and of course it's the most complicated cat I've ever seen. The Y pipe and the cat are integrated together and there's an O2 sensor right in the middle of it. So even if I do get a magnaflow it will still cost me $540 (according the magnaflow website) Still, are they worth the money?

 

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try ebay....

 

they cat is awesome made my truck rediculas loud. you can fin them on ebay for 80 bucks, and check out youtube to see what sound you like the best. got some pics of you baby . welcome to the forum , lots of great info on here . be sure to use the search engine also .

 

Thanks for the replies, I bought the one on ebay for 206 bucks with free shipping. I don't know how they are selling these things so cheap ($330 below retail?) so I hope I'm getting the one I need.

lastrights, what kind of exhaust set up do you have? I'm trying to avoid an obnoxiously loud truck (like my Dak) so I'm hoping a flowmaster 50 series SUV muffler will give it a nice sound without being too loud.

And I'll have pics up as soon as I have time to take a decent shot. It might be a while though, since it gets dark at 6:00 now.

 

did you get a magnaflow? i got mine from Summit for $160 total

 

CSX... Please post pics and info on fit, finish, and install. thinking of picking up the same deal....

 

+1.....really looking forward to the pics!!

 

Yeah I ordered the magnaflow part #23285. Here's a link

http://www.car-sound.com/02product/d...irectfit=23285

It should get here in a few days. I'll probably have the local shop install it for me (the dealer won't do it b/c of legal stuff). I just don't have the time/patience for something like this. I'll post pics as soon as I get it done.

 

They could be products that are alitte "warm" I Call them the "Fell off the Truck specials" I pick things up from time to time like this.. Remember its not what your know... Its who you know