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Old 08-07-2009, 02:14 PM
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Yes, that would probably do it.
 
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Originally Posted by dunerider650
just throw tow haul on it drives basically the same just without mds...get a magnaflow

Basically not the same. The shifts hang for way too long for my personal preference for just city driving. You also loose 4th and 5th gear for any highway driving.
Your better off going the O/D off route. No effect in shift quality and you only loose 5th gear.



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ALSO, BORLA is a very quiet exhaust. I'm sure you would hate MDS with a Magnaflow or a flowmaster. Borla isn't much louder than stock. It just has a deeper tone.
 
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ALSO, BORLA is a very quiet exhaust. I'm sure you would hate MDS with a Magnaflow or a flowmaster. Borla isn't much louder than stock. It just has a deeper tone.
Yep I got a borla on mine, it is relatively quiet under normal throttle conditions, and was very quiet yet deep when it was the only thing on the truck... now though, its quite a bit louder since I took off the resonated tips and changed the intake up bit, you get on it and you know its there. That being said, if you get the racing muffler, it sounds cleaner than a cutout but just as loud...
 

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[quote=dirtydog;1762954]Basically not the same. The shifts hang for way too long for my personal preference for just city driving. You also loose 4th and 5th gear for any highway driving.
Your better off going the O/D off route. No effect in shift quality and you only loose 5th gear.

Thats what everyone says...the od route left me revving to damn high for highway driving but when TH is on i dont notice much diff in shift points and my rpms are the same at highway cruising she still goes through all the gears to it seems??????
 
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I left the resonator on and put on an aeroturbine xl (with a resonator) and the note gets deeper when the mds cuts in.
 
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On the highway with the road and wind noise, the MDS isn't bad with the Magnaflow. Around town, it sounds really crappy.
OD off gives you 1-2-3 gears with normal shift pattern and no MDS
Tow haul gives you 1-2-3-4 with 2-3 and 4 shifts delayed and no MDS
Normal is 1-2-3-4-5 and MDS on.
 
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The choices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm not sure what to do....
 
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Personally, I think the stock pipe sounds good. I read an article awhile back about how much time was spent to engineer the HEMI MDS exhaust. I think they did it right.
 
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Originally Posted by truckin151
Yep I got a borla on mine, it is relatively quiet under normal throttle conditions, and was very quiet yet deep when it was the only thing on the truck... now though, its quite a bit louder since I took off the resonated tips and changed the intake up bit, you get on it and you know its there. That being said, if you get the racing muffler, it sounds cleaner than a cutout but just as loud...
Happen to know which series/size muffler you have on your truck?
 
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I've been back and forth on this issue myself about a thousand times. I have two resonators and a muffler on my truck. I have been thinking really hard about just replacing the muffler and leaving everything else stock in place.
 


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